Krylov complexity, mode-resolved complexity and entanglement entropy across phase transitions in the non-Hermitian extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04659v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:27:32 GMT
• Title: Krylov complexity, mode-resolved complexity and entanglement entropy across phase transitions in the non-Hermitian extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
• Abstract summary: In the presence of small non-Hermiticity, exceptional points emerge in pairs near the topological phase boundaries of the Hermitian limit.<n>We show that the spread complexity, and long-time spread complexity as well as entanglement entropy can effectively signal phase transitions.
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• Abstract: We investigate phase transitions in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model with next-nearest-neighbor hoppings and an imaginary staggered chemical potential. In the presence of small non-Hermiticity, exceptional points emerge in pairs from the gap-closing momenta near the topological phase boundaries of the Hermitian limit. Utilizing the Krylov spread complexity and entanglement entropy, we analyze two dynamical protocols: (i) preparing the non-Hermitian ground state via a unitary transformation, and (ii) evolving the system under the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that the spread complexity, and long-time spread complexity as well as entanglement entropy can effectively signal phase transitions in the first and second protocols, respectively. To unravel the detailed structure of the transitions, we introduce the momentum-resolved complexity that identifies the characteristic modes and tracks their evolution with the driving parameter. In the regime where the system possesses a purely imaginary spectrum, we further identify dynamical phases based on the saturation behavior of the spread complexity. The entanglement entropy is also found to exhibit similar saturation behavior, thereby providing a more experimentally accessible probe of the dynamical phases.

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