Beugeling, Wouter, Bäcker, Arnd, Moessner, Roderich and Haque, Masudul (2018) Statistical properties of eigenstate amplitudes in complex quantum systems. Physical Review E, 98 (022204). ISSN 1539-3755
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Eigenstate thermalization; Quantum chaos; 1-dimensional spin chains; Quantum billiards; Bose-Hubbard model; Exact diagonalization; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Mathematical Physics |
| Item ID: | 10558 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.022204 |
| Depositing User: | Masud Haque |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2019 16:59 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review E |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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