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We study a sparse version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model defined on random hypergraphs constructed either by a random pruning procedure or by randomly sampling regular hypergraphs. The resulting model has a new parameter, $k$, defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-07 Shenglong Xu , Leonard Susskind , Yuan Su , Brian Swingle

We discuss a supersymmetric generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. These are quantum mechanical models involving $N$ Majorana fermions. The supercharge is given by a polynomial expression in terms of the Majorana fermions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Wenbo Fu , Davide Gaiotto , Juan Maldacena , Subir Sachdev

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a rare example of a strongly-interacting system that is analytically tractable. Tractability arises because the model is largely structureless by design and therefore artificial: while the interaction is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera , Ferdinand Evers

The short time (large energy) behavior of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is one of the main motivation to the growing interest garnered by this model. True chaotic behaviour sets in at the Thouless time, which can be extracted from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-08 Richard Berkovits

We study a sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $N$ Majoranas where only $\sim k N$ independent matrix elements are non-zero. We identify a minimum $k \gtrsim 1$ for quantum chaos to occur by a level statistics analysis. The spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

In this paper, we investigate the effect of supersymmetry on the symmetry classification of random matrix theory ensembles. We mainly consider the random matrix behaviors in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Tianlin Li , Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin , Yehao Zhou

Inspired by recent developments in the study of the model of double scaled SYK (DSSYK), as elucidated in a recent paper, we embark on a re-evaluation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Our motivation stems from the insights gained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Davood Momeni

The complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is a charge-conserving model of randomly interacting fermions. The interaction term can be chosen such that the model exhibits chiral symmetry. Then, depending on the charge sector and the number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

We compute the thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models of fermions with a conserved fermion number, $\mathcal{Q}$. We extend a previously proposed Schwarzian effective action to include a phase field, and this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Richard A. Davison , Wenbo Fu , Antoine Georges , Yingfei Gu , Kristan Jensen , Subir Sachdev

A class of tensor models were recently outlined as potentially calculable examples of holography: their perturbative large-$N$ behavior is similar to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, but they are fully quantum mechanical (in the sense…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-04 Chethan Krishnan , Sambuddha Sanyal , P. N. Bala Subramanian

Many key features of the higher-dimensional Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at {\it finite} $N$ remain unknown. Here we study the SYK chain consisting of $N$ ($N$$\ge$$2$) fermions per site with random interactions and hoppings between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-16 Xin Dai , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

We present a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical studies of non-Fermi liquids in condensed matter physics. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Debanjan Chowdhury , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Subir Sachdev

The sparse version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model reproduces essential features of the original SYK model while reducing the number of disorder parameters. In this paper, we propose a further simplification of the model which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Masaki Tezuka , Onur Oktay , Enrico Rinaldi , Masanori Hanada , Franco Nori

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is renowned for its short-time chaotic behavior, which plays a fundamental role in its application to various fields such as quantum gravity and holography. The Thouless energy, representing the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-17 Richard Berkovits

We present an exact solution in the large-$N$ limit of the L\'{e}vy Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (LSYK) model introduced in Ref. [1], wherein the couplings are drawn from a L\'{e}vy Stable distribution parameterized by a tail exponent $\mu \in [0,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , William. E. Salazar , Alexei Andreanov , Dario Rosa

We show analytically that the spectral density of the $q$-body Sachdeev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model agrees with that of Q-Hermite polynomials with Q a non-trivial function of $q \ge 2$ and the number of Majorana fermions $N \gg 1$. Numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Antonio M. García-García , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Several condensed-matter platforms have been proposed recently to realize the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in their low-energy limit. In these proposed realizations, the characteristic SYK behavior is expected to occur under certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-18 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Chengshu Li , Marcel Franz

We consider the graphs involved in the theoretical physics model known as the colored Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We study in detail their combinatorial properties at any order in the so-called $1/N$ expansion, and we enumerate these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Éric Fusy , Luca Lionni , Adrian Tanasa

It is known that, for a range of chemical potentials, the infrared behavior of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is governed by a 1D Nearly Conformal Field Theory (NCFT$_{1}$), thereby realizing a continuous line of NCFTs. A finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Can Onur Akyuz , Erick Arguello Cruz , Ludo Fraser-Taliente , Grigory Tarnopolsky

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model provides an analytically tractable framework for exotic strongly correlated phases where conventional paradigms like Landau's Fermi liquid theory collapse. This review offers a pedagogical introduction to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Rishabh Jha