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These expository notes are centered around the circular law theorem, which states that the empirical spectral distribution of a nxn random matrix with i.i.d. entries of variance 1/n tends to the uniform law on the unit disc of the complex…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Charles Bordenave , Djalil Chafai

We study the zero-temperature spin fluctuations of a two-dimensional itinerant-electron system with an incommensurate magnetic ground state described by a single-band Hubbard Hamiltonian. We introduce the (broken-symmetry) magnetic phase at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Arrigoni , G. C. Strinati

We present the exact analytical expression for the spectrum of a sparse non-Hermitian random matrix ensemble, generalizing two classical results in random-matrix theory: this analytical expression forms a non-Hermitian version of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 I. Neri , F. L. Metz

The paper discusses progress in understanding statistical properties of complex eigenvalues (and corresponding eigenvectors) of weakly non-unitary and non-Hermitian random matrices. Ensembles of this type emerge in various physical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yan V Fyodorov , H. -J Sommers

A fundamental axiom of quantum mechanics requires the Hamiltonians to be Hermitian which guarantees real eigen-energies and probability conservation. However, a class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with Parity-Time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yang Wu , Wenqiang Liu , Jianpei Geng , Xingrui Song , Xiangyu Ye , Chang-Kui Duan , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Random matrix theory (RMT) universality is the defining property of quantum mechanical chaotic systems, and can be probed by observables like the spectral form factor (SFF). In this paper, we describe systematic deviations from RMT…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Rahel L. Baumgartner , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner

We study several classes of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which can be expressed in terms of bilinear combinations of Euclidean Lie algebraic generators. The classes are distinguished by different versions of antilinear (PT)-symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring , Thilagarajah Mathanaranjan

Non-Hermitian random matrices have been utilized in such diverse fields as dissipative and stochastic processes, mesoscopic physics, nuclear physics, and neural networks. However, the only known universal level-spacing statistics is that of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-08 Ryusuke Hamazaki , Kohei Kawabata , Naoto Kura , Masahito Ueda

We study an entanglement phase transition in a class of chaotic non-Hermitian spin chains whose spin-spin coupling terms commute with the non-Hermitian contributions. Two representative models are investigated: the transverse-field Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Zhen-Tao Zhang , Feng Mei

We study interacting ultracold atoms in a three-dimensional (3D) harmonic trap with spin-selective dissipations, which can be effectively described by non-Hermitian parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric Hamiltonians. By solving the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-21 Lei Pan , Shu Chen , Xiaoling Cui

The random antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XX and XXZ chain is studied numerically for varying strength of the disorder, using exact diagonalization and stochastic series expansion methods. The spin-spin correlation function as well as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas laflorencie , Heiko Rieger , Anders W. Sandvik , Patrik Henelius

Using a novel approach, we investigate the shape of the average spectrum and the spectral fluctuations of the $k$-body embedded unitary ensemble in the limit of large matrix dimension. We identify the transition point between semicircle and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis Benet , Thomas Rupp , Hans A. Weidenmueller

Parity-time (PT)-symmetric Hamiltonians have widespread significance in non-Hermitian physics. A PT-symmetric Hamiltonian can exhibit distinct phases with either real or complex eigenspectrum, while the transition points in between, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Lei Xiao , Tianshu Deng , Kunkun Wang , Zhong Wang , Wei Yi , Peng Xue

We study quantum chaos and spectral correlations in periodically driven (Floquet) fermionic chains with long-range two-particle interactions, in the presence and absence of particle number conservation ($U(1)$) symmetry. We analytically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Dibyendu Roy , Tomaž Prosen

The spectrum of Hamiltonian (Markov matrix) of a multi-species asymmetric simple exclusion process on a ring is studied. The dynamical exponent concerning the relaxation time is found to coincide with the one-species case. It implies that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 Chikashi Arita , Atsuo Kuniba , Kazumitsu Sakai , Tsuyoshi Sawabe

We study harmonic chains with i.i.d. random spring constants $K_n$ and i.i.d. random masses $m_n$. We introduce a new combinatorial approach which allows to derive a compact approximate expression for the complex Lyapunov exponent, in terms…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-05 Maximilien Bernard , Christophe Texier

We study the effect of gradual symmetry breaking in a non-integrable system on the level fluctuation statistics. We consider the case when the symmetry is represented by a quantum number that takes one of two possible values, so that the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Abd El-Hady , A. Y. Abul-Magd , M. H. Simbel

The problem of characterizing low-temperature spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic spin chains has so far remained elusive. We reinvestigate it by focusing on isotropic antiferromagnetic chains whose low-energy effective field theory is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jacopo De Nardis , Marko Medenjak , Christoph Karrasch , Enej Ilievski

There has been much recent work on the spectrum of the random non-hermitean Hamiltonian which models the physics of vortex line pinning in superconductors. This note is loosely based on the talk I gave at the conference "New Directions in…

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