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Sparse random losses in a photonic lattice produce stretched-exponential absorption from rare loss-free segments, not exceptional points, and an optimal loss rate that maximizes absorption.

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Sparse quenched losses in photonic lattices yield Griffiths-type stretched-exponential absorption and a non-monotonic optimal loss rate set by rare loss-free domains.

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load-bearing objection Solid, clean mapping of Griffiths rare-region physics onto measurable anomalous absorption in sparse-loss photonic lattices; new stretched-exponential law and optimal-loss minimum are real and well-supported.

arxiv 2607.03205 v1 pith:M66GP24J submitted 2026-07-03 physics.optics cond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph

Griffiths Anomalous Absorption in Sparse-Loss Photonic Lattices

Stefano Longhi This is my paper
classification physics.optics cond-mat.stat-mechquant-ph
keywords Griffiths physicsanomalous absorptionsparse-loss photonic latticesrare-region effectsstretched-exponential decaynon-Hermitian transportLifshitz-tail statessynthetic temporal lattices
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This paper shows that when optical loss is placed sparsely and randomly on a one-dimensional waveguide lattice, the transmitted power under uniform illumination does not follow ordinary exponential decay. Instead, after a short transient, it decays as a stretched exponential whose form is fixed by the statistics of rare, long stretches that contain no loss at all. Those rare segments act as weakly leaking photonic channels whose lifetimes grow rapidly with length; the competition between how rare a long segment is and how slowly it leaks produces the characteristic (Jz)^{1/4} exponent in the exponent of the transmittance. At fixed length the same rare-region physics also makes the total absorption non-monotonic in the loss strength: there is an optimal intermediate loss rate near the coupling constant that maximizes absorption, because stronger loss actually repels light from the absorbing sites and reduces leakage. The author argues that this mechanism is universal for binary quenched dissipation, is distinct from exceptional-point or interference effects, and can be observed in existing fiber-loop synthetic lattices.

Core claim

In a large one-dimensional tight-binding lattice with binary quenched loss (each site has loss rate γ with probability p ≪ 1), the transmittance under uniform excitation obeys the Griffiths stretched-exponential law T(z, γ) ∼ (Jz)^{3/8} exp(-C (Jz)^{1/4}), where the constant C is set by the statistics of rare loss-free domains; at fixed propagation distance the same rare-region leakage rates produce a non-monotonic T(γ) that is minimized near γ ∼ J.

What carries the argument

The continuum average over loss-free domains of length ℓ, T(z,γ) ≈ p^{2} ∫ dℓ ℓ exp(-ℓ/ξ - A J z / ℓ^{3}), whose saddle point at large z yields the universal stretched-exponential form; ξ is the mean domain length fixed by p and A encodes the algebraic leakage rate λ_ℓ ∼ 1/ℓ^{3} of a finite loss-free segment.

Load-bearing premise

The leakage rate of a loss-free stretch of length ℓ is assumed to fall exactly as 1/ℓ^{3} with a single adjustable prefactor that stays accurate across the moderate-to-strong loss regime used in the numerics.

What would settle it

Measure the long-distance transmittance in a large sparse-loss lattice (or fiber-loop synthetic lattice) and check whether ln[T/(Jz)^{3/8}] versus (Jz)^{1/4} is linear with the predicted slope set by p and γ/J; a clear deviation from that slope or from the non-monotonic T(γ) minimum near γ ∼ J would falsify the rare-region claim.

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Summary. The manuscript shows that a one-dimensional tight-binding photonic lattice with binary quenched loss (sites of strength γ with probability p ≪ 1) exhibits Griffiths rare-region absorption under uniform excitation. After a short transient the transmittance is controlled by long loss-free domains whose leakage rates scale as λ_ℓ ∝ J/ℓ^{3}; the continuum average over the exponential domain-length distribution yields the stretched-exponential law T(z,γ)∼(Jz)^{3}/^{8} exp(-C(Jz)^{1}/^{4}) together with a non-monotonic T(γ) that is minimized near γ∼ J. The same phenomenology is recovered in a synthetic fiber-loop lattice. The effect is attributed solely to rare-region statistics, not to exceptional points or coherent interference.

Significance. If correct, the work supplies a clean, experimentally realistic optical platform for Griffiths physics and a disorder-based route to optimize absorption without fine-tuned exceptional points. The analytic saddle-point derivation of the universal 1/4 exponent, the explicit connection between Lifshitz-tail modes and rare-region leakage, and the concrete fiber-loop proposal (N=100, ensemble averaging already demonstrated in the literature) are genuine strengths. The result is therefore of clear interest to both non-Hermitian photonics and the broader rare-region community.

minor comments (4)
  1. The continuum integral (4) and the single prefactor κ that absorbs higher-mode leakage are introduced without a short quantitative bound on the error relative to the discrete domain sum. A brief remark (or a supplemental plot of the discrete versus continuum T for the N used in Figs. 1–3) would make the approximation fully transparent.
  2. Figure 1(d) inset and the fiber-loop curves of Fig. 3 would benefit from an explicit statement of the fitted value of C (or κ) so that readers can verify the asymptotic slope without re-deriving A and ξ.
  3. A short sentence clarifying that the open-boundary conditions and the uniform initial condition do not alter the large-N saddle-point exponent would remove a possible source of confusion for readers unfamiliar with Lifshitz tails.
  4. Typographical consistency: “costant” in the Fig. 1 caption should be “constant”; the arXiv identifier and the compiled date (July 2026) should be checked against the final journal version.

Circularity Check

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Minor self-citation of prior Lifshitz spectrum plus one fitted prefactor κ for curve overlays; the stretched-exponential saddle-point derivation and non-monotonicity remain independent of those inputs.

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  1. self citation load bearing [Anomalous Absorption from Griffiths rare regions (and Introduction)]
    "These modes correspond to Lifshitz-tail states [36], which are the optical analogue of the rare-region excitations underlying Griffiths physics. … While previous work [36] predicted the formation of Lifshitz-tail photonic states, their consequences for optical absorption remained unexplored."

    The existence, spectral separation (λ≃γ vs. λ∼ J^{2}/γ), and domain-length dependence of the long-lived modes that dominate long-distance absorption are imported wholesale from the author’s own prior paper [36] rather than re-derived. That spectral input is load-bearing for the subsequent rare-region integral, even though the integral itself is new.

  2. fitted input called prediction [Eqs. (4)–(6) and Fig. 1 caption]
    "A=2κ^{4}π^{2}γJ/(γ^{2}+4J^{2}), … with κ≳ 1 a dimensionless prefactor accounting for higher-order mode contributions. … the stretched exponential decay in the strong loss regime [Eq.(4) with κ=1.8]."

    The single free prefactor κ is chosen (κ=1.8) so that the continuum integral (4) overlays the numerical transmittance curves. The quantitative match of the dashed “theoretical” curves is therefore partly by construction of κ, although the universal exponent 1/4 and the existence of the non-monotonic minimum are independent of its precise value.

full rationale

The central results (Griffiths stretched-exponential T(z,γ)∼(Jz)3/8exp(-C(Jz)1/4) from the rare-domain integral and the non-monotonic T(γ) minimum near γ∼ J) are obtained by a self-contained coarse-graining of the binary-loss tight-binding model into loss-free segments, followed by an elementary saddle-point evaluation of Eq. (4). That integral and the resulting exponent 1/4 do not presuppose the final form. The only self-citation that supplies a load-bearing microscopic ingredient is the existence and algebraic leakage of Lifshitz-tail modes taken from the author’s prior Opt. Lett. paper [36]; the absorption statistics themselves are new. The single free parameter κ is adjusted once for visual overlay of the dashed curves and does not force the scaling or the existence of an optimal loss rate. No definitional loop, uniqueness theorem, or renaming of a known empirical pattern is present. Score 2 therefore reflects only the minor self-citation and the fitted prefactor; the derivation chain is otherwise independent.

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The central claim rests on a standard 1-D tight-binding non-Hermitian model, the binary quenched-loss ensemble, the large-N continuum replacement of domain sums, and an algebraic leakage formula whose prefactor is adjusted by hand. No new particles or forces are introduced; the only free parameter that is dialed to data is the dimensionless κ that multiplies the leakage rate.

free parameters (1)
  • κ (leakage prefactor) = 1.8
    Dimensionless factor ≳1 introduced to account for higher-order modes; set to 1.8 to match the numerical curves in Fig. 1(d). The existence of the stretched exponential does not require a precise value, but quantitative agreement does.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Light amplitudes obey the nearest-neighbor tight-binding equations i dψ_n/dz = J(ψ_{n+1}+ψ_{n-1}) - i γ_n ψ_n with open boundaries.
    Standard coupled-mode model for waveguide arrays and synthetic lattices; invoked from the outset (Eq. 1).
  • domain assumption Loss rates γ_n are independent binary quenched random variables (γ with probability p, 0 with probability 1-p).
    Defines the sparse-loss ensemble; used for all analytics and numerics.
  • ad hoc to paper In the large-N limit the transmittance is given by the continuum integral over domain lengths T ≃ p² ∫ ℓ exp(-ℓ/ξ - A J z / ℓ³) dℓ.
    Coarse-graining step that replaces the discrete sum of rare domains by a continuous integral (Eq. 4 and Supplemental Sec. 2); validity for moderate N is checked only numerically.
  • ad hoc to paper Leakage rate of a domain of length ℓ scales as λ_ℓ ∼ (const) J / ℓ³ with the constant containing the factor A(γ).
    Taken from the tunneling estimate of the Lifshitz modes; algebraic power 3 is essential for the exponent α=1/4.

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Light absorption in photonic lattices with sparsely distributed loss sites exhibits behavior analogous to Griffiths physics. Under uniform excitation, the transmitted power shows a stretched-exponential decay and a non-monotonic dependence on the loss strength, with an optimal loss rate that maximizes absorption. This behavior arises from rare, long loss-free segments that act as weakly coupled, long-lived photonic channels, rather than from exceptional point physics or interference effects. Using a minimal tight-binding model with binary quenched dissipation, we show that rare regions produce a universal Griffiths-type subexponential decay. Sparse-loss photonic lattices thus provide an accessible platform to observe disorder-induced anomalous absorption and rare-region Griffiths physics.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (a) Schematic of a dissipative waveguide lattice comprising N waveguides with sparse losses. Loss rate: γ; coupling costant: J. (b-d) Numerically-computed behavior of the transmittance T(z) versus normalized propagation distance Jz (black curves 1) in a lattice comprising N = 50 waveguides for increasing values of the normalized loss rate γ/J and for p = 0.1. (b) γ/J = 0.1, (c) γ/J = 1, and (d) γ/J = 4. Th… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Numerically-computed behavior of the transmittance T versus propagation steps m (solid curves) in a synthetic fiber loop lattice for N = 100, β = 0.9 × π/2, γ = 0.3 and (a) p = 0.1, (b) p = 0.2. The curves are obtained after averaging over 1000 disorder realizations. The dashed curves show the theoretical predictions based on Eq.(4) with J = (1/2) cos β. and spectral degeneracies [39–41], the present effec… view at source ↗

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