Exact solution of non-Hermitian systems with generalized boundary conditions: size-dependent boundary effect and fragility of skin effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03781v2
• Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:54:03 GMT
• Title: Exact solution of non-Hermitian systems with generalized boundary conditions: size-dependent boundary effect and fragility of skin effect
• Authors: Cui-Xian Guo, Chun-Hui Liu, Xiao-Ming Zhao, Yanxia Liu, Shu Chen
• Abstract summary: Systems with non-Hermitian skin effects are very sensitive to imposed boundary conditions and lattice size. We show that non-Hermitian skin effects can survive when deviating from the open boundary condition. We also demonstrate that the non-Hermitian Su-Schreieffer-Heeger model exhibits a new phase diagram in the boundary critical line.
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• Abstract: Systems with non-Hermitian skin effects are very sensitive to the imposed boundary conditions and lattice size, and thus an important question is whether non-Hermitian skin effects can survive when deviating from the open boundary condition. To unveil the origin of boundary sensitivity, we present exact solutions for one-dimensional non-Hermitian models with generalized boundary conditions and study rigorously the interplay effect of lattice size and boundary terms. Besides the open boundary condition, we identify the existence of non-Hermitian skin effect when one of the boundary hopping terms vanishes. Apart from this critical line on the boundary parameter space, we find that the skin effect is fragile under any tiny boundary perturbation in the thermodynamic limit, although it can survive in a finite size system. Moreover, we demonstrate that the non-Hermitian Su-Schreieffer-Heeger model exhibits a new phase diagram in the boundary critical line, which is different from either open or periodical boundary case.

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