Negative superinflating bipartite fluctuations near exceptional points in $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric models

Abstract

We investigate bipartite particle number fluctuations near the rank-$2$ exceptional points (EPs) of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models. Beyond a conformal field theory of massless fermions, fluctuations or equivalently compressibility is negative definite and exhibits superinflation in leading order at EPs, due to the defectiveness in the biorthogonal Hilbert space. Associated with the bipartite von Neumann entanglement entropy, a parameter in an anomalous correspondence referencing from a purely non-Hermitian limit helps characterize two inequivalent EP sets. Our work paves the way for understanding the singularity of fluctuations relevant to EPs, more promisingly detectable in experiments.

13 pages, 3 + 5 figures