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The Spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-05-04 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

The SYK model consists of N1N\gg 1 fermions in 0+10+1 dimensions with a random, all-to-all quartic interaction. Recently, Kitaev has found that the SYK model is maximally chaotic and has proposed it as a model of holography. We solve the Schwinger-Dyson equation and compute the spectrum of two-particle states in SYK, finding both a continuous and discrete tower. The four-point function is expressed as a sum over the spectrum. The sum over the discrete tower is evaluated.

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@article{arxiv.1601.06768,
  title  = {The Spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model},
  author = {Joseph Polchinski and Vladimir Rosenhaus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06768},
  year   = {2016}
}

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29 pages, 2 figures

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