Emergence of Imaginary Time Crystals in the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19315v1
• Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:39:45 GMT
• Title: Emergence of Imaginary Time Crystals in the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
• Authors: E. Slootman, L. Eek, C. Morais Smith, R. Arouca,
• Abstract summary: Parity-time symmetry constrains the spectrum of non-Hermitian systems to be either real or come in complex conjugate pairs.<n>We establish the existence of an imaginary time crystal phase, an imaginary time analogue of a time crystal.<n>In particular, the topological edge states of this system exhibit oscillations that are present for bosons.
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• Abstract: Parity-time symmetry constrains the spectrum of non-Hermitian systems to be either real or come in complex conjugate pairs. The transition between a symmetry-preserving phase with real energies and a symmetry-broken phase with complex energies is marked by exceptional points, one of the hallmarks of non-Hermitian systems. Because of these properties, these systems are widely studied, both theoretically and experimentally. In this work, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of the gain and loss Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model for both bosons and fermions, and establish the existence of an imaginary time crystal phase, an imaginary time analogue of a time crystal. This phase occurs when there is a resonance condition between the Matsubara frequencies and the spectrum of the system, making the Green's function of the system oscillate in imaginary time with the Matsubara frequency. We show that this phase appears in the symmetry-broken region. In particular, the topological edge states of this system exhibit oscillations that are present for bosons. Finally, we discuss the applicability of our results for experiments. We examine signatures of these phases in terms of correlation functions in real time and oscillations in thermodynamic potential in inverse temperature $\beta$, and explore possible experimental platforms to realize this system.

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