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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 102, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.065703
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- W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research
- NSF [PHY05-51164]
We analyze a quantum walk on a bipartite one-dimensional lattice, in which the particle can decay whenever it visits one of the two sublattices. The corresponding non-Hermitian tight-binding problem with a complex potential for the decaying sites exhibits two different phases, distinguished by a winding number defined in terms of the Bloch eigenstates in the Brillouin zone. We find that the mean displacement of a particle initially localized on one of the nondecaying sites can be expressed in terms of the winding number, and is therefore quantized as an integer, changing from zero to one at the critical point. We show that the topological transition is relevant for a variety of experimental settings. The quantized behavior can be used to distinguish coherent from incoherent dynamics.
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