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Sparse non-Hermitian random matrices arise in the study of disordered physical systems with asymmetric local interactions, and have applications ranging from neural networks to ecosystem dynamics. The spectral characteristics of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Fernando Lucas Metz , Izaak Neri , Tim Rogers

We say that a semigroup of matrices has a submultiplicative spectrum if the spectrum of the product of any two elements of the semigroup is contained in the product of the two spectra in question (as sets). In this note we explore an…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Mitja Mastnak , Lindsey McNamara , Zhipeng Yu

We study the spectral norm of N-dimensional hermitian random matrices whose entries are zero outside of the band of the width b along the principal diagonal. Inside this band the elements are given by gaussian centered jointly independent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Khorunzhy

The problem of diagonalizing a class of complicated matrices, to be called ultrametric matrices, is investigated. These matrices appear at various stages in the description of disordered systems with many equilibrium phases by the technique…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Temesvari , C De Dominicis , I. Kondor

A real symmetric matrix $M$ is completely positive semidefinite if it admits a Gram representation by (Hermitian) positive semidefinite matrices of any size $d$. The smallest such $d$ is called the (complex) completely positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Sander Gribling , David de Laat , Monique Laurent

Approximating the $k$-th spectral gap $\Delta_k=|\lambda_k-\lambda_{k+1}|$ and the corresponding midpoint $\mu_k=\frac{\lambda_k+\lambda_{k+1}}{2}$ of an $N\times N$ Hermitian matrix with eigenvalues…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Almudena Carrera Vazquez , Aleksandros Sobczyk

To a unitary matrix U we associate a doubly stochastic matrix M by taking the modulus squared of each element of U. To study the connection between onset of quantum chaos on graphs and ergodicity of the underlying Markov chain, specified by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-19 G. Berkolaiko

Let H be a positive semidefinite matrix partitioned into Hermitian blocks. Then, up to a direct sum operation, H is the average of matrices isometrically congruent to its partial trace. A few corollaries are given, related to important…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Jean-Christophe Bourin , Eun-Young Lee

The spectral fluctuations of complex quantum systems, in appropriate limit, are known to be consistent with that obtained from random matrices. However, this relation between the spectral fluctuations of physical systems and random matrices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 S. Harshini Tekur , M. S. Santhanam

We are interested in the phenomenon of the essential spectrum instability for a class of unbounded (block) Jacobi matrices. We give a series of sufficient conditions for the matrices from certain classes to have a discrete spectrum on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Stanislas Kupin , Sergey Naboko

This work deals with decay bounds for Green matrices and generalized eigenvectors of block Jacobi matrices when the real part of the spectral parameter lies in an infinite gap of the operator's essential spectrum. We consider the cases of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Jan Janas , Sergey Naboko , Luis O. Silva

In this brief paper we present some results on creating and manipulating spectral gaps for a (regular) quantum graph by inserting appropriate internal structures into its vertices. Complete proofs and extensions of the results are planned…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Ngoc T. Do , Peter Kuchment , Beng Ong

It is well established numerically that spectral statistics of pseudo-integrable models differs considerably from the reference statistics of integrable and chaotic systems. In [PRL,93 (2004) 254102] statistical properties of a certain…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Bogomolny , R. Dubertrand , C. Schmit

The spectral variant of the quantum marginal problem asks: Given prescribed spectra for a set of overlapping quantum marginals, does there exist a compatible joint state? The main idea of this work is a symmetry-reduced semidefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Felix Huber , Nikolai Wyderka

We derive a sequence of measures whose corresponding Jacobi matrices have special properties and a general mapping of an open quantum system onto 1D semi infinite chains with only nearest neighbour interactions. Then we proceed to use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 M. P. Woods , R. Groux , A. W. Chin , S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

Several spectral radii formulas for infinite bounded nonnegative matrices in max algebra are obtained. We also prove some Perron-Frobenius type results for such matrices. In particular, we obtain results on block triangular forms, which are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Vladimir Müller , Aljoša Peperko

Random matrix spectral correlations is a defining feature of quantum chaos. Here, we study such correlations in a minimal model of chaotic many-body quantum dynamics where interactions are confined to the system's boundary, dubbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Felix Fritzsch , Tomaž Prosen

We give upper and lower bounds for the spectral radius of a nonnegative matrix by using its average 2-row sums, and characterize the equality cases if the matrix is irreducible. We also apply these bounds to various nonnegative matrices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Rundan Xing , Bo Zhou

In this paper, we develop spectral analysis of a discrete non-Hermitian quantum system that is a discrete counterpart of some continuous quantum systems on a complex contour. In particular, simple conditions for discreteness of the spectrum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-20 Ebru Ergun

The aim of this paper is to study the spectral gap and the logarithmic Sobolev constant for continuous spin systems. A simple but general result for estimating the spectral gap of finite dimensional systems is given by Theorem 1.1, in terms…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-27 Mu-Fa Chen