LEVEL SPACING STATISTICS OF BIDIMENSIONAL FERMI LIQUIDS .2. LANDAU FIXED-POINT AND QUANTUM CHAOS

Authors
Citation
R. Melin, LEVEL SPACING STATISTICS OF BIDIMENSIONAL FERMI LIQUIDS .2. LANDAU FIXED-POINT AND QUANTUM CHAOS, Journal de physique. I, 5(7), 1995, pp. 787-804
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
11554304
Volume
5
Issue
7
Year of publication
1995
Pages
787 - 804
Database
ISI
SICI code
1155-4304(1995)5:7<787:LSSOBF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We investigate the presence of quantum chaos in the spectrum of the bi dimensional Fermi liquid by means of analytical and numerical methods. This model is integrable in a certain limit by bosonization of the Fe rmi surface. We study the effect on the level statistics of the moment um cut-off lambda present in the bidimensional bosonization procedure. We first analyse the level spacing statistics in the lambda-restricte d Hilbert space in one dimension. With g(2) and g(4) interactions, the level statistics are found to be Poissonian at low energies, and G.O. E. at higher energies, for a given cut-off lambda. In order to study t his cross-over, a finite temperature is introduced as a way of focussi ng, for a large inverse temperature beta, on the low energy many-body states, and driving the statistics from G.O.E. to Poissonian. As far a s two dimensions are concerned, we diagonalize the Fermi liquid Hamilt onian with a small number of orbitals. The level spacing statistics ar e found to be Poissonian in the lambda-restricted Hilbert space, provi ded the diagonal elements are of the same order of magnitude as the of f-diagonal matrix elements of the Hamiltonian.