@article{ISI:000530630700004, abstract = {We model a one-dimensional current-driven interacting disordered system through a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with asymmetric hopping and study the entanglement properties of its eigenstates. In particular, we investigate whether a many-body localizable system undergoes a transition to a current-carrying nonequilibrium steady state under the drive and how the entanglement properties of the quantum states change across the transition. We also discuss the dynamics, entanglement growth, and long-time fate of a generic initial state under an appropriate time evolution of the system governed by the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. Our study reveals rich entanglement structures of the eigenstates of the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We find transition between current-carrying states with volume-law to area-law entanglement entropy, as a function of disorder and the strength of the non-Hermitian term.}, article-number = {184201}, author = {Panda, Animesh and Banerjee, Sumilan}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.184201}, eissn = {2469-9969}, issn = {2469-9950}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW B}, month = {MAY 6}, number = {18}, orcid-numbers = {Banerjee, Sumilan/0000-0002-8765-7368}, title = {Entanglement in nonequilibrium steady states and many-body localization breakdown in a current-driven system}, unique-id = {ISI:000530630700004}, volume = {101}, year = {2020} }