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arXiv:0804.3685 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

The Berry-Tabor conjecture for spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type

J. C. Barba, F. Finkel, A. González-López, M. A. Rodríguez

Published Jun 27, 2008• 29 citations
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Abstract

According to a long-standing conjecture of Berry and Tabor, the distribution of the spacings between consecutive levels of a “generic” integrable model should follow Poisson's law. In contrast, the spacings distribution of chaotic systems typically follows Wigner's law. An important exception to the Berry-Tabor conjecture is the integrable spin chain with long-range interactions introduced by Haldane and Shastry in 1988, whose spacings distribution is neither Poissonian nor of Wigner's type. In this letter we argue that the cumulative spacings distribution of this chain should follow the “square root of a logarithm” law recently proposed by us as a characteristic feature of all spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type. We also show in detail that the latter law is valid for the rational counterpart of the Haldane-Shastry chain introduced by Polychronakos.

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/83/27005

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We compute the partition function of the su(m)\text{su}(m)su(m) Polychronakos-Frahm spin chain of BCNB{C}_{N}BCN​ type by means of the freezing trick. We use this partition function to study several statistical properties of the spectrum, which turn out to be analogous to those of other spin chains of Haldane--Shastry type. In particular, we find that when the number of particles is sufficiently large the level density follows a Gaussian distribution with great accuracy. We also show that the distribution of (normalized) spacings between consecutive levels is of neither Poisson nor Wigner type but is qualitatively similar to that of the original Haldane--Shastry spin chain. This suggests that spin chains of Haldane--Shastry type are exceptional integrable models since they do not satisfy a well-known conjecture of Berry and Tabor, according to which the spacings distribution of a generic integrable system should be Poissonian. We derive a simple analytic expression for the cumulative spacings distribution of the BCNB{C}_{N}BCN​-type Polychronakos-Frahm chain using only a few essential properties of its spectrum such as the Gaussian character of the level density and the fact that the energy levels are equally spaced. This expression is shown to be in excellent agreement with the numerical data.
We derive an exact expression for the partition function of the su(m)\mathrm{su}(m)su(m) Haldane-Shastry spin chain, which we use to study the density of levels and the distribution of the spacing between consecutive levels. Our computations show that when the number of sites NNN is large enough, the level density is Gaussian to a very high degree of approximation. More surprisingly, we also find that the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution is not Poissonian, so that this model departs from the typical behavior for an integrable system. We show that the cumulative spacing distribution of the model can be well approximated by a simple functional law involving only three parameters.
The Haldane-Shastry model is one of the most studied interacting spin systems. The Yangian symmetry makes it exactly solvable, and the model has semionic excitations. We introduce disorder into the Haldane-Shastry model by allowing the spins to sit at random positions on the unit circle and study the properties of the eigenstates. At weak disorder, the spectrum is similar to the spectrum of the clean Haldane-Shastry model. At strong disorder, the long-range interactions in the model do not decay as a simple power law. The eigenstates in the middle of the spectrum follow a volume law, but the coefficient is small, and the entropy is hence much less than for an ergodic system. In addition, the energy level spacing statistics is neither Poissonian nor of the Wigner-Dyson type. The behavior at strong disorder hence serves as an example of a nonergodic phase, which is not of the many-body localized kind, in a model with long-range interactions and SU(2) symmetry.
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