2.1. The fraction of REAL eigenvalues


As D is positive and hermitian, its eigenvalues are positive and REAL. Conversely, Φ’s eigenvalues are generally CPLX. Namely that, on average, for a single N2×N2 superoperator Φ, its N2 eigenvalues can be classified in three family:

  • One simple eigenvalue equal to +1 ;
  • NR(N) REAL eigenvalues from the open interval (-1,+1) ;
  • NC(N) CPLX eigenvalues from the interior of the unit circle |z|<1  .
Of course the following balance equation has to be fulfilled:

                          (3)

In the next table. (1) we display the outcome of a simulation. We generate a certain number M of N2−dimensional superoperator Φ according to the Hans-Jürgen algorithm, and we diagonalize them, listing the number of eigenvalues falling into the three families of the very previous list.

Of course  # ALL = M N2  ;  # 1 = M  ;  # REAL = M NR(N)  and  # CPLX = M NC(N)  .

 
N N2 M :
Number of
matrices
Eigenvalues’s Counting Comp.
Time
(hours)
# ALL # 1 # REAL # CPLX
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
12
14
4
9
16
25
36
49
64
100
144
196
90000000
17000000
4200000
1300000
500000
210000
90000
75000
27000
9000
360000000
153000000
67200000
32500000
18000000
10290000
5760000
7500000
3888000
1764000
90000000
17000000
4200000
1300000
500000
210000
90000
75000
27000
9000
139221060
45132048
14795938
5660628
2587686
1257274
610722
630110
269494
104478
130778940
90867952
48204062
25539372
14912314
8822726
5059278
6794890
3591506
1650522
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
12
12
12


Table 1: Eigenvalues’s Counting

The number of matrices that has been used varies. Namely that it has been determined has a good compromise between smoothness of the 3-dimensional surfaces of fig. (2) and fig. (3) and the computational time, displayed in the last column.

Once the dimension N has been chosen, eq. (3) make it apparent how just one parameter is neded, for instance NR(N), for completely determine all the quantities.

The N2xN2 superoperator Φ can be decomposed as

where the (N2−1)−dimensional vector Φ0 represent a translation while the (N2−1)x(N2−1) dimensional matrix Φ’ represent a real antisymmetric contraction. Thus, the statistics of Φ is determined by the statistics of Φ’, which contains the NR(N) REAL and the NC(N) CPLX eigenvalues different from +1. We now fix

and make our ansatz:

We believe that the statistics of eigenvalues of very large m x m real antisymmetric contraction Φ’ embedded in a superoperator Φ tends eventually to that of the REAL ginibre ensemble GinOE(m), the ensemble of m x m REAL matrices whose entries are normally distributed.

If it is so, at least for large N, we can expect the scaling behavior of 〈NR(N)〉Φ , becomes that of the average number of eigenvalues in the REAL ginibre ensemble, hereafter indicated with 〈NR(N)〉RG (although we are going to use expressions like 〈NR(N)〉RG, please, keep in mind relation between m and N, given by m = N2 − 1).
From [Som07], [EK95] and [Ede97], we know the analytic expressions

(4)

The latter symbol 〈NR(N)〉as denotes the asymptotic scaling of 〈NR(N)〉RG .

We now compute our numerical estimation of 〈NR(N)〉Φ  from table. (1), simply considering the ratio 〈NR(N)〉Φ = # REAL / M , and compare such result with the analytical estimations of 〈NR(N)〉RG and 〈NR(N)〉as yielded by eq. (4).

Moreover we compute and display in table. (2) also the correspondent density of REAL eigenvalues

                               

(5)

 
N m
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
12
14
3
8
15
24
35
48
63
99
143
195
1.54690
2.65483
3.52284
4.35433
5.17537
5.98702
6.78580
8.40147
9.98126
11.60870
1.70711
2.65027
3.51264
4.34759
5.16969
5.98467
6.79528
8.40876
10.01628
11.62042
1.38198
2.25676
3.09019
3.90882
4.72035
5.52791
6.33301
7.93885
9.54131
11.14185
0.89310
0.93862
0.90959
0.88882
0.87480
0.86415
0.85493
0.84438
0.83467
0.83131
0.98560
0.93701
0.90696
0.88745
0.87384
0.86381
0.85612
0.84511
0.83760
0.83216


Table 2: Fraction of REAL eigenvalues


Finally, we plot in Fig. (1) the last three column of table. (2).

 




Figure 1: Numerical, theoretical, and asymptotical ratios

This plot shows the asymptotical similarities of the ratio of rescaled REAL eigenvalues for two cases:

  • N2−dimensional superoperators Φ (function ηRΦ(N), in red line);
  • N2−dim. matrices from the REAL Ginibre ensemble (ηRRG(N), in green line).
Moreover, both the 2 ratios do converge to the asymptote ηRas (blu line), for eventually large N.