arXiv · cond-mat/0106640
Orthogonality Catastrophe in Parametric Random Matrices
Abstract
We study the orthogonality catastrophe due to a parametric change of the single-particle (mean field) Hamiltonian of an ergodic system. The Hamiltonian is modeled by a suitable random matrix ensemble. We show that the overlap between the original and the parametrically modified many-body ground states, $S$, taken as Slater determinants, decreases like $n^{-k x^2}$, where $n$ is the number of electrons in the systems, $k$ is a numerical constant of the order of one, and $x$ is the deformation measured in units of the typical distance between anticrossings. We show that the statistical fluctuations of $S$ are largely due to properties of the levels near the Fermi energy.
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Raul O. Vallejos, Caio H. Lewenkopf, Yuval Gefen. 2001-06-29. Orthogonality Catastrophe in Parametric Random Matrices. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.65.085309
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