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Precise Low-Temperature Expansions for the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-07-19 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We solve numerically the large NN Dyson-Schwinger equations for the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model utilizing the Legendre polynomial decomposition and reaching 103610^{-36} accuracy. Using this we compute the energy of the SYK model at low temperatures TJT\ll J and obtain its series expansion up to T7.54T^{7.54}. While it was suggested that the expansion contains terms T3.77T^{3.77} and T5.68T^{5.68}, we find that the first non-integer power of temperature is T6.54T^{6.54}, which comes from the two point function of the fermion bilinear operator Oh1=χτ3χO_{h_{1}}=\chi \partial_{\tau}^{3}\chi with scaling dimension h13.77h_{1}\approx 3.77. The coefficient in front of T6.54T^{6.54} term agrees well with the prediction of the conformal perturbation theory. We conclude that the conformal perturbation theory appears to work even though the SYK model is not strictly conformal.

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@article{arxiv.2206.13547,
  title  = {Precise Low-Temperature Expansions for the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model},
  author = {Erick Arguello Cruz and Grigory Tarnopolsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13547},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures

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