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We study a class of multi-orbital models based on those proposed by Venderbos, Hu, and Kane which exhibit an interplay of topology, interactions, and fermion incoherence. In the non-interacting limit, these models exhibit trivial and Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Andrew Hardy , Anjishnu Bose , Arun Paramekanti

We study the spread of R\'enyi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-29 Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas , Xiao-Liang Qi

We study the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) numerically and investigate thermodynamic behavior of cSYK model across varying chemical potentials. We discover that the cSYK model remarkably mirrors the first-order phase transition seen in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Yi-Cheng Rui

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is a $(0+1)$-dimensional model describing Majorana fermions or complex fermions with random interactions. This model has various interesting properties such as approximate local criticality (power law correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Yingfei Gu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Douglas Stanford

We study the non-stabilizerness or quantum magic of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($\rm SYK$) model, a prototype example of maximally chaotic quantum matter. We show that the Majorana spectrum of its ground state, encoding the spreading of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Surajit Bera , Marco Schirò

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) is a concrete solvable model with non-Fermi liquid behavior and maximal chaos. In this work, we study the entanglement R\'enyi entropy for the subsystems of the SYK model in the Kourkoulou-Maldacena states. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-05 Pengfei Zhang

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

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

We show that the low temperature phase of a conjugate pair of uncoupled, quantum chaotic, nonhermitian systems such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model or the Ginibre ensemble of random matrices are dominated by replica symmetry breaking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-22 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Electronic transport in nano-structures, such as long molecules or 2D exfoliated flakes, often goes through a nearly degenerate set of single-particle orbitals. Here we show that in such cases a conspiracy of the narrow band and strong e-e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-06 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Kamenev

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has emerged as a new paradigm of the non-Fermi-liquid behavior. Here we investigate a possibility of having a superconducting off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) and a pseudogap phase within the SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Hanteng Wang , A. L. Chudnovskiy , Alexander Gorsky , Alex Kamenev

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a resonant level model coupled to a strongly interacting electron bath modeled by a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Different from the well-investigated case of a structureless non-interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-27 Anastasia Enckell , Stefan Kehrein

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model attracts attention in the context of information scrambling, which represents delocalization of quantum information and is quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC). The SYK model contains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-20 Eiki Iyoda , Hosho Katsura , Takahiro Sagawa

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strange metal that shows peculiar non-Fermi liquid properties without quasiparticles. It exhibits a maximally chaotic behavior characterized by out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs), and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-25 Naoto Tsuji , Philipp Werner

We consider the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model as an effective theory arising at the zero-dimensional boundary of a many-body localized, Fermionic symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase in one spatial dimension. The Fermions at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Yi-Zhuang You , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Cenke Xu

In arXiv:1707.02197, the authors considered the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with quadratic perturbation (also known as mass-deformed SYK), and claimed that the quantum Lyapunov exponent would vanish in the regime of low temperature and small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jaewon Kim , Xiangyu Cao

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

Periodically driven quantum matter can realize exotic dynamical phases. In order to understand how ubiquitous and robust these phases are, it is pertinent to investigate the heating dynamics of generic interacting quantum systems. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-31 Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

We study chaos in a classical limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model obtained in a suitably defined large-S limit. The low-temperature Lyapunov exponent is found to depend linearly on temperature, with a slope that is parametrically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Thomas Scaffidi , Ehud Altman

Understanding how quantum chaotic systems generate entanglement can provide insight into their microscopic chaotic dynamics and can help distinguish between different classes of chaotic behavior. Using von Neumann entanglement entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka