Many-body entanglement and spectral clusters in the extended hard-core bosonic Hatano-Nelson model

Abstract: We study many-body entanglements and spectra of the extended bosonic Hatano-Nelson model in the hard-core limit. We show that the system undergoes a phase transition from a gapless phase to a charge density wave phase accompanied by a $\mathcal{PT}$ transition in the first excited state. The phase transition is characterized by the crossing of the ground-state biorthogonal order parameter and the sudden change of the first excited-state entanglement entropy. The gapless phase is verified by the logarithmic scaling of the ground-state entanglement entropy with the central charge $c=1$. Furthermore, we show that all energy spectral clusters would form ellipses in strong nearest-neighbor interactions, for which we establish a universal scaling law. The lengths of the major and minor axes are shown to obey power laws with respect to the nearest-neighbor interaction. The exact expressions are derived for the numbers of energy levels on the outermost elliptic ring of each clusters.