Transfer matrix study of the Anderson transition in non-Hermitian systems,Physical Review B

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Transfer matrix study of the Anderson transition in non-Hermitian systems
Physical Review B ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-24 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.104.104203
Xunlong Luo ₁ , Tomi Ohtsuki ₂ , Ryuichi Shindou _{3,

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Affiliation

The Anderson transition driven by non-Hermitian (NH) disorder has been extensively studied in recent years. In this paper, we present in-depth transfer matrix analyses of the Anderson transition in three NH systems, NH Anderson, U(1), and Peierls models in three-dimensional systems. The first model belongs to NH class

{AI}^{†}

, whereas the second and the third ones to NH class A. We first argue a general validity of the transfer matrix analysis in NH systems, and clarify the symmetry properties of the Lyapunov exponents, scattering (

S

) matrix and two-terminal conductance in these NH models. The unitarity of the

S

matrix is violated in NH systems, where the two-terminal conductance can take arbitrarily large values. Nonetheless, we show that the transposition symmetry of a Hamiltonian leads to the symmetric nature of the

S

matrix as well as the reciprocal symmetries of the Lyapunov exponents and conductance in certain ways in these NH models. Using the transfer matrix method, we construct a phase diagram of the NH Anderson model for various complex single-particle energy

E

. At

E = 0

, the phase diagram as well as critical properties become completely symmetric with respect to an exchange of real and imaginary parts of on-site NH random potentials. We show that the symmetric nature at

E = 0

is a general feature for any NH bipartite-lattice models with the on-site NH random potentials. Finite size scaling data are fitted by polynomial functions, from which we determine the critical exponent

ν

at different single-particle energies and system parameters of the NH models. We conclude that the critical exponents of the NH class

{AI}^{†}

and the NH class A are

ν = 1.19 \pm 0.01

and

ν = 1.00 \pm 0.04

, respectively. In the NH models, a distribution of the two-terminal conductance is not Gaussian. Instead, it contains small fractions of huge conductance values, which come from rare-event states with huge transmissions amplified by on-site NH disorders. Nonetheless, a geometric mean of the conductance enables the finite-size scaling analysis. We show that the critical exponents obtained from the conductance analysis are consistent with those from the localization length in these three NH models.

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