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Power-law out of time order correlation functions in the SYK model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-07-05 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We evaluate the finite temperature partition sum and correlation functions of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Starting from a recently proposed mapping of the SYK model onto Liouville quantum mechanics, we obtain our results by exact integration over conformal Goldstone modes reparameterizing physical time. Perhaps, the least expected result of our analysis is that at time scales proportional to the number of particles the out of time order correlation function crosses over from a regime of exponential decay to a universal t6t^{-6} power-law behavior.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08902,
  title  = {Power-law out of time order correlation functions in the SYK model},
  author = {Dmitry Bagrets and Alexander Altland and Alex Kamenev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08902},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

25 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, version accepted for publication