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Time-reversal symmetry and random polynomials

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, , Citation Daniel Braun et al 1997 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 L117 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/30/6/002

0305-4470/30/6/L117

Abstract

We analyse the density of roots of random polynomials where each complex coefficient is constructed of a random modulus and a fixed, deterministic phase. The density of roots is shown to possess a singular component only in the case for which the phases increase linearly with the index of coefficients. This means that, contrary to earlier belief, eigenvectors of a typical quantum chaotic system with some antiunitary symmetry will not display a clustering curve in the stellar representation. Moreover, a class of time-reverse invariant quantum systems is shown, for which spectra display fluctuations characteristic of orthogonal ensemble, while eigenvectors confer to predictions of unitary ensemble.

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10.1088/0305-4470/30/6/002