Two-Body Random Ensembles: From Nuclear Spectra to Random Polynomials

Abstract

The two-body random ensemble (TBRE) for a many-body bosonic theory is mapped to a problem of random polynomials on the unit interval. In this way one can understand the predominance of 0+ ground states, and analytic expressions can be derived for distributions of lowest eigenvalues, energy gaps, density of states and so forth. Recently studied nuclear spectroscopic properties are addressed.

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Physical Review Letters