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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 short time (large energy) behavior of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is one of the main motivation to the growing interest garnered by this model. True chaotic behaviour sets in at the Thouless time, which can be extracted from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-08 Richard Berkovits

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is an $N$-modes fermionic model with infinite range random interactions. In this work, we study the thermal R\'enyi entropy for a subsystem of the SYK model using the path-integral formalism in the large-$N$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengfei Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen

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 discuss a supersymmetric generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. These are quantum mechanical models involving $N$ Majorana fermions. The supercharge is given by a polynomial expression in terms of the Majorana fermions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Wenbo Fu , Davide Gaiotto , Juan Maldacena , Subir Sachdev

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 investigate the thermalization of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models coupled via random interactions following quenches from the perspective of entanglement. Previous studies have shown that when a system of two SYK models coupled by random…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-25 Ramanjit Sohal , Laimei Nie , Xiao-Qi Sun , Eduardo Fradkin

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

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

It has been known that the large-$q$ complex SYK model falls under the same universality class as that of van der Waals (mean-field) and saturates the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford bound, both features shared by various black holes. This makes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Jan C. Louw , Linda M. van Manen , Rishabh Jha

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis is a compelling conjecture which strives to explain the apparent thermal behavior of generic observables in closed quantum systems. Although we are far from a complete analytic understanding, quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-27 Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Junyu Liu , Yehao Zhou

We study spectral and thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, a variant of the $k$-body embedded random ensembles studied for several decades in the context of nuclear physics and quantum chaos. We show analytically that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Antonio M. García-García , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We study the spread of R\'enyi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-29 Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas , Xiao-Liang Qi

In this work, we investigate whether the Kitaev honeycomb model can serve as a starting point to realize the intriguing physics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The starting point is to strain the system, which leads to flat bands…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Mikael Fremling , Lars Fritz

Given a class of $q$-local Hamiltonians, is it possible to find a simple variational state whose energy is a finite fraction of the ground state energy in the thermodynamic limit? Whereas product states often provide an affirmative answer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-15 Arijit Haldar , Omid Tavakol , Thomas Scaffidi

We give qualitative arguments for the mesoscopic nature of the Sachdev-Yee-Kitaev (SYK) model in the holographic regime with $q^2/N\ll 1$ with $N$ Majorana particles coupled by antisymmetric and random interactions of range $q$. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Yizhuang Liu , Maciej A. Nowak , Ismail Zahed

We study the electric and thermoelectric transport through a spinful complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) quantum dot coupled to metallic leads, forming a N-SYK-N junction, by the Keldysh field theory approach. Unlike traditional equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-11 Marco Uguccioni , Daniele Morotti , Luca Dell'Anna

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, a theory of N Majorana fermions with q-body interactions, becomes in the large q limit a conformally-broken Liouville field theory. Taking this limit preserves many interesting properties of the model, yet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Alexandre Streicher

Periodically driven quantum matter can realize exotic dynamical phases. In order to understand how ubiquitous and robust these phases are, it is pertinent to investigate the heating dynamics of generic interacting quantum systems. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-31 Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

We study the chaos exponent of some variants of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, namely, the $\Ns=1$ supersymmetry (SUSY)-SYK model and its sibling, the $(N|M)$-SYK model which is not supersymmetric in general, for arbitrary interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-22 Chen Ma , Chushun Tian