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Level statistics detect generalized symmetries

Statistical Mechanics 2024-06-07 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Level statistics are a useful probe for detecting symmetries and distinguishing integrable and non-integrable systems. I show by way of several examples that level statistics detect the presence of generalized symmetries that go beyond conventional lattice symmetries and internal symmetries. I consider non-invertible symmetries through the example of Kramers-Wannier duality at an Ising critical point, symmetries with nonlocal generators through the example of a spin-11 anisotropic Heisenberg chain, and qq-deformed symmetries through an example closely related to recent work on qq-deformed SPT phases. In each case, conventional level statistics detect the generalized symmetries, and these symmetries must be resolved before seeing characteristic level repulsion in non-integrable systems. For the qq-deformed symmetry, I discovered via level statistics a qq-deformed generalization of inversion that is interesting in its own right and that may protect qq-deformed SPT phases.

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@article{arxiv.2406.03983,
  title  = {Level statistics detect generalized symmetries},
  author = {Nicholas O'Dea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03983},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages main, 3 pages supplemental

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