A trivial observation on time reversal in random matrix theory

A trivial observation on time reversal in random matrix theory

It is commonly thought that a state-dependent quantity, after being averaged over a classical ensemble of random Hamiltonians, will always become independent of the state. We point out that this is in general incorrect: if the ensemble of Hamiltonians is time reversal invariant, and the quantity involves the state in higher than bilinear order, then we show that the quantity is only a constant ...

Notes on Random Matrix Theory

3 Universality 4 3.1 Macroscopic behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.1 Wigner’s semicircle law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 Microscopic behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2.1 Bulk universality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Lectures on Random Matrix Theory

A Random Surface Theory with Non-trivial String

We measure by Monte Carlo simulations string for a model of random surfaces embedded in three dimensional Euclidean space-time. The action of the string is the usual Polyakov action plus an extrinsic curvature term. The system undergoes a phase transition at a nite value c of the extrinsic curvature coupling and at the transition point the numerically measured value of string (c) 0:27 0:06. Thi...

Universality in Random Matrix Theory

which is the Central Limit Theorem. In principle, all the random variables X1, X2, · · · , XN can be of order 1, hence SN ∼ 1 as well, but the probability of having such a rare event is incredibly small. We can even estimate the bound on the probability for the rare event from the large deviation principle. A similar phenomenon happens when we form a large matrix from i.i.d. random variables an...