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We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models in the $q\rightarrow\infty$ limit, where $q/2$ denotes the order of the random Dirac fermion interaction. We extend previous results by Eberlein et al.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-17 Jan C. Louw , Stefan Kehrein

We consider granular quantum matter defined by Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) dots coupled via random one-body hopping. Within the framework of Schwarzian field theory, we identify a zero temperature quantum phase transition between an insulating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Kamenev

We propose a low energy model for simulating an analog black hole on an optical lattice using ultracold atoms. Assuming the validity of the holographic principle, we employ the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which describes a system of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Martin H. Bacci , Eric Howard

In recent years, the physics of many-body quantum chaotic systems close to their ground states has come under intensified scrutiny. Such studies are motivated by the emergence of model systems exhibiting chaotic fluctuations throughout the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Alexander Altland , Kun Woo Kim , Tobias Micklitz , Maedeh Rezaei , Julian Sonner , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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

We study a class of many body chaotic models related to the Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. An emergent symmetry maps the quantum dynamics into a classical stochastic process. Thus we are able to study many dynamical properties at finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 Shunyu Yao

Using one-dimensional spin-1/2 systems as prototypes of quantum many-body systems, we study the emergence of quantum chaos. The main purpose of this work is to answer the following question: how does the spin-orbit interaction, as a pure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 J. Vahedi , A. Ashouri , S. Mahdavifar

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

The chiral SYK model is an 1+1 dimensional generalisation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with chiral Majorana fermions and homogeneous random interactions. In the large N limit, the model admits an exact solution of the two-point function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Avik Chakraborty , Manavendra Mahato

We discuss higher dimensional generalizations of the 0+1-dimensional Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model that has recently become the focus of intensive interdisciplinary studies by, both, the condensed matter and field-theoretical communities.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 D. V. Khveshchenko

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 investigate how a thermodynamical first-order phase transition affects the dynamical chaotic behaviour of a given model. To this effect, we analyze the model of Berkooz, Brukner, Jia and Mamroud that interpolates between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez , Rathindra Nath Das , Johanna Erdmenger , Zhuo-Yu Xian

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, in its simplest form, describes $k$ Majorana fermions with random all-to-all four-body interactions. We consider the SYK model in the framework of a many-body Altland-Zirnbauer classification that sees the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-21 Jan Behrends , Jens H. Bardarson , Benjamin Béri

We study a dual flavor fermion model where each of the flavors form a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) system with arbitrary and possibly distinct $q$-body interactions. The crucial new element is an arbitrary all-to-all $r$-body interaction between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Arijit Haldar , Vijay B. Shenoy

Many-body systems which saturate the quantum bound on chaos are attracting interest across a wide range of fields. Notable examples include the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its variations, all characterised by some form or randomness and all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-19 Ancel Larzul , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Antoine Georges , Marco Schirò

Through a mixture of analytic and numerical techniques, we explore the optimal approximation by a free Majorana state to individual disorder realizations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, along with a generalization of it. We elucidate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-02 Daniel Ish , Mark Srednicki

In the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with generic order $q \ge 4$ random couplings, we compute the critical temperature relating the Majorana fermions high temperature perturbative vacuum to the vacuum where the replica diagonal collective field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-26 Sergio Caracciolo , Matteo A. Cardella , Mauro Pastore

Recent studies have revealed intriguing similarities between the contribution of wormholes to the gravitational path integral and the phenomenon of replica symmetry breaking observed in spin glasses and other disordered systems.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Motivated by the near-horizon geometry of four-dimensional extremal black holes, we study a disordered quantum mechanical system invariant under a global $SU(2)$ symmetry. As in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, this system exhibits an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Dionysios Anninos , Tarek Anous , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo