Dephasing-induced distinct mobility edges in a dimerized off-diagonal quasicrystal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17937v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:58:24 GMT
• Title: Dephasing-induced distinct mobility edges in a dimerized off-diagonal quasicrystal
• Abstract summary: Conventional theory suggests that dephasing and decoherence should disrupt localization and facilitate transport.<n>In this work, we investigate localization behaviors in a dimerized off-diagonal Aubry-Andre-Harper quasicrystal subject to on-site pure dephasing.<n>We numerically verify the coexistence of fully extended, multifractal critical, and localized regions within the relaxation spectrum of the dissipative system, and construct the global dissipative phase diagram.
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• Abstract: Anderson localization and the mobility edge (ME) have been extensively studied in isolated aperiodic systems. Conventional theory suggests that dephasing and decoherence should disrupt localization and facilitate transport. In this work, we investigate localization behaviors in a dimerized off-diagonal Aubry-Andre-Harper (AAH) quasicrystal subject to on-site pure dephasing. In the strong-dephasing limit, we apply adiabatic elimination within the Lindblad master equation framework to derive an effective classical Markov transition matrix that governs the dissipative relaxation dynamics. Counterintuitively, we demonstrate that pure dephasing can induce distinct MEs, including both conventional MEs separating extended and localized states and anomalous MEs separating multifractal critical states from localized states, even when all eigenstates of the original closed coherent system are delocalized or multifractal. Using fractal dimension finite-size scaling, wave-packet spreading dynamics, and energy spectrum statistics, we numerically verify the coexistence of fully extended, multifractal critical, and localized regions within the relaxation spectrum of the dissipative system, and construct the global dissipative phase diagram. These findings reveal that dephasing can see as a powerful mechanism for controlling localization transitions, thus enhancing our understanding of dissipative quasicrystal systems.

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