Analytical mobility edge in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices with next-nearest-neighbor hopping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10996v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:44:10 GMT
• Title: Analytical mobility edge in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices with next-nearest-neighbor hopping
• Abstract summary: We investigate localization transitions and spectral topology in a one-dimensional non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry-André model.<n>By extending the Fermi-surface point-matching method to nonreciprocal hopping, we derive a closed-form expression for the energy-dependent mobility edge.
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• Abstract: We investigate localization transitions and spectral topology in a one-dimensional non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry-André model in which both the nearest-neighbor and the next-nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes are nonreciprocal. By extending the Fermi-surface point-matching method to nonreciprocal hopping, we derive a closed-form expression for the energy-dependent mobility edge in which the two nonreciprocity parameters are absorbed into exponentially renormalized effective hopping amplitudes. The mobility edge forms a single parabola in the energy--potential plane: nearest-neighbor nonreciprocity rigidly shifts the localization boundary toward stronger potentials, whereas next-nearest-neighbor nonreciprocity reduces the curvature of the boundary and thereby broadens the energy window in which extended and localized states coexist. Exact diagonalization confirms the analytical boundary for purely nearest-neighbor, purely next-nearest-neighbor, and combined nonreciprocity, and recovers the known Hermitian mobility edge in the reciprocal limit. We further analyze the spectral topology under periodic boundary conditions and show that the spectral winding numbers evaluated at base energies near the two band edges directly bracket the mixed phase: the winding number at the lower band edge drops when the mobility edge enters the spectrum and the first localized states appear, while the winding number at the upper band edge drops when the last extended states localize, delineating the full potential-strength window over which extended and localized states coexist. These results provide a compact analytical framework that connects energy-dependent localization, spectral topology, and nonreciprocity in quasiperiodic lattices, and they are directly testable in photonic, atomic, and electrical-circuit platforms.

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