Limit distributions of many-particle spectra

Abstract

We find the limit distributions for a spectrum of a system of n particles governed by a k-body interaction. The hamiltonian of this system is modelled by a Gaussian random matrix. We show that the limit distribution is a q-deformed Gaussian distribution with the deformation parameter q depending on the value of the fraction \frac{k}{\sqrt{n}}. The family of q-deformed Gaussian distributions include the Gaussian distribution and the semicircular law; therefore our result is a generalization of the results of Wigner, Mon and French.