Statistical Physics @ Trieste blackboard
Course: Random Matrices
by Vladimir Kravtsov



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Random matrix theory and its application to Anderson localization and mesoscopic systems.

Main topics


  • Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory
    • Dyson universality classes
    • eigenvalue statistics
    • eigenfunction statistics
    • crossover between universality classes
    • description in terms of orthogonal polynomilas and nonlinear supersymmetric sigma model
  • Physics of quantum dots and Winger-Dyson random matrix theory
    • statistics of conductances
    • weak localization and magnetoresistance
  • Anderson localization and the relevant random matrix ensembles
    • banded random matrices
    • random matrices with multifractal eigenfunctions
    • critical random matrix ensemble
Lecture notes