Non-Hermitian Squeezed Polarons

Abstract

Recent experimental breakthroughs in non-Hermitian ultracold atomic lattices have dangled tantalizing prospects in realizing exotic, hitherto unreported, many-body non-Hermitian quantum phenomena. In this work, we discover and propose an experimental platform for a radically different non-Hermitian phenomenon dubbed polaron squeezing. It is marked by a dipole-like accumulation of fermions arising from an interacting impurity in a background of non-Hermitian reciprocity-breaking hoppings. We computed their spatial density and found that, unlike Hermitian polarons which are symmetrically localized around impurities, non-Hermitian squeezed polarons localize asymmetrically in the direction opposite to conventional non-Hermitian pumping and non-perturbatively modify the entire spectrum, despite having a manifestly local profile. We investigated their time evolution and found that, saliently, they appear almost universally in the long-time steady state, unlike Hermitian polarons which only exist in the ground state. In our numerics, we also found that, unlike well-known topological or skin localized states, squeezed polarons exist in the bulk, independently of boundary conditions. Our findings could inspire the realization of many-body states in ultracold atomic setups, where a squeezed polaron can be readily detected and characterized by imaging the spatial fermionic density.

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