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Quantum dots pose a problem where one must confront three obstacles: randomness, interactions and finite size. Yet it is this confluence that allows one to make some theoretical advances by invoking three theoretical tools: Random Matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Shankar

We study the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator by means of the valence quark mass dependence of the chiral condensate in partially quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory (pqChPT) in the supersymmetric formulation of Bernard and Golterman. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Osborn , D. Toublan , J. J. M. Verbaarschot

We summarize the analytical solution of the Chiral Perturbation Theory for the Hermitian Wilson Dirac operator of $N_c=2$ QCD with quarks in the fundamental representation. Results have been obtained for the quenched microscopic spectral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-20 Mario Kieburg , Jacobus Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We provide first evidence that Matrix Models describe the low lying complex Dirac eigenvalues in a theory with dynamical fermions at non-zero density. Lattice data for gauge group SU(2) with staggered fermions are compared to detailed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Gernot Akemann , Elmar Bittner

The random matrix ensembles are applied to the quantum statistical 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

We review the state of the art of the theory of Euclidean random matrices, focusing on the density of their eigenvalues. Both Hermitian and non-Hermitian matrices are considered and links with simpler, standard random matrix ensembles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 A. Goetschy , S. E. Skipetrov

Representation theory and the theory of symmetric functions have played a central role in Random Matrix Theory in the computation of quantities such as joint moments of traces and joint moments of characteristic polynomials of matrices…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Bhargavi Jonnadula , Jonathan P. Keating , Francesco Mezzadri

We connect quantum graphs with infinite leads, and turn them to scattering systems. We show that they display all the features which characterize quantum scattering systems with an underlying classical chaotic dynamics: typical poles, delay…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsampikos Kottos , Uzy Smilansky

It is well known that the joint probability density of the eigenvalues of Gaussian ensembles of random matrices may be interpreted as a Coulomb gas. We review these classical results for hermitian and complex random matrices, with special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Leboeuf

We present the results of systematic numerical computations relating to the extreme value statistics of the characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices drawn from the Circular Unitary Ensemble (CUE) of Random Matrix Theory. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Yan V. Fyodorov , Sven Gnutzmann , Jonathan P. Keating

We analyze Dirac spectra of two-dimensional QCD like theories both in the continuum and on the lattice and classify them according to random matrix theories sharing the same global symmetries. The classification is different from QCD in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-10-22 Mario Kieburg , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical and quantum scattering off a pinball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

We formulate gaussian and circular random-matrix models representing a coupled system consisting of an absorbing and an amplifying resonator, which are mutually related by a generalized time-reversal symmetry. Motivated by optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Christopher Birchall , Henning Schomerus

It has recently been demonstrated in quenched lattice simulations that the distribution of the low-lying eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac operator is universal and described by random-matrix theory. We present first evidence that this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-12-30 M. E. Berbenni-Bitsch , S. Meyer , T. Wettig

Recent theoretical studies of chaotic scattering have encounted ensembles of random matrices in which the eigenvalue probability density function contains a one-body factor with an exponent proportional to the number of eigenvalues. Two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. H. Baker , P. J. Forrester , P. A. Pearce

Classical random matrix ensembles were originally introduced in physics to approximate quantum many-particle nuclear interactions. However, there exists a plethora of quantum systems whose dynamics is explained in terms of few-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Manan Vyas , Thomas H. Seligman

This script is based on the notes the author prepared to give a set of six lectures at the Les Houches School "Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics" in the summer of 2018. The school had its focus on the application of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-19 Frank Göhmann

We compute individual distributions of low-lying eigenvalues of a chiral random matrix ensemble interpolating symplectic and unitary symmetry classes by the Nystr\"om-type method of evaluating the Fredholm Pfaffian and resolvents of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-02-20 Takuya Yamamoto , Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

This chapter, to appear in the section on QCD under extreme conditions within the Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics, aims to provide a pedagogical introduction to the physics of quarks and gluons in the presence of high temperature, nonzero…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-30 Bastian B. Brandt , Gergely Endrodi

The random matrix ensembles are applied to the quantum statistical two-dimensional systems of electrons. The quantum systems are studied using the finite dimensional real, complex and quaternion Hilbert spaces of the eigenfunctions. The…

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