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Biorthogonal quench dynamics of entanglement and quantum geometry in PT-symmetric non-Hermitian systems

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Pith's one-line read The central claim is that a quench into the PT-broken phase of a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian produces exponentially growing off-diagonal terms in the biorthogonal density matrix, making observables, quantum geometry, and TTC…

desk verdict A genuinely new result on linear decay of TTC entropy in free-fermion PT-broken quenches, wrapped in a paper with a sign inconsistency and a sketchy derivation. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.20155 v1 pith:AZ3BAM4J submitted 2025-07-27 cond-mat.str-el quant-ph

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The reading

This paper studies what happens after a sudden quench into the PT-broken phase of a parity-time-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, the regime where energy levels come in complex-conjugate pairs; it uses the biorthogonal formalism, which keeps both left and right eigenstates and preserves the trace of the density matrix. It claims that the biorthogonal density matrix develops exponentially growing off-diagonal components, so physical observables, the quantum metric tensor, and the Tu-Tzeng-Chang (TTC) entanglement entropy generically grow exponentially, at a rate set by the imaginary part of the energy spectrum. The exception is non-interacting fermions, where the TTC entropy decays linearly in time because the biorthogonal reduced density matrix has an approximate plus-minus spectral symmetry. The significance is that this yields a clean dynamical distinction between interacting and free-fermion non-Hermitian systems and ties entanglement growth to PT-symmetry breaking after a quench.

What carries the argument

The biorthogonal density matrix $\rho_{RL}=|\psi_R\rangle\langle\psi_L|$ is the central object: built from right and left eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, it is non-Hermitian and can have negative eigenvalues, yet it stays trace-preserving. Its long-time expansion in Eq. (15), controlled by the pair of eigenmodes with largest and smallest imaginary energies, is what produces the exponentially growing off-diagonal terms. The second load-bearing mechanism is the approximate spectral symmetry of the biorthogonal reduced density matrix in free-fermion systems—its eigenvalues come in near $\pm\lambda$ pairs—which is what converts the generic exponential growth of the TTC entropy into linear decay.

What would settle it

Compute the TTC entropy after a PT-broken quench from an initial state chosen to have zero overlap with the dominant biorthogonal pair, or tune the post-quench Hamiltonian exactly to an exceptional point where the two dominant eigenvectors coalesce; if the paper's mechanism is correct, the exponential or linear asymptotics in Eqs. (28) and (34) should break down because the expansion in Eq. (15) is no longer valid.

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Core claim

In the PT-broken case, the paper's central claim is that the long-time biorthogonal density matrix has the structure $\rho_{RL}(t)\to P_0+e^{E_I t}P_1+e^{2E_I t}P_2$ with $\mathrm{Tr}P_0=1$ and $\mathrm{Tr}P_1=\mathrm{Tr}P_2=0$: the trace is preserved while individual off-diagonal components grow. This happens because the right state is dominated by the eigenmode with the largest imaginary energy, $|R_{\max}\rangle$, while the left state is dominated by the eigenmode with the smallest imaginary energy, $\langle L_{\min}|$; their biorthogonal inner product is zero, so their outer product contributes an off-diagonal term proportional to $e^{2E_I t}$ without affecting the trace. For generic interacting systems the TTC entropy consequently grows as $S_A^{TTC}\sim -2E_I t - e^{2E_I t}\mathrm{Tr}(P_A^2\ln|P_A^2|)$. For non-interacting fermions the reduced density matrix can be built from the two-point correlation matrix, and its eigenvalues come in approximate $\pm\lambda$ pairs; that approximate spectral symmetry turns the exponential growth into linear decay, $S_A^{TTC}\sim -2E_I t$. The paper confirms both behaviors in the Yang-Lee model and the non-Hermitian XXZ chain.

Load-bearing premise

The argument assumes the post-quench Hamiltonian is diagonalizable and that the initial state has nonzero overlap with the eigenmode pair whose imaginary energies are largest and smallest, so that the single-pair asymptotic expansion really dominates; the non-diagonalizable exceptional-point limit is not treated.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • In the PT-broken phase, observables and quantum metric tensor components grow as $e^{2E_I t}$, so the imaginary part of the energy spectrum controls the rate of dynamical amplification.
  • For generic interacting systems the TTC entropy grows exponentially in time, while the usual right-right entanglement entropy and the SVD entropy saturate to constants; both saturating entropies show a volume-law to area-law transition at the level crossing.
  • For non-interacting fermions the TTC entropy instead decays linearly as $-2E_I t$, making late-time entropy dynamics a sharp diagnostic that distinguishes free from interacting post-quench Hamiltonians.
  • Quenches into the PT-unbroken phase remain oscillatory, so the onset of exponential growth in any of these quantities acts as a dynamical detector of the PT transition.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper leaves implicit that the TTC entropy itself, because its growth rate is fixed by $E_I$, could serve as a dynamical order parameter for PT-symmetry breaking in experiments where the spectrum is not directly measurable.
  • The approximate plus-minus spectral symmetry responsible for linear decay is a property of Gaussian free-fermion states; by extension, analogous linear decay may appear in other free-particle or integrable settings, a testable prediction beyond the two models studied here.
  • Because the biorthogonal and right-right conventions give such different late-time entropies, experimental comparisons of the two could discriminate which density-matrix convention describes a given open-system setup, a question the paper raises but does not settle.
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Summary. The paper studies sudden quenches into PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians using the biorthogonal density matrix rho_RL. It derives asymptotic forms for observables, the non-Hermitian quantum metric, and three entanglement measures in PT-unbroken and PT-broken cases. The central claim is that a PT-broken quench produces exponential growth in generic interacting systems, while the TTC entropy of non-interacting fermions decays linearly as S_TTC ~ -2 E_I t, attributed to an approximate spectral symmetry of the biorthogonal reduced density matrix. The claims are benchmarked numerically on the Yang-Lee model and the non-Hermitian XXZ chain.

Significance. If correct, the distinction between exponential TTC growth in interacting systems and linear decay in free-fermion systems is a clean and falsifiable signature of interaction effects in non-Hermitian quench dynamics, and the proposed spectral-symmetry mechanism is conceptually appealing. The paper also gives a useful comparison among TTC, SVD, and right-right entanglement entropies and provides explicit asymptotic formulas, Eqs. (15), (28), and (34), against which numerics can be checked. The use of two distinct models and the clear Table I summary are strengths. However, several load-bearing derivations are incomplete or currently incorrect, so the central results are not yet established at the level required for publication.

major comments (5)
  1. [Sec. III.C, Eq. (22)] The claimed analytical solution for the quantum metric is not the correct derivative of the time-evolution operator. For a time-independent, parameter-dependent Hamiltonian, ∂_{hz} e^{-iHt} is not -i(∂H/∂hz)t e^{-iHt} unless [H, ∂H/∂hz]=0; the correct expression is a time-ordered integral. Since the paper later invokes [H, ∂H/∂hz]≠0 as the mechanism for exponential growth, the formulas for χ^RL_hzhz, χ^RL_hzt, and χ^RL_thz need to be re-derived before the quantum-geometry claims in Fig. 3 are supported.
  2. [Sec. V.A, Eq. (34)] The limit S_TTC(t)→-2E_I t replaces the sum in Eq. (33) by a single correlation-matrix eigenvalue without proving that only one eigenvalue grows at the maximal rate. If C(t)∼e^{2E_I t}C_∞ with rank M, each nonzero eigenvalue of C_∞ contributes approximately -2E_I t, giving an asymptotic slope -2M E_I t; the abstract and Fig. 5 specifically assert -2E_I t. The paper neither computes M for the non-interacting XXZ chain nor excludes other eigenvalues with positive growth exponents, and it does not address the branch structure of ln|1-ν| for complex ν. This is a load-bearing step for the central free-fermion claim.
  3. [Sec. IV.A, Eq. (28)] The conclusion that the TTC entropy grows exponentially in the interacting PT-broken case depends on the sign of -Tr(P_A^2 ln|P_A^2|). Since Tr P_A^2 = 0 and P_A^2 is non-Hermitian, this quantity is not manifestly positive; for example, a pair of eigenvalues ±a gives zero, and other spectra can give either sign. The derivation in Eqs. (26)-(28) therefore does not by itself establish exponential growth, and the sign should be proved or verified for the Yang-Lee model.
  4. [Sec. II.B, Eq. (15)] The long-time expansion assumes that the largest imaginary part E_I is non-degenerate and that the overlaps c_max and c_min of the initial biorthogonal state with |R_max⟩ and ⟨L_min| are nonzero. The text states that the initial state is composed of contributions from all eigenmodes, but this is an assumption rather than a demonstrated property, and the exceptional-point limit is not discussed. Special initial states or a non-diagonalizable Hamiltonian invalidate the single-mode dominance used in all subsequent asymptotic formulas.
  5. [Sec. V.A, spectral symmetry discussion] The approximate spectral symmetry is invoked as the origin of the distinct free-fermion behavior, but it is only described qualitatively. The statement that the RDM eigenvalues form a set {α_i e^{2E_I t}, -α_i e^{2E_I t}+ϵ} needs a precise bound on ϵ and a proof that the error terms do not produce exponential contributions to S_TTC. Without this, the claim that the symmetry is broken for interacting systems remains an observation rather than a demonstrated mechanism.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Table I] The TTC entropy row states 'linear growth' for free-fermion systems, while the abstract, Sec. V, and Fig. 5 all report linear decay; this inconsistency should be corrected.
  2. [Sec. II.A, first paragraph] The sentence 'If the post-quench Hamiltonian is in PT-unbroken phase, some of the eigen-energies come in complex-conjugation pairs' should refer to the PT-broken phase, since the immediately preceding sentence correctly states that all eigen-energies are real in the PT-unbroken phase.
  3. [Eqs. (27)-(28) and (34)] The notation for the imaginary part of the energy is inconsistent: E_1 and E_I are used interchangeably, and the symbol ν_{δ0}' in Eq. (34) is not defined clearly.
  4. [Throughout] There are several typographical errors, including 'biothogonal' in the Table I caption, 'paramter' in the Fig. 5 caption, and 'Y ANG-LEE' in the Sec. III heading.

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No significant circularity: the quench dynamics results are derived from standard biorthogonal and free-fermion formalisms, not from fitted inputs or self-citation chains.

full rationale

The central derivations are self-contained: Eq. (15) follows from the eigenbasis expansion of the biorthogonal density matrix; Eq. (28) is a direct asymptotic expansion of the TTC entropy; Eqs. (33)-(34) use the standard Peschel correlation-matrix formula. No parameters are fitted to data to produce the linear-decay prediction; the slope -2EI is set by the post-quench spectrum. The TTC entropy is defined in the authors' prior work (Ref. [29]) and the biorthogonal/correlation-matrix formulas cite Refs. [19,54,56,57], but these are definitions and known identities, not load-bearing evidence for the paper's new claims. The 'approximate spectral symmetry' in Sec. V.A is an algebraic consequence of the pairing {nu, 1-nu} for large nu, and the interaction-induced breaking is tested numerically, so it is an observation rather than an input. The derivation is not circular. A separate rigor concern, not circularity, is that Eq. (34) does not justify why a single dominant correlation eigenvalue controls the asymptotic slope, and Table I's 'linear growth' conflicts with the 'linear decay' stated in the abstract, Sec. V, and Fig. 5.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper uses standard biorthogonal quantum mechanics, the Gaussian form of reduced density matrices for free fermions, and the correlation-matrix formula for entanglement entropy. No free parameters are fit to produce the predictions; model parameters are chosen for numerical convenience. No new entities are introduced. The main unstated premise is the validity of the single-mode asymptotic expansion in the PT-broken phase.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Biorthogonal quantum mechanics with right and left evolution under e^{-iHt} and e^{-iH†t} provides the correct probabilistic framework and trace-preserving density matrix.
    Invoked in Sec. II A and used throughout; based on Ref. 18 (Brody).
  • standard math The reduced density matrix of a non-interacting fermionic system is Gaussian and its TTC entropy is obtained from the two-point correlation matrix C_ij via Eq. (33).
    Standard result (Peschel, Refs. 54,55) extended to non-Hermitian biorthogonal systems in Refs. 19,56,57.
  • domain assumption At long times a single biorthogonal eigenmode pair dominates the dynamics (Eqs. 11-12), with trace constraints Tr(P1)=Tr(P2)=0.
    Used to derive Eq. (15) and the exponential growth. Assumes diagonalizability and nonzero overlap; exceptional points are not treated.

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We explore the quench dynamics of PT-symmetric non-Hermitian systems by utilizing the biorthogonal formalism. We analyze quench dynamics of observable quantities, the quantum geometric tensor, and various entanglement quantities, including the entanglement entropy, the SVD entropy, and the Tu-Tzeng-Chang entropy. Our results show that a sudden quench into a PT-broken phase generally leads to exponential growth in these quantities, driven by the biorthogonal density matrix's non-positivity. In contrast to generic interacting systems, we observe a surprising linear decay in the TTC entropy for non-interacting fermionic systems. This finding originates from the approximate spectral symmetry of the biorthogonal reduced density matrix, and we confirm our findings using the Yang-Lee and non-Hermitian XXZ models.

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