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The concept of fidelity has been introduced to characterize the stability of a quantum-mechanical system against perturbations. The fidelity amplitude is defined as the overlap integral of a wave packet with itself after the development forth and back under the influence of two slightly different Hamiltonians. It was shown by Prosen and Znidaric in the linear-response approximation that the decay of the fidelity is frozen if the Hamiltonian of the perturbation contains off-diagonal elements only. In the present work the results of Prosen and Znidaric are extended by a supersymmetry calculation to arbitrary strengths of the perturbation for the case of an unperturbed Hamiltonian taken from the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble and a purely unitary antisymmetric perturbation. It is found that for the exact calculation the freeze of fidelity is only slightly reduced as compared to the linear-response approximation. This may have important consequences for the design of quantum computers.
The exact solutions of the $D^{(1)}_3$ model (or the $so(6)$ quantum spin chain) with either periodic or general integrable open boundary conditions are obtained by using the off-diagonal Bethe Ansatz. From the fusion, the complete operator product identities are obtained, which are sufficient to enable us to determine spectrum of the system. Eigenvalues of the fused transfer matrices are constructed by the $T-Q$ relations for the periodic case and by the inhomogeneous $T-Q$ one for the non-diagonal boundary reflection case. The present method can be generalized to deal with the $D^{(1)}_{n}$ model directly.
The statistics of random-matrix spectra can be very sensitive to the unfolding procedure that separates global from local properties. In order to avoid the introduction of possible artifacts, recently it has been applied to ergodic ensembles of Random Matrix Theory (RMT) the singular value decomposition (SVD) method, based on normal mode analysis, which characterizes the long-range correlations of the spectral fluctuations in a direct way without performing any unfolding. However, in the case of more general ensembles, the ergodicity property is often broken leading to ambiguities between spectrum-unfolded and ensemble-unfolded fluctuation statistics. Here, we apply SVD to a disordered random-matrix ensemble with tunable nonergodicity, as a mathematical framework to characterize the nonergodicity. We show that ensemble-averaged and individual-spectrum averaged statistics are calculated consistently using the same normal mode basis, and the nonergodicity is explained as a breakdown of this common basis.
The generic quantum $tau_2$-model (also known as Baxter-Bazhanov-Stroganov (BBS) model) with periodic boundary condition is studied via the off-diagonal Bethe Ansatz method. The eigenvalues of the corresponding transfer matrix (solutions of the recursive functional relations in $tau_j$-hierarchy) with generic site-dependent inhomogeneity parameters are given in terms of an inhomogeneous T-Q relation with polynomial Q-functions. The associated Bethe Ansatz equations are obtained. Numerical solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations for small number of sites indicate that the inhomogeneous T-Q relation does indeed give the complete spectrum.
A key goal of quantum chaos is to establish a relationship between widely observed universal spectral fluctuations of clean quantum systems and random matrix theory (RMT). For single particle systems with fully chaotic classical counterparts, the problem has been partly solved by Berry (1985) within the so-called diagonal approximation of semiclassical periodic-orbit sums. Derivation of the full RMT spectral form factor $K(t)$ from semiclassics has been completed only much later in a tour de force by Mueller et al (2004). In recent years, the questions of long-time dynamics at high energies, for which the full many-body energy spectrum becomes relevant, are coming at the forefront even for simple many-body quantum systems, such as locally interacting spin chains. Such systems display two universal types of behaviour which are termed as `many-body localized phase and `ergodic phase. In the ergodic phase, the spectral fluctuations are excellently described by RMT, even for very simple interactions and in the absence of any external source of disorder. Here we provide the first theoretical explanation for these observations. We compute $K(t)$ explicitly in the leading two orders in $t$ and show its agreement with RMT for non-integrable, time-reversal invariant many-body systems without classical counterparts, a generic example of which are Ising spin 1/2 models in a periodically kicking transverse field.
We present a simple, perturbative approach for calculating spectral densities for random matrix ensembles in the thermodynamic limit we call the Perturbative Resolvent Method (PRM). The PRM is based on constructing a linear system of equations and calculating how the solutions to these equation change in response to a small perturbation using the zero-temperature cavity method. We illustrate the power of the method by providing simple analytic derivations of the Wigner Semi-circle Law for symmetric matrices, the Marchenko-Pastur Law for Wishart matrices, the spectral density for a product Wishart matrix composed of two square matrices, and the Circle and elliptic laws for real random matrices.