Contrary to the prevailing notion, we find that the spectrum associated with the extended states in a complex system may belong to the Poisson universality class if the system is subjected to a specific set of constraints. Our results are based on an exact theoretical as well as numerical analysis of column constrained chiral ensembles with circulant off-diagonal blocks and are relevant for a complete understanding of the eigenfunction localization and related physical properties.
We numerically analyze the statistical properties of complex system with conditions subjecting the matrix elements to a set of specific constraints besides symmetry, resulting in various structures in their matrix representation. Our results reveal an important trend: while the spectral statistics is strongly sensitive to the number of independent matrix elements, the eigenfunction statistics seems to be affected only by their relative strengths. This is contrary to previously held belief of one to one relation between the statistics of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues (e.g. associating Poisson statistics to the localized eigenfunctions and Wigner-Dyson statistics to delocalized ones).
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