Beugeling, Wouter and Bäcker, Arnd and Moessner, Roderich and Haque, Masudul
(2018)
Statistical properties of eigenstate amplitudes in complex quantum systems.
Physical Review E, 98 (022204).
ISSN 1539-3755
Abstract
We study the eigenstates of quantum systems with large Hilbert spaces, via their distribution of wave-function amplitudes in a real-space basis. For single-particle “quantum billiards,” these real-space amplitudes are known to have Gaussian distribution for chaotic systems. In this work, we formulate and address the corresponding question for many-body lattice quantum systems. For integrable many-body systems, we examine the deviation from Gaussianity and provide evidence that the distribution generically tends toward power-law behavior in the limit of large sizes. We relate the deviation from Gaussianity to the entanglement content of many-body eigenstates. For integrable billiards, we find several cases where the distribution has power-law tails.
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