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SYK model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions which is solvable at strong coupling and plays an important role as perhaps the simplest holographic model of quantum gravity and black holes. The present work considers a deformed SYK…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Avinash Dhar , Adwait Gaikwad , Lata Kh Joshi , Gautam Mandal , Spenta R. Wadia

We propose a quantum mechanical theory of quantum spaces described by large $N$ noncommutative geometry as a model for quantum gravity. The model admits fuzzy sphere as static solution. Over the fuzzy geometry, the quantum mechanics of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-13 Chong-Sun Chu

The IR dynamics of SYK is that of the Schwarzian theory, the effective theory of broken reparametrization invariance. In the double scaling limit, SYK is completely solvable by chord diagrams, whose generating functional is a bilocal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Micha Berkooz , Ronny Frumkin , Ohad Mamroud , Josef Seitz

Using the canonical quantum theory of spherically symmetric pure gravitational systems, we present a direct correspondence between the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model in the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ortiz , J. J. Rosales , J. Socorro , V. I. Tkach

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a system of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions and strongly chaotic dynamics, which at low energy admits a holographically dual description as two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Hence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Patrick Orman , Hrant Gharibyan , John Preskill

We propose a quantum model of the Schwarzschild black hole as a quantum mechanics of a system of fermionic degrees of freedom. The system has a constant density of states and a Fermi energy that is inversely proportional to the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao

We consider the loop quantum theory of the spherically symmetric model of gravity coupled to Gaussian dust fields, where the Gaussian dust fields provide a material reference frame of the space and time to deparameterize gravity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-25 Cong Zhang

The physics of the SYK model at low temperatures is dominated by a soft mode governed by the Schwarzian action. In arXiv:1604.07818 the linearised action was derived from the soft mode contribution to the four-point function, and physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Marta Bucca , Márk Mezei

We study a Hamiltonian quantum formalism of a spherically symmetric space-time which can be identified with the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole. The phase space of this model is spanned by two dynamical variables and their conjugate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-10 Shahram Jalalzadeh , Babak Vakili

We study the 2D fermionic SYK model with Majorana fermions, featuring a quartic kinetic term and a $2q$-body interaction with Gaussian disorder. By minimizing the effective action or solving the SD equation for $q=1$, we determine that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

We derive a path-integral Schwinger-Keldysh approach for quantum spin systems. This is achieved by means of a semionic representation of spins as fermions with imaginary chemical potential. The major simplifying feature in comparison with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 M. N. Kiselev , R. Oppermann

We obtain exact expressions for a general class of correlation functions in the 1D quantum mechanical model described by the Schwarzian action, that arises as the low energy limit of the SYK model. The answer takes the form of an integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Thomas G. Mertens , Gustavo J. Turiaci , Herman L. Verlinde

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model may provide us with a good starting point for the experimental study of quantum chaos and holography in the laboratory. Still, the four-local interaction of fermions makes quantum simulation challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Masanori Hanada , Sam van Leuven , Onur Oktay , Masaki Tezuka

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

This is the first part of a series of papers on the spectrum of the SYK model, which is a simple model of the black hole in physics literature. In this paper, we will give a rigorous proof of the almost sure convergence of the global…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Renjie Feng , Gang Tian , Dongyi Wei

We study the stability of the SYK$_4$ model with a large but finite number of fermions $N$ with respect to a perturbation, quadratic in fermionic operators. We develop analytic perturbation theory in the amplitude of the SYK$_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-10 A. V. Lunkin , K. S. Tikhonov , M. V. Feigel'man

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is an all-to-all interacting Majorana fermion model for many-body quantum chaos and the holographic correspondence. Here we construct fermionic all-to-all Floquet quantum circuits of random four-body gates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-15 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

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

In this work a loop quantum corrected model is obtained for spherically symmetric space-times in the vacuum. This effective model is derived by the use of the path integral method, previously employed in several models of Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Hugo A. Morales