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The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a system of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions and strongly chaotic dynamics, which at low energy admits a holographically dual description as two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Hence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Patrick Orman , Hrant Gharibyan , John Preskill

The sparse version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model reproduces essential features of the original SYK model while reducing the number of disorder parameters. In this paper, we propose a further simplification of the model which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Masaki Tezuka , Onur Oktay , Enrico Rinaldi , Masanori Hanada , Franco Nori

We investigate two sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) systems coupled by a bilinear term as a holographic quantum mechanical description of an eternal traversable wormhole in the low temperature limit. Each SYK system consists of $N$ Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Elena Caceres , Anderson Misobuchi , Rafael Pimentel

We study a sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $N$ Majoranas where only $\sim k N$ independent matrix elements are non-zero. We identify a minimum $k \gtrsim 1$ for quantum chaos to occur by a level statistics analysis. The spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We suggest that the holographic principle, combined with recent technological advances in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, can lead to experimental studies of quantum gravity. As a specific example, we consider the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-07 Ippei Danshita , Masanori Hanada , Masaki Tezuka

We analyze a model of qubits which we argue has an emergent quantum gravitational description similar to the fermionic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The model we consider is known as the quantum $q$-spin model because it features $q$-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Brian Swingle , Michael Winer

In recent years, the physics of many-body quantum chaotic systems close to their ground states has come under intensified scrutiny. Such studies are motivated by the emergence of model systems exhibiting chaotic fluctuations throughout the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Alexander Altland , Kun Woo Kim , Tobias Micklitz , Maedeh Rezaei , Julian Sonner , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a paradigm for extreme quantum chaos, non-Fermi-liquid behavior, and holographic matter. Yet, the dense random all-to-all interactions that characterize it are an extreme challenge for realistic…

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated quantum system that shows a strong signature of quantum chaos. Due to its chaotic nature, the simulation of real-time dynamics becomes quickly intractable by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Etienne Granet , Yuta Kikuchi , Henrik Dreyer , Enrico Rinaldi

We study a simplified version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with real interactions by exact diagonalization. Instead of satisfying a continuous Gaussian distribution, the interaction strengths are assumed to be chosen from discrete…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-07 Ye Cao , Yi-Neng Zhou , Ting-Ting Shi , Wei Zhang

Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a representative example of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Matthew Ding , Robbie King , Bobak T. Kiani , Eric R. Anschuetz

We propose a low energy model for simulating an analog black hole on an optical lattice using ultracold atoms. Assuming the validity of the holographic principle, we employ the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, which describes a system of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Iftekher S. Chowdhury , Binay Prakash Akhouri , Shah Haque , Martin H. Bacci , Eric Howard

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is renowned for its short-time chaotic behavior, which plays a fundamental role in its application to various fields such as quantum gravity and holography. The Thouless energy, representing the energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-17 Richard Berkovits

Utilizing singular value decomposition, our investigation focuses on the spectrum of the singular values within a sparse non-Hermitian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Unlike the complex eigenvalues typical of non-Hermitian systems, singular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

We investigate the spectral form factor of the sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We use numerical methods to establish that at intermediate times the connected part of the spectral form factor is the dominant one. These connected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-25 Elena Cáceres , Anderson Misobuchi , Amir Raz

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

A class of tensor models were recently outlined as potentially calculable examples of holography: their perturbative large-$N$ behavior is similar to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, but they are fully quantum mechanical (in the sense…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-04 Chethan Krishnan , Sambuddha Sanyal , P. N. Bala Subramanian

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has attracted widespread attention due to its relevance to diverse areas of physics, such as high temperature superconductivity, black holes, and quantum chaos. The model is, however, extremely challenging…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-12 Charles Creffield , Fernando Sols , Marco Schirò , Nathan Goldman
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