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We describe a random matrix approach that can provide generic and readily soluble mean-field descriptions of the phase diagram for a variety of systems ranging from QCD to high-T_c materials. Instead of working from specific models, phase…

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Quantized, compact graphs were shown to be excellent paradigms for quantum chaos in bounded systems. Connecting them with leads to infinity we show that they display all the features which characterize scattering systems with an underlying…

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We study the fluctuation properties of transition intensities applying a recently proposed generalization of the random matrix theory, which is based on Beck and Cohen's superstatistics. We obtain an analytic expression for the distribution…

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We develop a statistical theory describing quantum-mechanical scattering of a particle by a cavity when the geometry is such that the classical dynamics is chaotic. This picture is relevant to a variety of systems, ranging from atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. A. Mello , H. U. Baranger

Using a random-matrix approach and Monte-Carlo simulations, we generate scattering matrices and cross sections for compound-nucleus reactions. In the absence of direct reactions we compare the average cross sections with the analytic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-03 T. Kawano , P. Talou , H. A. Weidenmüller

The random matrix ensembles are applied to the quantum chaotic systems. The quantum systems are studied using the finite dimensional real, complex and quaternion Hilbert spaces of the eigenfunctions. The linear operators describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

The present study presents a comprehensive theoretical investigation of atom and asymmetric top molecule inelastic scattering based on the R-matrix formalism. The proposed methodology establishes a rigorous framework for treating inelastic…

Matrix concentration inequalities and their recently discovered sharp counterparts provide powerful tools to bound the spectrum of random matrices whose entries are linear functions of independent random variables. However, in many…

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The wave propagation in random medium plays a critical role in optics and quantum physics. Multiple scattering of coherent wave in a random medium determines the transport procedure. Brownian motions of the scatterers perturb each…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Peng Miao , Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wang , Shanbao Tong

Random band matrices relevant for open chaotic systems are introduced and studied. The scattering model based on such matrices may serve for the description of preequilibrium chaotic scattering. In the limit of a large number of open…

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The treatment of nuclear effects in neutrino-nucleus interactions is one of the main sources of systematic uncertainty for the analysis and interpretation of data of neutrino oscillation experiments. Neutrinos interact with nuclei via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Carlotta Giusti , Martin V. Ivanov

It is described how one comes to the Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory (RMT) starting from a model of a disordered metal. The lectures start with a historical introduction where basic ideas of the RMT and theory of disordered metals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. B. Efetov

Understanding nuclear forces, infinite nuclear matter, and finite nuclei within a unified framework has remained a central challenge in nuclear physics for decades. While most \textit{ab initio} studies employ nonrelativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 Shihang Shen , Jun-Xu Lu , Li-Sheng Geng , Jie Meng , Wei-Jiang Zou

The scattering matrix S of a ballistic chaotic cavity is the direct sum of a `classical' and a `quantum' part, which describe the scattering of channels with typical dwell time smaller and larger than the Ehrenfest time, respectively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-22 Piet W. Brouwer , Saar Rahav

Quantum chaotic systems are conjectured to display a spectrum whose fine-grained features (gaps and correlations) are well described by Random Matrix Theory (RMT). We propose and develop a complementary version of this conjecture: quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Vijay Balasubramanian , Javier M. Magan , Qingyue Wu

The statistics of gaps between quantum energy levels is a hallmark criterion in quantum chaos and quantum integrability studies. The relevant distributions corresponding to exactly integrable vs. fully chaotic systems are universal and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ben Craps , Marine De Clerck , Oleg Evnin , Maxim Pavlov

The probability distribution of the proper delay times during scattering on a chaotic system is derived in the framework of the random matrix approach and the supersymmetry method. The result obtained is valid for an arbitrary number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Juergen Sommers , Dmitry V. Savin , Valentin V. Sokolov

Electronic transport through chaotic quantum dots exhibits universal, system independent, properties, consistent with random matrix theory. The quantum transport can also be rooted, via the semiclassical approximation, in sums over the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-06 Gregory Berkolaiko , Jack Kuipers

Random matrix theory is a powerful way to describe universal correlations of eigenvalues of complex systems. It also may serve as a schematic model for disorder in quantum systems. In this review, we discuss both types of applications of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. M. Verbaarschot , T. Wettig

Coupled mode theory (CMT) is a powerful framework for decomposing interactions between electromagnetic waves and scattering bodies into resonances and their couplings with power-carrying channels. It has widespread use in few-resonance,…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Hanwen Zhang , Owen D. Miller