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We study a version of the 2-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK$_{2}$) model whose complex fermions exhibit twisted boundary conditions on the thermal circle. As we show, this is physically equivalent to coupling the fermions to a 1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Jeff Murugan , Ruach Pillay Slayen , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We study the original Sachdev-Ye (SY) model in its Majorana fermion representation which can be called the two indices Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Its advantage over the original SY model in the $ SU(M) $ complex fermion representation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Jinwu Ye

In this paper we explain the relation between the free energy of the SYK model for $N$ Majorana fermions with a random $q$-body interaction and the moments of its spectral density. The high temperature expansion of the free energy gives the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-21 Yiyang Jia , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes Majorana fermions with random interaction, which displays many interesting properties such as non-Fermi liquid behavior, quantum chaos, emergent conformal symmetry and holographic duality. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Yiming Chen , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang

Building upon techniques employed in the construction of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which is a solvable $0+1$ dimensional model of a non-Fermi liquid, we develop a solvable, infinite-ranged random-hopping model of fermions coupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-20 Aavishkar A. Patel , Subir Sachdev

We investigate a model closely related to both the original Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric SYK model. It consists of $N$ real Majorana fermions and $M$ auxiliary bosons with Yukawa interactions. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Eric Marcus , Stefan Vandoren

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

We present an exact solution in the large-$N$ limit of the L\'{e}vy Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (LSYK) model introduced in Ref. [1], wherein the couplings are drawn from a L\'{e}vy Stable distribution parameterized by a tail exponent $\mu \in [0,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Budhaditya Bhattacharjee , William. E. Salazar , Alexei Andreanov , Dario Rosa

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

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

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 argue that in certain class of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev(SYK) models the low energy physics at large N is governed by a non-local action rather than the Schwartzian action. We present a partial analytic and extensive numerical evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-15 Alexey Milekhin

We show that a single-fermion quantum dot acquires odd-frequency Gor'kov anomalous averages in proximity to strongly correlated Majorana zero modes, described by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Despite the presence of finite anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov

In this letter we construct a large-N exactly solvable model to study the interplay between interaction and topology, by connecting Sacheve-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with constant hopping. The hopping forms a band structure that can exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-30 Pengfei Zhang , Hui Zhai

We present a detailed quantitative analysis of spectral correlations in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We find that the deviations from universal Random Matrix Theory (RMT) behavior are due to a small number of long-wavelength…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yiyang Jia , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We present a complete symmetry classification of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $\mathcal{N}=0$, $1$ and $2$ supersymmetry (SUSY) on the basis of the Altland-Zirnbauer scheme in random matrix theory (RMT). For $\mathcal{N}=0$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-15 Takuya Kanazawa , Tilo Wettig

Recently, studies have explored the statistics of matrix elements of local operators in the Lieb-Liniger model. It was found that the probability distribution function for off-diagonal matrix elements $\langle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tingfei Li , Shuanghong Li

The tractability of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at large $N$ limit makes it ideal to theoretically study its chaotic non-Fermi liquid behavior and holographic duality properties. We show that the complex SYK Hamiltonian emerges from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-03 Chenan Wei , Tigran A. Sedrakyan

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

Equilibrium quantum many-body systems in the vicinity of phase transitions generically manifest universality. In contrast, limited knowledge has been gained on possible universal characteristics in the non-equilibrium evolution of systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-24 Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Uhrich , Alessio Paviglianiti , Philipp Hauke