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System of Majorana zero modes with random infinite range interactions -- the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model -- is thought to exhibit an intriguing relation to the horizons of extremal black holes in two-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS$_2$)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-18 D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

We study a description of the large N limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in terms of quantum mechanics without quenched disorder. Instead of random couplings, we introduce massive scalar fields coupled to fermions, and study a small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Takahiro Nishinaka , Seiji Terashima

Understanding the emergence of complex correlations in strongly interacting systems remains a fundamental challenge in quantum many-body physics. One fruitful approach is to develop solvable toy models that encapsulate universal properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ning Sun , Peng Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

Entanglement is one of the most important concepts in quantum physics. We review recent progress in understanding the quantum entanglement in many-body systems using large-$N$ solvable models: the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Pengfei Zhang

The $S=1/2$ Kitaev honeycomb model has attracted significant attention as an exactly solvable example with a quantum spin liquid ground state. In a properly oriented external magnetic field, chiral Majorana edge modes associated with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Pedro M. Cônsoli , Eric C. Andrade

We study the SYK$_{2}$ model of $N$ Majorana fermions with random quadratic interactions through a detailed spectral analysis and by coupling the model to 2- and 4-point sources. In particular, we define the generalized spectral form factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-11 Pak Hang Chris Lau , Chen-Te Ma , Jeff Murugan , Masaki Tezuka

In this letter, we study the return amplitude, which is the overlap between the initial state and the time evolved state, in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Initial states are taken to be product states in a spin basis. We numerically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Tokiro Numasawa

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which describes $N$ randomly interacting Majorana fermions in 0+1 dimension, is found to be an solvable UV-complete toy model for holographic duality in nearly AdS$_2$ dilaton gravity. Ref. [1] proposed a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Xiao-Liang Qi , Pengfei Zhang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has attracted widespread attention due to its relevance to diverse areas of physics, such as high temperature superconductivity, black holes, and quantum chaos. The model is, however, extremely challenging…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-12 Charles Creffield , Fernando Sols , Marco Schirò , Nathan Goldman

Supersymmetry is a powerful concept in quantum many-body physics. It helps to illuminate ground state properties of complex quantum systems and gives relations between correlation functions. In this work, we show that the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-15 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

We argue that the late time behavior of horizon fluctuations in large anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes is governed by the random matrix dynamics characteristic of quantum chaotic systems. Our main tool is the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model,…

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated quantum system that shows a strong signature of quantum chaos. Due to its chaotic nature, the simulation of real-time dynamics becomes quickly intractable by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Etienne Granet , Yuta Kikuchi , Henrik Dreyer , Enrico Rinaldi

We study a quantum mechanical model proposed by Sachdev, Ye and Kitaev. The model consists of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions of a few fermions at a time. It it tractable in the large $N$ limit, where the classical variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Juan Maldacena , Douglas Stanford

We investigate the time evolution of the complexity of the operator by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $N$ Majorana fermions. We follow Nielsen's idea of complexity geometry and geodesics thereof. We show that it is possible that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-25 Run-Qiu Yang , Keun-Young Kim

We study a large $N$ tensor model with $O(N)^3$ symmetry containing two flavors of Majorana fermions, $\psi_1^{abc}$ and $\psi_2^{abc}$. We also study its random counterpart consisting of two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, each one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Jaewon Kim , Igor R. Klebanov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Wenli Zhao

The random matrix theory (RMT) can be used to classify both topological phases of matter and quantum chaos. We develop a systematic and transformative RMT to classify the quantum chaos in the colored Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Fadi Sun , Yu Yi-Xiang , Jinwu Ye , W. M. Liu

Abstract We study a two-band dispersive Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in 1 + 1 dimension. We suggest a model that describes a semimetal with quadratic dispersion at half-filling. We compute the Green's function at the saddle point using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-05 Geo Jose , Kangjun Seo , Bruno Uchoa

Utilizing singular value decomposition, our investigation focuses on the spectrum of the singular values within a sparse non-Hermitian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Unlike the complex eigenvalues typical of non-Hermitian systems, singular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

By analyzing the global density of states (DOS) in the Double-Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (DSSYK) model, we construct a finite-dimensional Hamiltonian that replicates this DOS. We then tridiagonalize the Hamiltonian to determine the mean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-16 Pratik Nandy

Recent discoveries have highlighted the significance of replica wormholes in resolving the information paradox and establishing the unitarity of black hole evaporation. In this letter, we propose the dissipative Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Hanteng Wang , Chang Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Antonio M. García-García