Disordered random matrices

Random Matrices and Supersymmetry in Disordered Systems

It is described how one comes to the Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory (RMT) starting from a model of a disordered metal. The lectures start with a historical introduction where basic ideas of the RMT and theory of disordered metals are reviewed. This part is followed by an introduction into supermathematics (mathematics operating with both commuting and anticommuting variables). The main ideas...

Products of random matrices for disordered systems.

Products of random transfer matrices are applied to low dimensional disordered systems to evaluate numerically extensive quantities such as entropy and overlap probability distribution. The main advantage is the possibility to avoid numerical differentiation. The method works for arbitrary disorder distributions at any temperature. 75.10.Nr, 05.50.+q, 02.50.+s Typeset using REVTEX 1 Products of...

Random Matrices and Random Boxes

OF THE DISSERTATION Random matrices and random boxes by Linh V. Tran Dissertation Director: Prof. Van Vu This thesis concerns two questions on random structures: the semi-circular law for adjacency matrix of regular random graph and the piercing number for random boxes. • Random matrices We proved in full generality the semi-circular law for random d-regular graph model in the case d tends to i...

Random Growth and Random Matrices

We give a survey of some of the recent results on certain two-dimensional random growth models and their relation to random matrix theory, in particular to the Tracy-Widom distribution for the largest eigenvalue. The problems are related to that of finding the length of the longest increasing subsequence in a random permutation. We also give a new approach to certain results for the Schur measu...

An Introduction to Random Matrices An Introduction to Random Matrices