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1Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8440, USA.
Abstract:
We construct a very general family of characteristic functions describing random matrix ensembles (RME) having a global unitary invariance, and containing an arbitrary, one-variable probability measure, which we characterize by a "spread function." Various choices of the spread function lead to a variety of possible generalized RMEs, which show deviations from the well-known Gaussian RME originally proposed by Wigner. We obtain the correlation functions of such generalized ensembles exactly and show examples of how particular choices of the spread function can describe ensembles with arbitrary eigenvalue densities as well as critical ensembles with multifractality.
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