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Yong-Woo Lee

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arXiv2026

Disc counting statistics of the real Ginibre ensemble

We study the disc counting statistics of the real Ginibre ensemble, whose spectrum consists of real and non-real eigenvalues, the latter occurring in complex-conjugate pairs. As the matrix dimension increases, we derive the asymptotic behaviour of the joint cumulants of the numbers of real and non-real eigenvalues contained in a centred disc in the bulk, edge, and exterior regimes of the circular law. As consequences, we establish a joint central limit theorem and obtain the conjectured asymptotics for the number variance. Furthermore, our results reveal a universality phenomenon: although the fluctuations of the real and non-real eigenvalues separately retain dependence on the symmetry class, their combined fluctuations exhibit the same limiting behaviour as in the previously established complex and symplectic Ginibre ensembles.

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arXiv2026

Confinement transitions in half-space constrained Riesz gases

We study a Riesz gas with interaction parameter $s \in (d-3,d)$ in an arbitrary spatial dimension $d$, confined to a half-space by a hard wall. We prove that the equilibrium measure exhibits a dichotomy according to the interaction range. For $s \in (d-2,d)$, corresponding to the weakly long-ranged regime, the equilibrium measure always retains a non-trivial bulk component and thus is never completely confined to the wall. In contrast, for $s \in (d-3,d-2]$, corresponding to the strongly long-ranged regime, a confinement transition occurs: there exists a critical wall position beyond which the equilibrium measure is supported entirely on the wall. Our theorem generalises recent results established for the Coulomb gas, corresponding to the case $s=d-2$.

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arXiv2026

Moderate-to-large deviation asymptotics for real eigenvalues of the elliptic Ginibre matrices

We study the statistics of the number of real eigenvalues in the elliptic deformation of the real Ginibre ensemble. As the matrix dimension grows, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem for the number of real eigenvalues are well understood, but the probabilities of rare events remain largely unexplored. Large deviation type results have been obtained only in extreme cases, when either a vanishingly small proportion of eigenvalues are real or almost all eigenvalues are real. Here, in both the strong and weak asymmetry regimes, we derive the probabilities of rare events in the moderate-to-large deviation regime, thereby providing a natural connection between the previously known regime of Gaussian fluctuations and the large deviation regime. Our results are new even for the classical real Ginibre ensemble.

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arXiv2026

Upper tail large deviations for extremal eigenvalues of the real, complex and symplectic elliptic Ginibre matrices

We consider the elliptic Ginibre ensembles in the real, complex and symplectic symmetry classes. As the matrix size tends to infinity, we derive the asymptotic behaviour of the upper tail large deviation probabilities for both the spectral radius and the rightmost eigenvalue. More generally, we obtain asymptotic formulas for the probability that an eigenvalue is found in a prescribed region outside the support of the elliptic law, thereby providing a unified framework in which the results for the spectral radius and the rightmost eigenvalue appear as special cases. The key ingredient of our analysis is the precise asymptotic behaviour of the associated one-point functions, which is of independent interest.

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arXiv2025

The probability of almost all eigenvalues being real for the elliptic real Ginibre ensemble

We investigate real eigenvalues of real elliptic Ginibre matrices of size $n$, indexed by the parameter of asymmetry $τ\in [0,1]$. In both the strongly and weakly non-Hermitian regimes, where $τ\in [0,1)$ is fixed or $1-τ=O(1/n)$, respectively, we derive the asymptotic expansion of the probability $p_{n,n-2l}$ that all but a finite number $2l$ of eigenvalues are real. In particular, we show that the expansion is of the form \begin{align*} \log p_{n, n-2l} = \begin{cases} a_1 n^2 +a_2 n + a_3 \log n +O(1) &\text{at strong non-Hermiticity}, \\ b_1 n +b_2 \log n + b_3 +o(1) &\text{at weak non-Hermiticity}, \end{cases} \end{align*} and we determine all coefficients explicitly. Furthermore, in the special case where $l=1$, we derive the full-order expansions. For the proofs, we employ distinct methods for the strongly and weakly non-Hermitian regimes. In the former case, we utilise potential-theoretic techniques to analyse the free energy of elliptic Ginibre matrices conditioned to have $n-2l$ real eigenvalues, together with the strong Szegő limit theorems. In the latter case, we utilise the skew-orthogonal polynomial formalism and the asymptotic behaviour of the Hermite polynomials.

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arXiv2023

Finite size corrections for real eigenvalues of the elliptic Ginibre matrices

We consider the elliptic Ginibre matrices in the orthogonal symmetry class that interpolates between the real Ginibre ensemble and the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble. We obtain the finite size corrections of the real eigenvalue densities in both the global and edge scaling regimes, as well as in both the strong and weak non-Hermiticity regimes. Our results extend and provide the rate of convergence to the previous recent findings in the aforementioned limits. In particular, in the Hermitian limit, our results recover the finite size corrections of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble established by Forrester, Frankel and Garoni.

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arXiv2009

X-ray Astronomy in the Laboratory with a Miniature Compact Object Produced by Laser-Driven Implosion

Laboratory spectroscopy of non-thermal equilibrium plasmas photoionized by intense radiation is a key to understanding compact objects, such as black holes, based on astronomical observations. This paper describes an experiment to study photoionizing plasmas in laboratory under well-defined and genuine conditions. Photoionized plasma is here generated using a 0.5-keV Planckian x-ray source created by means of a laser-driven implosion. The measured x-ray spectrum from the photoionized silicon plasma resembles those observed from the binary stars Cygnus X-3 and Vela X-1 with the Chandra x-ray satellite. This demonstrates that an extreme radiation field was produced in the laboratory, however, the theoretical interpretation of the laboratory spectrum significantly contradicts the generally accepted explanations in x-ray astronomy. This model experiment offers a novel test bed for validation and verification of computational codes used in x-ray astronomy.

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