Non-Hermiticity-induced reentrant localization in a quasiperiodic lattice

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate that the non-Hermiticity can induce reentrant localization in a generalized quasiperiodic lattice. Specifically, by considering a nonreciprocal dimerized lattice with staggered quasiperiodic disorder, we find that the localization transition can appear twice by increasing the disorder strength. We also unravel a multi-complex-real eigenenergy transition, whose transition points coincide with those in the localization phase transitions. Moreover, the impacts of boundary conditions on the localization properties have been clarified. Finally, we study the wavepacket dynamics in different parameter regimes, which offers an experimentally feasible route to detect the reentrant localization.

Keywords

• disorder
• localization
• non-Hermiticity
• skin effect