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We investigate the infinite temperature dynamics of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK$_4$) complimented with a single particle hopping term (SYK$_2$), leading to the chaos-to-integrable crossover of the many-body eigenstates. Due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera

We analyze the quantum chaotic behavior of the Yukawa-SYK model as a function of filling and temperature, which describes random Yukawa interactions between $N$ complex fermions and $M$ bosons in zero spatial dimensions, for both the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-25 Andrew Davis , Yuxuan Wang

We study the preparation of thermal states of the dense and sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model using a variational quantum algorithm for $6 \le N \le 12$ Majorana fermions over a wide range of temperatures. Utilizing IBM's 127-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jack Y. Araz , Raghav G. Jha , Felix Ringer , Bharath Sambasivam

It is intuitively expected, and supported by earlier studies, that many-body quantum chaos is suppressed, or even destroyed, by dissipative effects induced by continuous monitoring. We show here that this is not always the case. For this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Xianlong Liu , Jie-ping Zheng , Antonio M. García-García

Spectral correlations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. For Hermitian Hamiltonians, quantum chaotic motion is related to random matrix theory spectral correlations. Based on recent progress in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-23 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Quantum chaos in many-body systems may be characterized by the Lyapunov exponent defined as the exponential growth rate of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC). So far Lyaponov exponents around various quantum critical points (QCP) remain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-01 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Many aspects of many-body localization (MBL) transitions remain elusive so far. Here, we propose a higher-dimensional generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and show that it exhibits a MBL transition. The model on a bipartite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-17 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

A distinct feature of Hermitian quantum chaotic dynamics is the exponential increase of certain out-of-time-order-correlation (OTOC) functions around the Ehrenfest time with a rate given by a Lyapunov exponent. Physically, the OTOCs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-17 Antonio M. García-García , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

Krylov complexity has recently been proposed as a quantum probe of chaos. The Krylov exponent characterising the exponential growth of Krylov complexity is conjectured to upper-bound the Lyapunov exponent. We compute the Krylov and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-13 Shira Chapman , Saskia Demulder , Damián A. Galante , Sameer U. Sheorey , Osher Shoval

We propose a characterization of quantum many-body chaos: given a collection of simple operators, the set of all possible pair-correlations between these operators can be organized into a matrix with random-matrix-like spectrum. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Hrant Gharibyan , Masanori Hanada , Brian Swingle , Masaki Tezuka

We study the level statistics of a generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with two-body and one-body random interactions of finite range by exact diagonalization. Tuning the range of the one-body term, while keeping the two-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Antonio M. García-García , Masaki Tezuka

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed and widely used recently as a tool to define and describe many-body quantum chaos. Here, we develop the Keldysh non-linear sigma model technique to calculate these correlators…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-16 Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

Anomalous thermalization, particularly the crossings of temperature trajectories from different initial states termed Mpemba crossings (MPCs), have intrigued scientists for decades. While recent studies in quantum systems suggest that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Xuanhua Wang , Jie Su , Jin Wang

The question of thermalization of a closed quantum system is of central interest in non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics. Here we present one such study analyzing the dynamics of a closed coupled Majorana SYK system. We have a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Santiago Salazar Jaramillo , Rishabh Jha , Stefan Kehrein

In interacting quantum many-body systems, relaxation toward equilibrium reflects a competition between internal chaotic dynamics and environmental dissipation. While conventional Markovian baths typically produce exponential decay,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Gabriel Almeida , Pedro Ribeiro , Masudul Haque , Lucas Sá

We study a description of the large N limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in terms of quantum mechanics without quenched disorder. Instead of random couplings, we introduce massive scalar fields coupled to fermions, and study a small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Takahiro Nishinaka , Seiji Terashima

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

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

We study quantum many-body systems with a global U(1) conservation law, focusing on a theory of $N$ interacting fermions with charge conservation, or $N$ interacting spins with one conserved component of total spin. We define an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Xiao Chen , Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas

Out-of-Time-Ordered Commutators (OTOCs), representing a key diagnostic for scrambling as a facet of short-time quantum chaos, have attracted wide-ranging interest, from many-body physics to quantum gravity. By means of a suitable form of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fabian Haneder , Gerrit Caspari , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter