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Yu-Guo Liu1,2, Lu Xu1,2, Zhi Li3,4,5
1School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In this work, we investigate the quantum phase transition in a non-HermitianXYspin chain. The phase diagram shows that the critical points of Ising phase transition expand into a critical transition zone after introducing a non-Hermitian effect. By analyzing the non-Hermitian gap and long-range correlation function, one can distinguish different phases by means of different gap features and decay properties of correlation function, a tricky problem in traditionalXYmodel. Furthermore, the results reveal the relationship among different regions of the phase diagram, non-Hermitian energy gap and long-range correlation function.
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