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We study the generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model to a $1+1$ dimensional chiral SYK model of $N$ flavors of right-moving chiral Majorana fermions with all-to-all random 4-fermion interactions. The interactions in this model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Biao Lian , S. L. Sondhi , Zhenbin Yang

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

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 describes a collection of randomly interacting Majorana fermions that exhibits profound connections to quantum chaos and black holes. We propose a solid-state implementation based on a quantum dot coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-04 Aaron Chew , Andrew Essin , Jason Alicea

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

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 implement the Wormhole-Inspired Teleportation Protocol (WITP) in a pair of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models prepared in a thermofield-double state, forming a quantum analog of a traversable wormhole. By varying parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

We study the real time formation of the ground state of two coupled SYK models. This is a highly entangled state which is close to the thermofield double state and can be viewed as a wormhole. We start from a high temperature state, we let…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-01 Juan Maldacena , Alexey Milekhin

We present a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical studies of non-Fermi liquids in condensed matter physics. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Debanjan Chowdhury , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Subir Sachdev

A feature the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model shares with extremal black holes is an exponentially large number of ground states that preserve supersymmetry. In fact, the dimension of the ground state subsector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Jan Boruch , Henry W. Lin , Cynthia Yan

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

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

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

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

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a concrete solvable model to study non-Fermi liquid properties, holographic duality and maximally chaotic behavior. In this work, we consider a generalization of the SYK model that contains two SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Xin Chen , Ruihua Fan , Yiming Chen , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang

We propose an extension of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model that exhibits a quantum phase transition from the previously identified non-Fermi liquid fixed point to a Fermi liquid like state, while still allowing an exact solution in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-21 Sumilan Banerjee , Ehud Altman

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 incorporates rich physics, ranging from exotic non-Fermi liquid states without quasiparticle excitations, to holographic duality and quantum chaos. However, its experimental realization remains a daunting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Zhihuang Luo , Yi-Zhuang You , Jun Li , Chao-Ming Jian , Dawei Lu , Cenke Xu , Bei Zeng , Raymond Laflamme

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