Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis for Generalized Wigner Matrices

Authors Arka Adhikari, Sofiia Dubova, C. J. Xu, Jun Yin

Publication date 31 January 2023

Abstract: In this paper, we extend results of Eigenvector Thermalization to the case of generalized Wigner matrices. Analytically, the central quantity of interest here are multiresolvent traces, such as

L a m b d a_{A} := f r a c 1 N e x t T r G A G A

. In the case of Wigner matrices, as in cite{cipolloni-erdos-schroder-2021}, one can form a self-consistent equation for a single

L a m b d a_{A}

. There are multiple difficulties extending this logic to the case of general covariances. The correlation structure prevents us from deriving a self-consistent equation for a single matrix

A

; this is due to the introduction of new terms that are quite distinct from the form of

L a m b d a_{A}

. We find a way around this by carefully splitting these new terms and writing them as sums of

L a m b d a_{B}

, for matrices

B

obtained by modifying

A

using the covariance matrix. The result is a system of self-consistent equations relating families of deterministic matrices. Our main effort in this work is to derive and analyze this system of self-consistent equations.

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