Anomalous critical scaling of biorthogonal entanglement in the non-Hermitian topological Anderson insulator


TOZAR A.

EPL, cilt.154, sa.1, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 154 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2026
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1209/0295-5075/ae5381
  • Dergi Adı: EPL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Chemical Abstracts Core, INSPEC, Linguistic Bibliography, zbMATH
  • Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The characterization of topological phases in disordered non-Hermitian systems remains a formidable challenge, as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) disrupts the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence and renders spectral invariants unreliable. In this letter, we propose the real part of the biorthogonal entanglement entropy as a precise, basis-independent diagnostic that cuts through this complexity. Investigating a disordered non-reciprocal Kitaev chain, we demonstrate that this entropic probe provides a robust, boundary-sensitive diagnostic that faithfully tracks the topological phase transition even in regimes where traditional winding numbers fluctuate wildly. Crucially, we uncover an anomalous critical scaling of the entanglement entropy: while the Hermitian limit follows standard conformal scaling, the non-Hermitian critical point exhibits a super-critical effective central charge of. Within the studied system sizes, this enhancement is consistent with skin-effect–driven non-unitary behavior at the critical point. Our findings establish biorthogonal entanglement not only as a robust order parameter for the topological Anderson insulator but also as an experimentally accessible signature in topo-electric circuits.