Lévy-Rosenzweig-Porter random matrix ensemble

In this paper, we consider an extension of the Rosenzweig-Porter model, the L\'evy-RP (L-RP) model, in which the off-diagonal matrix elements are broadly distributed, providing a more realistic benchmark to develop an effective description of nonergodic extended (NEE) states in interacting many-body disordered systems. We put forward a simple, general, and intuitive argument that allows one to unveil the multifractal structure of the minibands in the local spectrum when hybridization is due to anomalously large transition amplitudes in the tails of the distribution. The idea is that the energy spreading of the minibands can be determined self-consistently by requiring that the maximal hybridization rate H₈₉ between a site i and the other N^{D₁} sites of the support set is of the same order of the Thouless energy itself N^{D₁-1}. This argument yields the fractal dimensions that characterize the statistics of the multifractal wave functions in the NEE phase, as well as the whole phase diagram of the L-RP ensemble. Its predictions are confirmed both analytically, by a thorough investigation of the self-consistent equation for the local density of states obtained using the cavity approach, and numerically, via extensive exact diagonalizations.