The spectral form factor is not self-averaging

Details The spectral form factor is not self-averaging The spectral form factor is not self-averaging

1996-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9606010v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, RevTex, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., permanent e-mail address, prange@quantum.umd.edu

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2280

The spectral form factor, k(t), is the Fourier transform of the two level correlation function C(x), which is the averaged probability for finding two energy levels spaced x mean level spacings apart. The average is over a piece of the spectrum of width W in the neighborhood of energy E0. An additional ensemble average is traditionally carried out, as in random matrix theory. Recently a theoretical calculation of k(t) for a single system, with an energy average only, found interesting nonuniversal semiclassical effects at times t approximately unity in units of {Planck's constant) /(mean level spacing). This is of great interest if k(t) is self-averaging, i.e, if the properties of a typical member of the ensemble are the same as the ensemble average properties. We here argue that this is not always the case, and that for many important systems an ensemble average is essential to see detailed properties of k(t). In other systems, notably the Riemann zeta function, it is likely possible to see the properties by an analysis of the spectrum.

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