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The SYK model consists of $N\gg 1$ fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with a random, all-to-all quartic interaction. Recently, Kitaev has found that the SYK model is maximally chaotic and has proposed it as a model of holography. We solve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Joseph Polchinski , Vladimir Rosenhaus

We analyze thermal correlators in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model away from the maximally chaotic limit. Despite the absence of a weakly curved black hole dual, the two point function decomposes into a sum over a discrete set of quasinormal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Matthew Dodelson

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 study the dynamics of chaos across the phase transition in a 2-coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, with a focus on the unstable "hot wormhole" phase. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we employ two non-equilibrium protocols that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-30 Martí Berenguer , Javier Mas , Juan Santos-Suárez , Alfonso V. Ramallo

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated metal with all-to-all random interactions (average strength $J$) between $N$ fermions (complex Dirac fermions or real Majorana fermions). In the large-$N$ limit a conformal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 N. V. Gnezdilov , J. A. Hutasoit , C. W. J. Beenakker

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

Strongly correlated metals comprise an enduring puzzle at the heart of condensed matter physics. Commonly a highly renormalized heavy Fermi liquid occurs below a small coherence scale, while at higher temperatures a broad incoherent regime…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Xue-Yang Song , Chao-Ming Jian , Leon Balents

It has been recently proposed by Maldacena and Qi that an eternal traversable wormhole in a two dimensional Anti de Sitter space (${\rm AdS}_2$) is the gravity dual of the low temperature limit of two Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Antonio M. García-García , Tomoki Nosaka , Dario Rosa , 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 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

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

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev is a quantum mechanical model of $N$ Majorana fermions which displays a number of appealing features -- solvability in the strong coupling regime, near-conformal invariance and maximal chaos -- which make it a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Stéphane Dartois , Harold Erbin , Swapnamay Mondal

We investigate the charged $q/2$-body interacting Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the grand-canonical ensemble. By treating $q$ as a large parameter, we are able to analytically study its phase diagram. By varying the chemical potential or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-14 Jan Louw , Stefan Kehrein

We study a generalization of `Yukawa models' in which Majorana fermions, interacting via all-to-all random couplings as in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, are parametrically coupled to disordered bosonic degrees of freedom described by a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-20 Surajit Bera , Jorge Kurchan , Marco Schiro

We study a large $N$ tensor model with $O(N)^3$ symmetry containing two flavors of Majorana fermions, $\psi_1^{abc}$ and $\psi_2^{abc}$. We also study its random counterpart consisting of two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, each one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Jaewon Kim , Igor R. Klebanov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Wenli Zhao

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is zero-dimensional model simulating quantum chaos using interacting Majorana fermions.Previously proposals have been made to realize the SYK model in fermionic systems that can support majorana zero modes.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-13 Han-yuan Zuo , Zheng-xin Liu

Any quantum state is fully specified by the expectation values of a complete set of Hermitian operators. For a system of Majorana fermions, such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, this set of observables can be taken to be all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Valérie Bettaque , Brian Swingle

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model provides an uncommon example of a chaotic theory that can be analysed analytically. In the deep infrared limit, the original model has an emergent conformal (reparametrisation) symmetry that is broken both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

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