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Jun-Jun Pang

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Interplay between non-Fermi liquid and non-Hermiticity: A multi-method study of non-Hermitian multichannel Kondo model

Non-Hermitian multichannel Kondo problems host both non-Fermi liquid and non-Hermitian physics, which provide a prototypical model to explore exotic collective quantum phenomena driven by the two different ingredients. Here, we first propose an experimental setup that realizes this model with exact channel symmetry as well as a controllable PT symmetry. Then, we perform a multi-method study of this model, focusing on the low-energy spectrum, the thermodynamic quantities, and the transport properties associated with different fixed points. Using the Bethe ansatz approach, we identify existence of the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov-like state previously found in the non-Hermitian single-channel Kondo model. Then, based on non-Hermitian numerical renormalization group calculations, we reveal clear numerical signatures of the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov state emerging in the relatively strong non-Hermiticity regime of the PT-asymmetric model. Furthermore, our boundary conformal field theory, which is found to be applicable for the PT-symmetric model, uncovers an anomalous temperature dependence of the Kondo conductance, which is beyond conventional Hermitian Kondo systems.

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Non-Hermiticity Induced Universal Anomalies in Kondo Conductance

Strong correlation, when combined with dissipation in open systems, can lead to a variety of exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we study nontrivial interplays between non-Fermi liquid behaviors emerging from strong correlation and non-Hermiticity arising from open systems. We propose a practical physical setup that realizes a non-Hermitian multichannel Kondo model. We identify a weak-coupling local moment fixed point and a strong-coupling non-Fermi liquid fixed point under PT symmetry, both are enriched by the non-Hermitian effect. Remarkably, universal unconventional Kondo conductance behaviors are found for both cases, which are distinct from all previously studied Kondo systems. Particularly, we show that an anomalous upturn of conductance could take place with increasing the temperature, originating from the interplay between non-Fermi liquid and non-Hermiticity. Our results identify a novel class of transport phenomena unrecognized before, driven by intertwined effects of correlation and dissipation.

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Chiral Current-Carrying High-Energy Eigenstates

Typical finite-energy-density eigenstates of nonintegrable systems are expected to obey the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and to reproduce thermal local observables. In integrable systems, typical states are instead finite-entropy Bethe macrostates, or generalized Gibbs ensembles, with smooth quasiparticle occupations. Here we show that the spin-$\tfrac12$ XXX Heisenberg chain contains an exactly solvable exception. By biasing mutually commuting conserved charges, we use the ground state of a selector Hamiltonian to construct rare eigenstates of the undeformed XXX Hamiltonian. These states are atypical ordered, chiral, current-carrying, critical, zero-entropy Bethe macrostates at tunable XXX energy density. They lie outside the finite-entropy manifold dominating generalized Gibbs ensembles, yet remain exact XXX eigenstates with sharp Bethe occupations, finite scalar chirality, nonthermal local observables, and gapless Luttinger-liquid correlations. A finite-interval thermodynamic Bethe ansatz reveals an asymmetric chiral Bethe sea whose zero-field limit selects an extensive spin sector through $SU(2)$ symmetry breaking. A commuting exchange bias moves the same ordered macrostate through the full thermodynamic XXX energy band, including the Hilbert-space trace center. Finite-size DMRG and exact-diagonalization benchmarks indicate that the magnetochiral signatures persist under weak integrability breaking over prethermal time scales. The construction provides a controlled integrable realization of ETH-violating, scar-like large-deviation eigenstates and a route to ordered critical matter deep inside a many-body spectrum.

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