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Level statistics in the fractal phase of generalized Rosenzweig--Porter models

Jul 2026 · 0 citations · 18 references
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Abstract

The Rosenzweig--Porter (RP) random matrix ensemble has emerged as a minimal model for the integrability-to-chaos crossover in quantum many-body systems. Its phase diagram features a region with fractal eigenstates, exhibiting intermediate spectral and localization properties between the fully localized and fully delocalized regimes. In this work, we explore several generalizations of the RP model and determine their level statistics at the scale of the Thouless energy $E_T$, which characterizes the crossover. Using tools from free probability theory and the replica method, we compute the full counting statistics in the limit of large system size, and show that it takes a simple, universal scaling form around $E_T$, shared across all variations of the model. We validate our analytical predictions using exact numerical diagonalization of large samples, and large-deviation algorithms that resolve the full counting statistics down to probabilities as low as $10^{-40}$. We also contrast our predictions with measurements on the quantum random energy model, which is the simplest model displaying many-body localization.

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