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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Tong, Xianlong, Gao
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Liu, Tong
Xianlong, Gao
author_facet Liu, Tong
Xianlong, Gao
contents Critical eigenstates are usually identified through wave-function geometry in a chosen basis, such as participation ratios, multifractal spectra, or finite-size scaling. Here we formulate criticality instead as a dual-space Lyapunov property. We prove a Fourier exclusion principle: exponential localization in one representation is incompatible with exponential localization in its Fourier-dual representation. This turns the Liu--Xia condition, \(γ_x(E)=γ_m(E)=0\), from a phenomenological criterion into a rigorous length-scale statement: a critical state is characterized by the simultaneous absence of exponential confinement in real and momentum space. The criterion is invariant under bounded local gauge transformations of the transfer matrix and remains compatible with conventional single-space multifractal diagnostics. More importantly, it is exactly predictive. In analytically tractable quasiperiodic models, the same condition yields closed-form critical lines, an exact finite critical region with an additional critical branch, and a complex critical surface in a non-Hermitian non-self-dual spectrum. Thus the Liu--Xia condition provides not only a diagnostic of critical states, but an exact solvability principle for locating critical sets across distinct microscopic structures.
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spellingShingle Lyapunov Exponents as Duality-Invariant Signatures of Critical States
Liu, Tong
Xianlong, Gao
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Critical eigenstates are usually identified through wave-function geometry in a chosen basis, such as participation ratios, multifractal spectra, or finite-size scaling. Here we formulate criticality instead as a dual-space Lyapunov property. We prove a Fourier exclusion principle: exponential localization in one representation is incompatible with exponential localization in its Fourier-dual representation. This turns the Liu--Xia condition, \(γ_x(E)=γ_m(E)=0\), from a phenomenological criterion into a rigorous length-scale statement: a critical state is characterized by the simultaneous absence of exponential confinement in real and momentum space. The criterion is invariant under bounded local gauge transformations of the transfer matrix and remains compatible with conventional single-space multifractal diagnostics. More importantly, it is exactly predictive. In analytically tractable quasiperiodic models, the same condition yields closed-form critical lines, an exact finite critical region with an additional critical branch, and a complex critical surface in a non-Hermitian non-self-dual spectrum. Thus the Liu--Xia condition provides not only a diagnostic of critical states, but an exact solvability principle for locating critical sets across distinct microscopic structures.
title Lyapunov Exponents as Duality-Invariant Signatures of Critical States
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10746