Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vanhala, Tuomas I., Järvelin, Niklas, Ojanen, Teemu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17649
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910804649967616
author Vanhala, Tuomas I.
Järvelin, Niklas
Ojanen, Teemu
author_facet Vanhala, Tuomas I.
Järvelin, Niklas
Ojanen, Teemu
contents Fractal dimensions have been used as a quantitative measure for structure of eigenstates of quantum many-body systems, useful for comparison to random matrix theory predictions or to distinguish many-body localized systems from chaotic ones. For chaotic systems at midspectrum the states are expected to be ``ergodic'', infinite temperature states with all fractal dimensions approaching 1 in the thermodynamic limit. However, when moving away from midspectrum, the states develop structure, as they are expected to follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, with few-body observables predicted by a finite-temperature ensemble. We discuss how this structure of the observables can be used to bound the fractal dimensions from above, thus explaining their typical arc-shape over the energy spectrum. We then consider how such upper bounds act as a proxy for the fractal dimension over the many-body localization transition, thus formally connecting the single-particle and Fock space pictures discussed in the literature.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2501_17649
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Bounding multifractality by observables
Vanhala, Tuomas I.
Järvelin, Niklas
Ojanen, Teemu
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
Fractal dimensions have been used as a quantitative measure for structure of eigenstates of quantum many-body systems, useful for comparison to random matrix theory predictions or to distinguish many-body localized systems from chaotic ones. For chaotic systems at midspectrum the states are expected to be ``ergodic'', infinite temperature states with all fractal dimensions approaching 1 in the thermodynamic limit. However, when moving away from midspectrum, the states develop structure, as they are expected to follow the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, with few-body observables predicted by a finite-temperature ensemble. We discuss how this structure of the observables can be used to bound the fractal dimensions from above, thus explaining their typical arc-shape over the energy spectrum. We then consider how such upper bounds act as a proxy for the fractal dimension over the many-body localization transition, thus formally connecting the single-particle and Fock space pictures discussed in the literature.
title Bounding multifractality by observables
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17649