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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 104, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.022218
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The study obtained the PT threshold for a one-dimensional, finite Kitaev chain and identified a rich phase diagram for the threshold, which can be qualitatively understood in relation to the band structure of the Hermitian Kitaev model. The findings include a re-entrant PT-symmetric phase bounded by second-order exceptional point contours for an even chain with zero on-site potential.
Parity-time (PT) symmetric systems are classical, gain-loss systems whose dynamics are governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with exceptional-point (EP) degeneracies. The eigenvalues of a PT -symmetric Hamiltonian change from real to complex conjugates at a critical value of gain-loss strength that is called the PT breaking threshold. Here, we obtain the PT threshold for a one-dimensional, finite Kitaev chain-a prototype for a p-wave superconductor-in the presence of a single pair of gain and loss potentials as a function of the superconducting order parameter, on-site potential, and the distance between the gain and loss sites. In addition to a robust, nonlocal threshold, we find a rich phase diagram for the threshold that can be qualitatively understood in terms of the band structure of the Hermitian Kitaev model. In particular, for an even chain with zero on-site potential, we find a re-entrant PT -symmetric phase bounded by second-order EP contours. Our numerical results are supplemented by analytical calculations for small system sizes.
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