Non-Hermitian phase transition and eigenstate localization induced by asymmetric coupling

Abstract

We investigate a uniformly coupled non-Hermitian system with asymmetric coupling amplitude. The asymmetric coupling equals to a symmetric coupling threaded by an imaginary gauge field. In a closed configuration, the imaginary gauge field leads to an imaginary magnetic flux, which induces a non-Hermitian phase transition. For an open boundary, the imaginary gauge field results in an eigenstate localization. The eigenstates under Dirac and biorthogonal norms and the scaling laws are quantitatively investigated to show the affect of asymmetric coupling induced one-way amplification. However, the imaginary magnetic flux does not inevitably induce the non-Hermitian phase transition for systems without translation invariance, this is elucidated from the non-Hermitian phase transition in the non-Hermitian ring with a single coupling defect. Our findings provide insights into the non-Hermitian phase transition and one-way localization.

10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A

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