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Title: Proposal for Observing Yang-Lee Criticality in Rydberg Atomic Arrays
(Submitted on 13 Feb 2023 (v1), last revised 28 Aug 2023 (this version, v2))
Abstract: Yang-Lee edge singularities (YLES) are the edges of the partition function zeros of an interacting spin model in the space of complex control parameters. They play an important role in understanding non-Hermitian phase transitions in many-body physics, as well as characterizing the corresponding nonunitary criticality. Even though such partition function zeroes have been measured in dynamical experiments where time acts as the imaginary control field, experimentally demonstrating such YLES criticality with a physical imaginary field has remained elusive due to the difficulty of physically realizing non-Hermitian many-body models. We provide a protocol for observing the YLES by detecting kinked dynamical magnetization responses due to broken PT symmetry, thus enabling the physical probing of nonunitary phase transitions in nonequilibrium settings. In particular, scaling analyses based on our nonunitary time evolution circuit with matrix product states accurately recover the exponents uniquely associated with the corresponding nonunitary CFT. We provide an explicit proposal for observing YLES criticality in Floquet quenched Rydberg atomic arrays with laser-induced loss, which paves the way towards a universal platform for simulating non-Hermitian many-body dynamical phenomena.
Submission history
From: Ruizhe Shen [view email][v1] Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:48:40 GMT (4368kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:20:21 GMT (15332kb,D)
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