Non-defective degeneracy in non-Hermitian bipartite system

Abstract Starting from a Hermitian operator with two distinct eigenvalues, we construct a non-Hermitian bipartite system in Gaussian orthogonal ensemble according to random matrix theory, where we introduce the off-diagonal fluctuations through random eigenkets and realizing the bipartite configuration consisting of two D × D subsystems (with D being the Hilbert space dimension). As required by the global thermalization (chaos), one of the two subsystems is fully ranked, while the other is rank deficient. For the latter (rank-deficient) subsystem, there is a block with non-defective degeneracies that contains non-local symmetries, as well as the accumulation effect of the linear map in adjacent eigenvectors. The maximally mixed state formed by the eigenvectors of this special region does not exhibit thermal ensemble behavior (neither canonical or Gibbs), and displays similar characteristics to the corresponding reduced density, which can be verified through the Loschmidt echo and variance of the imaginary spectrum. This non-defective degeneracy region partially meets the Lemma in 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.220603 and theorem in 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.150603. The coexistence of strong entanglement and initial state fidelity in this region make it possible to achieve a maximally mixed density, which, however, does not correspond to a thermal canonical ensemble (with complete insensitivity to the environmental energy or temperature). Outside this region, the collection of eigenstates (reduced density) always exhibit restriction on the corresponding Hilbert space dimension (with, e.g., infinite number of bound states), and thus suppress the global thermalization. There are abundant physics for those densities in Hermitian and non-Hermitian bases, which we investigate separately in this work. For example, the disentangling effect originates from non-Hermitian skin effect where the coherence exists along the direction orthogonal to the entangled boundaries of the Loschmidt echo spectrum in the Hermitian basis, while it originates from the many-body localization with the coherence among echo boundaries in the non-Hermitian basis which is disorder-free.