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We propose a simple solvable variant of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model which displays a quantum phase transition from a fast-scrambling non-Fermi liquid to disordered Fermi liquid. Like the canonical SYK model, our variant involves a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Oguzhan Can , Marcel Franz

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

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a concrete model for non-Fermi Liquid with maximally chaotic behavior in $0+1$-$d$. In order to gain some insights into real materials in higher dimensions where fermions could hop between different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Pengfei Zhang

We study the open quantum dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model described by the Lindblad master equation, where the SYK model is coupled to Markovian reservoirs with jump operators that are either linear or quadratic in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Kohei Kawabata , Anish Kulkarni , Jiachen Li , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu

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 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

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) explains how closed unitary quantum systems can exhibit thermal behavior in pure states. In this work we examine a recently proposed microscopic model of a black hole in AdS$_2$, the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

We analyze a simple and efficient experimental protocol to cool the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model to low temperatures. The protocol utilizes local couplings between two copies of an SYK model to create a gapped adiabatic path, between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Thomas Schuster , Bryce Kobrin , Vincent P. Su , Hugo Marrochio , Norman Y. Yao

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a disordered quantum mean-field model studied in condensed matter physics and the holographic theory of black holes. Its structural properties can be derived heuristically using a combination of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-05 David Gamarnik , Francisco Pernice , Alexander Schmidhuber , Alexander Zlokapa

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 present a functional-based approach to compute thermal expectation values for actions expressed in the $G-\Sigma$ formalism, applicable to any time sequence ordering. Utilizing this framework, we analyze the linear response to an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-08 Rishabh Jha , Stefan Kehrein , Jan C. Louw

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

Many key features of the higher-dimensional Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at {\it finite} $N$ remain unknown. Here we study the SYK chain consisting of $N$ ($N$$\ge$$2$) fermions per site with random interactions and hoppings between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-16 Xin Dai , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Many-body chaos has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding thermalization in strongly interacting quantum systems. While recent analytic advances have sharpened our intuition for many-body chaos in certain large $N$ theories, it…

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 propose a lattice model for strongly interacting electrons with the potential to explain the main phenomenology of the strange metal phase in the cuprate high temperature superconductors. Our model is motivated by the recently developed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-23 Xiaochuan Wu , Xiao Chen , Chao-Ming Jian , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu

The SYK model: fermions with a $q$-body, Gaussian-random, all-to-all interaction, is the first of a fascinating new class of solvable large $N$ models. We generalize SYK to include $f$ flavors of fermions, each occupying $N_a$ sites and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-16 David J. Gross , Vladimir Rosenhaus

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled SYK models, conjectured to be holographically dual to an eternal traversable wormhole in AdS$_2$. We consider different periodic drivings of the parameters of the system. We analyze the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-23 Martí Berenguer , Anshuman Dey , Javier Mas , Juan Santos-Suárez , Alfonso V. Ramallo

We study a quantum mechanical model proposed by Sachdev, Ye and Kitaev. The model consists of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions of a few fermions at a time. It it tractable in the large $N$ limit, where the classical variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Juan Maldacena , Douglas Stanford