A smooth transition towards a Tracy–Widom distribution for the largest eigenvalue of interacting k-body fermionic embedded Gaussian ensembles

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ACC4B4MaRDI QIDQ6040934zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. Benet, Isaac Pérez Castillo

Publication date 25 May 2023

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05730

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value statisticsinteracting many-body systemslarge deviation theoryTracy-Widom distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)

Abstract: In spite of its simplicity, the central limit theorem captures one of the most outstanding phenomena in mathematical physics, that of universality. While this classical result is well understood it is still not very clear what happens to this universal behaviour when the random variables become correlated. A fruitful mathematically laboratory to investigate the rising of new universal properties is offered by the set of eigenvalues of random matrices. In this regard a lot of work has been done using the standard random matrix ensembles and focusing on the distribution of extreme eigenvalues. In this case, the distribution of the largest -- or smallest -- eigenvalue departs from the Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko theorem yielding the celebrated Tracy-Widom distribution. One may wonder, yet again, how robust is this new universal behaviour captured by the Tracy-Widom distribution when the correlation among eigenvalues changes. Few answers have been provided to this poignant question and our intention in the present work is to contribute to this interesting unexplored territory. Thus, we study numerically the probability distribution for the normalized largest eigenvalue of the interacting $k$-body fermionic orthogonal and unitary Embedded Gaussian Ensembles in the diluted limit. We find a smooth transition from a slightly asymmetric Gaussian-like distribution, for small $k/m$, to the Tracy-Widom distribution as $k/mo1$, where $k$ is the rank of the interaction and $m$ is the number of fermions. Correlations at the edge of the spectrum are stronger for small values of $k/m$, and are independent of the number of particles considered. Our results indicate that subtle correlations towards the edge of the spectrum distinguish the statistical properties of the spectrum of interacting many-body systems in the dilute limit, from those expected for the standard random matrix ensembles.

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