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An external magnetic field can delocalize Anderson-localized states in a spinful non-Hermitian chain and restore skin accumulation when disorder is anti-correlated across spins.

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Under anti-symmetrically correlated disorder, a Zeeman field suppresses effective disorder strength and drives Anderson delocalization into NHSE in a spinful Hatano-Nelson chain.

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load-bearing objection Solid, transparent result: Zeeman field suppresses effective disorder and re-enters NHSE, but only for engineered anti-symmetric spin disorder. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2603.25700 v2 pith:B5SLM2JZ submitted 2026-03-26 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.dis-nn

Magnetic field Controlled Anderson Delocalization in a Spinful Non-Hermitian Chain

Moirangthem Sanahal , Subhasis Panda , Snehasish Nandy This is my paper
classification cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.dis-nn
keywords Anderson localizationnon-Hermitian skin effectspinful Hatano-Nelson modelZeeman couplingcorrelated disorderinverse participation ratiomean center of masseffective disorder suppression
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Disorder and non-Hermiticity compete in one-dimensional open systems: strong disorder pins states into bulk Anderson localization, while asymmetric hopping drives them into boundary skin modes. This paper shows that adding spin and an in-plane magnetic field gives a third, experimentally accessible knob. When the random on-site potentials on the two spin sectors are prepared with opposite signs, the Zeeman term couples the sectors and reduces the effective disorder width. The intrinsic non-reciprocity then wins, so states that would have stayed Anderson-localized become directionally skin-localized. The authors map the three-way competition with inverse participation ratio and mean center of mass, and prove that the same field does nothing useful under symmetric or uncorrelated disorder. The result matters because magnetic fields are easy to dial in synthetic platforms that already host spin and non-Hermitian hopping, offering a route to switch localization character without retuning disorder or gain-loss balance.

Core claim

Under anti-symmetrically correlated disorder, an external in-plane magnetic field drives Anderson delocalization and re-entrant non-Hermitian skin effect even at strong disorder, by suppressing the effective disorder strength through Zeeman-induced inter-chain coupling.

What carries the argument

Zeeman-mediated inter-chain coupling under anti-symmetric disorder: after a site-dependent unitary rotation that diagonalizes the onsite terms, the effective potentials become ±√(Δ_n^{2} + B^{2}), whose fluctuation width W_eff = √(B^{2} + W^{2}/4) − B is strictly smaller than the bare disorder W and shrinks further with increasing B.

Load-bearing premise

The two spin sectors must be prepared with exactly opposite random potentials; without that engineered anti-correlation the magnetic field does not suppress disorder and the delocalization fails.

What would settle it

Prepare a spinful Hatano-Nelson chain with deliberately anti-correlated onsite disorder, apply an in-plane field, and check whether the inverse-participation-ratio and mean-center-of-mass diagnostics cross from bulk Anderson localization into directional skin accumulation at the predicted W_eff(B) threshold; the same field applied to symmetrically correlated or uncorrelated disorder must leave the states Anderson-localized.

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If this is right

  • Magnetic field strength becomes a continuous experimental dial that can restore skin modes without changing bare disorder or hopping asymmetry.
  • Stronger bare disorder simply shifts the critical field upward; stronger non-Hermiticity lowers it, giving a quantitative three-parameter phase diagram.
  • Even reciprocal (real-gauge) spinful chains can acquire effective non-reciprocity and skin accumulation once the Zeeman field is turned on.
  • The same mechanism is strictly non-Hermitian: in the Hermitian limit the identical disorder suppression leaves the system Anderson-localized because directional bias is absent.

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  • Cold-atom or photonic lattices that already engineer synthetic spin-dependent gauge fields could test the predicted W_eff(B) formula by ramping an external field while monitoring boundary accumulation.
  • If disorder correlations can be dynamically reconfigured (for example by spin-dependent optical potentials), the same platform could switch between localized and skin regimes on demand.
  • The Creutz-ladder mapping suggests that related ladder or multi-leg non-Hermitian models with inter-leg Zeeman-like terms may host analogous field-controlled localization transitions.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript studies a disordered spinful Hatano–Nelson chain with synthetic Abelian gauge fields and an in-plane Zeeman field. It first recovers the known smooth AL–NHSE crossover in the spinless limit, then shows that, for anti-symmetrically correlated onsite disorder (Δ↑_n = −Δ↓_n), a finite magnetic field drives Anderson delocalization and re-entrant NHSE even at strong disorder. The mechanism is an exact site-dependent unitary map onto a Creutz ladder whose effective onsite potentials are ±√(Δ_n² + B²), yielding a reduced disorder width W_eff = √(B² + W²/4) − B that shrinks with B. Symmetric or uncorrelated disorder does not produce the effect. The triple interplay of W, non-Hermiticity, and B is mapped with ensemble-averaged IPR and mean center of mass.

Significance. If the stated conditions hold, the work supplies a clean, experimentally motivated control knob (in-plane B) for the AL–NHSE crossover in spinful non-Hermitian chains, extending the inter-chain-coupling idea of Jin et al. to two non-Hermitian sectors realized by Zeeman coupling. The effective-disorder formula is elementary, parameter-free once the anti-symmetric ensemble is fixed, and matches the IPR/mcom phase diagrams. The Hermitian-limit counter-check (Appendix A.3) correctly shows that disorder suppression alone is insufficient without non-reciprocity. These are solid, falsifiable theoretical results for a synthetic-platform audience.

major comments (2)
  1. [Secs. III B, IV, Appendix A.2] Secs. III B, IV and Appendix A.2: the delocalization and point-gap reappearance are demonstrated only for the specially prepared ensemble Δ↑_n = −Δ↓_n. For symmetric (Δ↑_n = Δ↓_n) or uncorrelated disorder the same B leaves states Anderson-localized (Fig. 3a–b). The abstract and title frame magnetic-field control as a general enrichment of the AL–NHSE interplay; the manuscript should state more prominently that the effect is conditional on this non-generic correlation, and should discuss how (or whether) such anti-correlations can be engineered in the platforms listed in the outlook (cold atoms, topolectrical circuits, photonics).
  2. [Appendix A.1, Eqs. (A.4)–(A.5); Sec. IV] Appendix A.1, Eqs. (A.4)–(A.5): after the unitary transformation the hopping matrices themselves become site-dependent through ϕ_n(B, Δ_n). The main-text mechanism (Sec. IV) attributes delocalization solely to the reduction of the onsite width W_eff. The paper should clarify whether hopping renormalization contributes appreciably to the AL→NHSE crossover (e.g., by comparing numerics with the onsite-only Creutz ladder versus the full transformed hoppings), or explicitly argue that W_eff suppression dominates in the regimes of Figs. 4–5.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Figs. 2 and 5] Fig. 2a and Fig. 5 use the same color scale language (red = skin, white = AL) but different non-Hermiticity parameters; a short note in the captions that the spinless and spinful boundaries are not quantitatively comparable would help the reader.
  2. [Sec. III C, Fig. 4] Notation: θ_L is called both a complex gauge flux and ‘non-Hermiticity’ (e.g. Fig. 4b,e). Stating once that Im(θ_L) is the non-reciprocity parameter would avoid ambiguity.
  3. [Appendix A; Sec. III C; Acknowledgments] Typographical: ‘hoping’ appears for ‘hopping’ in several places in Appendix A; ‘quanitfy’ in Sec. III C; ‘PARAM SHA V AK’ spacing in Acknowledgments.
  4. [Sec. III C] The winding-number remark in Sec. III C is useful; a brief numerical check that the point-gap winding tracks the mcom red regions in Fig. 5 would strengthen the topological interpretation without changing the diagnostics.
  5. [Introduction] Reference [49] is the closest prior work (inter-chain coupling induced delocalization). A one-sentence contrast in the introduction—Hermitian partner chain versus two NH chains coupled by Zeeman B—would sharpen the novelty claim.

Circularity Check

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No load-bearing circularity: effective-disorder suppression W_eff = √(B² + W²/4) − B is an algebraic consequence of the unitary transformation under the stated anti-symmetric ensemble, not a fitted or self-defined prediction.

specific steps
  1. self citation load bearing [Sec. III D and Ref. [52]]
    "Increasing the magnetic field eventually aligns both sectors to the same direction, as also reported in our earlier work [52]."

    Minor self-citation of the authors’ prior gauge-field paper for a secondary observation (spin-polarized bidirectional NHSE). It is not used to justify the central effective-disorder formula or the AL o NHSE crossover under anti-symmetric disorder, so it does not raise the score above 1.

full rationale

The paper’s central derivation (Secs. III B, IV and Appendix A) starts from the spinful Hatano–Nelson Hamiltonian with Zeeman term B σ_x and anti-symmetrically correlated onsite potentials Δ↑_n = −Δ↓_n. A site-dependent unitary rotation that diagonalizes the onsite block maps the potentials to ±√(Δ_n² + B²). Because Δ_n is drawn uniformly from [−W/2, W/2], the support of the transformed potentials is exactly [B, √(B² + W²/4)], yielding the reduced width W_eff = √(B² + W²/4) − B by elementary range arithmetic. This identity is parameter-free and independent of the subsequent IPR/mcom diagnostics; the numerics merely confirm that the reduced disorder allows the pre-existing non-reciprocity to dominate. Self-citations ([52] for the gauge construction and bidirectional skin effect, [58] for reciprocal-case NHSE) supply model ingredients or side remarks but are not invoked as uniqueness theorems or as premises that force the delocalization claim. No parameters are fitted to localization data and then re-used as predictions, and no known empirical pattern is merely renamed. The requirement of anti-symmetric disorder is an external modeling assumption (explicitly contrasted with the symmetric case that yields no suppression), not a circular step. Hence the derivation chain is self-contained against its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The work is a standard tight-binding model study. All free parameters are model knobs, not data fits. Background axioms are textbook non-Hermitian and Anderson physics; the only paper-specific modeling choice is the anti-symmetric disorder correlation required for the effect.

free parameters (2)
  • disorder strength W and magnetic field B (in units of J)
    Scanned as free control parameters; no fitting to external data. Values such as W/J = 5–8, B/J = 4–10 are chosen by hand to illustrate regimes.
  • gauge fluxes θ_L (imaginary), θ_R (real)
    Chosen by hand to set non-reciprocity (e.g., θ_L = i/5 or i/2); not fitted.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption 1D Hermitian systems are Anderson-localized for any infinitesimal disorder (Abrahams et al. scaling theory).
    Used as the Hermitian baseline against which non-Hermitian delocalization is contrasted (Sec. III A).
  • domain assumption Point-gap topology under PBC implies NHSE under OBC (Okuma, Zhang et al.).
    Invoked to interpret the complex spectra in Fig. 3d as evidence of skin modes.
  • ad hoc to paper Anti-symmetric disorder Δ↑_n = −Δ↓_n can be prepared across spin sectors.
    Essential modeling assumption; the effect vanishes for symmetric or uncorrelated disorder (Fig. 3, Appendix A.2).
  • domain assumption Orbital magnetic effects are absent in strictly 1D geometry; only Zeeman term appears.
    Stated in Sec. II B to justify the form of the Hamiltonian.

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abstract

Anderson localization (AL) and the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) represent two paradigmatic localization phenomena driven, respectively, by disorder and non-Hermiticity. In one-dimensional (1D) non-Hermitian systems, these factors are known to compete and provide a smooth crossover between AL and NHSE upon parameter tuning. Here, we show that this interplay is fundamentally enriched in spinful systems, where an external magnetic field acts as an additional degree to manipulate the localization behavior. By investigating a disordered 1D spinful non-Hermitian chain, we demonstrate that under appropriately correlated disorder configurations across spin sectors, the magnetic field enhances the AL $\rightarrow$ NHSE crossover. Interestingly, this facilitates the Anderson delocalization transition even in strongly disordered systems where states would otherwise be Anderson localized. By analyzing the inverse participation ratio and the mean center of mass, we map the resulting triple interplay between disorder, non-Hermiticity, and the magnetic field strength, identifying regimes of Anderson localization and skin accumulation. We further reveal that this magnetic field driven delocalization phenomenon originates from an effective suppression of disorder strength via Zeeman-induced inter-chain coupling across the spin sectors.

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Figure 5. Figure 5: summarizes the triple interplay more directly. As de￾picted by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Effective versus intrinsic disorder strength under varying [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗

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