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Critical Level-Spacing Distribution for General Boundary Conditions

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

It is believed that the semi-Poisson function P(S)=4Sexp(2S)P(S)=4S\exp(-2S) describes the normalized distribution of the nearest level-spacings SS for critical energy levels at the Anderson metal-insulator transition from quantum chaos to integrability, after an average over four obvious boundary conditions (BC) is taken (Braun {\it et} {\it al} \cite{1}). In order to check whether the semi-Poisson is the correct universal distribution at criticality we numerically compute it by integrating over all possible boundary conditions. We find that although P(S)P(S) describes very well the main part of the obtained critical distribution small differences exist particularly in the large SS tail. The simpler crossover between the integrable ballistic and localized limits is shown to be universally characterized by a Gaussian-like P(S)P(S) distribution instead.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405031,
  title  = {Critical Level-Spacing Distribution for General Boundary Conditions},
  author = {S. N. Evangelou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405031},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages and 3 figures

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