Fidelity and criticality in the nonreciprocal Aubry-André-Harper model

¹ College of Physics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Nanjing, 211106, China
² Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Materials and Physics (NUAA), MIIT - Nanjing, 211106, China

Received: 14 November 2024
Accepted: 10 January 2025

Abstract

We study the critical behaviors of the ground and first-excited states in the one-dimensional nonreciprocal Aubry-André-Harper (AAH) model using both the self-normal and biorthogonal fidelity susceptibilities. We demonstrate that fidelity susceptibility serves as a probe for the phase transition in the nonreciprocal AAH model. For ground states, characterized by real eigenenergies across the entire regime, both fidelity susceptibilities near the critical points scale as N², akin to the Hermitian AAH model. However, for the first-excited states, the fidelity susceptibilities exhibit distinct scaling laws, contingent upon whether the lattice consists of even or odd sites. For even lattices, both the self-normal and biorthogonal fidelity susceptibilities near the critical points continue to scale as N². In contrast, for odd lattices, the biorthogonal fidelity susceptibilities diverge, while the self-normal fidelity susceptibilities exhibit linear behavior, indicating a novel scaling law.