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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 0+1-d Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) fermionic model attracts nowadays a wide spread interest of the Condensed Matter community, as a benchmark toy model for strong electron correlation and non Fermi Liquid behavior. It is exactly solvable in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 A. Tagliacozzo

Quantum chaos is one of the distinctive features of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ Majorana fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with infinite-range two-body interactions, which is attracting a lot of interest as a toy model for holography.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Antonio M. García-García , Bruno Loureiro , Aurelio Romero-Bermúdez , Masaki Tezuka

The Kitaev model, renowned for its exact solvability and potential to host non-Abelian anyons, remains a focal point in the study of quantum spin liquids and topological phases. While much of the existing literature has employed Majorana…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-12 Hibiki Takegami , Takao Morinari

We consider the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model where interaction involves $q$ fermions at a time. We find the next order correction to the thermal two-point function in the large $q$ expansion. Using this result we find the next order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Grigory Tarnopolsky

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions interacting with $q$-body random couplings. For $q=2$, it describes free particles, and is non-chaotic in the many-body sense, while for $q>2$ it is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

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 study the generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model to a $1+1$ dimensional chiral SYK model of $N$ flavors of right-moving chiral Majorana fermions with all-to-all random 4-fermion interactions. The interactions in this model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Biao Lian , S. L. Sondhi , Zhenbin Yang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a model of $q$ interacting fermions whose large N limit is dominated by melonic graphs. In this review we first present a diagrammatic proof of that result by direct, combinatorial analysis of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Matteo Laudonio , Romain Pascalie , Adrian Tanasa

Inspired by the recent interest in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model we study a class of multi-flavored one- and two-band fermion systems with no bare dispersion. In contrast to the previous work on the SYK model that would routinely assume…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-16 D. V. Khveshchenko

We show that a variant of the Gross-Neveu Yukawa model with disorder provides a real, nonsupersymmetric generalization of the Sachdev-Ye Kitaev (SYK) model to three dimensions. The model contains $M$ real scalar fields and $N$ Dirac (or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-13 Shiroman Prakash

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

We study the SYK model with complex fermions, in the presence of an all-to-all $q$-body interaction, with a non-vanishing chemical potential. We find that, in the large $q$ limit, this model can be solved exactly and the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ritabrata Bhattacharya , Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Kundu

A brief survey of some random quantum models with infinite-range couplings is presented, ranging from the quantum Ising model to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model was the first to realize an extensive zero temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Subir Sachdev

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

We construct a series of one-dimensional non-unitary dynamics consisting of both unitary and imaginary evolutions based on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Starting from a short-range entangled state, we analyze the entanglement dynamics using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-24 Chunxiao Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Xiao Chen

We investigate the supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ Majorana fermions with infinite range interactions in $0+1$ dimensions. We have found that, close to the ground state $E \approx 0$, discrete symmetries alter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

The Kitaev model, defined on a honeycomb lattice, features an exactly solvable ground state with fractionalized Majorana fermion excitations, which can potentially form non-Abelian anyons crucial for fault-tolerant topological quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-18 Hibiki Takegami , Takao Morinari

We consider a recent proposal for a physical realization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the zeroth-Landau-level sector of an irregularly-shaped graphene flake. We study in detail charge transport signatures of the unique non-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-21 Oguzhan Can , Emilian M. Nica , Marcel Franz