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Many-Body Non-Hermitian Skin Effect for Multipoles.
Jacopo Gliozzi1, Giuseppe De Tomasi1,2, Taylor L Hughes1
1Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, <a href="https://ror.org/047426m28">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a>, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|October 11, 2024
Summary
The non-Hermitian skin effect in dipole-conserving systems leads to charges localizing at both boundaries, creating a quadrupole moment. This reveals new quantum indicators for charge and entanglement propagation in such systems.
Area of Science:
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Quantum Mechanics
- Topological Physics
Background:
- The non-Hermitian skin effect typically localizes charges at one boundary in 1D systems.
- Understanding charge localization is crucial for designing novel quantum devices.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect in 1D systems with conserved dipole and higher moments.
- Identify new phenomena and quantum indicators associated with multipole-conserving skin effects.
Main Methods:
- Utilized field theoretical arguments.
- Performed lattice model calculations.
- Employed numerical and analytical techniques.
Main Results:
- Demonstrated that m-pole conserving systems generate an (m+1)th multipole moment.
- Showcased dipole-conserving skin effect localizing charges at both boundaries, forming a quadrupole moment.
- Identified Fock-space localization and area-law entanglement entropy scaling in steady states.
Conclusions:
- The non-Hermitian skin effect exhibits distinct behaviors in multipole-conserving systems.
- Charge and entanglement propagation dynamics are influenced by multipole moments.
- Fock-space localization and entanglement entropy scaling serve as robust quantum indicators.
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