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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 show that a non-Hermitian two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model can provide thermodynamic structure equivalent to Hermitian two coupled SYK model. The energy spectrum, the entanglement degree of the ground states and the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-21 Wenhe Cai , Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Masataka Matsumoto , Sang-Jin Sin

Abstract We study a two-band dispersive Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in 1 + 1 dimension. We suggest a model that describes a semimetal with quadratic dispersion at half-filling. We compute the Green's function at the saddle point using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-05 Geo Jose , Kangjun Seo , Bruno Uchoa

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

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model may provide us with a good starting point for the experimental study of quantum chaos and holography in the laboratory. Still, the four-local interaction of fermions makes quantum simulation challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Masanori Hanada , Sam van Leuven , Onur Oktay , Masaki Tezuka

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a model of $q$ interacting fermions. Gross and Rosenhaus have proposed a generalization of the SYK model which involves fermions with different flavors. In terms of Feynman graphs, those flavors are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-22 Valentin Bonzom , Luca Lionni , Adrian Tanasa

We study the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) numerically and investigate thermodynamic behavior of cSYK model across varying chemical potentials. We discover that the cSYK model remarkably mirrors the first-order phase transition seen in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Yi-Cheng Rui

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

The search for a quantum theory of gravity has led to the discovery of quantum many-body systems that are dual to gravitational models with quantum properties. The perhaps most famous of these systems is the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model.…

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 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

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 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

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

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 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

Random spin systems at low temperatures are glassy and feature computational hardness in finding low-energy states. We study the random all-to-all interacting fermionic Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model and prove that, in contrast, (I) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Eric R. Anschuetz , Chi-Fang Chen , Bobak T. Kiani , Robbie King

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

Entanglement is one of the most important concepts in quantum physics. We review recent progress in understanding the quantum entanglement in many-body systems using large-$N$ solvable models: the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Pengfei Zhang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model attracts attention in the context of information scrambling, which represents delocalization of quantum information and is quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC). The SYK model contains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-20 Eiki Iyoda , Hosho Katsura , Takahiro Sagawa