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We present calculations of the temperature-dependent electrostatic and chemical potential distributions in disordered normal metal-superconductor structures. We show that they differ appreciably in the presence of a superconducting terminal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study the low frequency spectra of complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models at general densities. The analysis applies also to SU($M$) magnets with random exchange at large $M$. The spectral densities are computed by numerical analysis of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Maria Tikhanovskaya , Haoyu Guo , Subir Sachdev , Grigory Tarnopolsky

We analyze the quantum chaotic behavior of the Yukawa-SYK model as a function of filling and temperature, which describes random Yukawa interactions between $N$ complex fermions and $M$ bosons in zero spatial dimensions, for both the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-25 Andrew Davis , Yuxuan Wang

Fermi liquid theory forms the basis for our understanding of the majority of metals, which is manifested in the description of transport properties that the electrical resistivity goes as temperature squared in the limit of zero…

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

Motivated by recent works on atom-cavity realizations of fast scramblers, and on Cooper pairing in non-Fermi liquids, we study a family of solvable variants of the ($q=4$) Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model in which the rank and eigenvalue…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-25 Jaewon Kim , Xiangyu Cao , Ehud Altman

Numerous unconventional superconductors such as cuprates, heavy-fermions, and twisted-bilayer graphene exhibit incoherent metallic transport above the superconducting critical temperature. This phenomenon cannot be described with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Aaron Kleger , Nikolay Gnezdilov , Rufus Boyack

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 investigate a bosonic variant of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model coupled to a Lindbladian environment, focusing on the interplay between quantum many-body dynamics and dissipation. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral formalism in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Yifei Liu , Anish Kulkarni , Shinsei Ryu

We show that a single-fermion quantum dot acquires odd-frequency Gor'kov anomalous averages in proximity to strongly correlated Majorana zero modes, described by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Despite the presence of finite anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov

Non-Fermi liquids (NFL) are a class of strongly interacting gapless fermionic systems without long-lived quasiparticle excitations. An important group of NFL model features itinerant fermions coupled to soft bosonic fluctuations near a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-23 Gaopei Pan , Wei Wang , Andrew Davis , Yuxuan Wang , Zi Yang Meng

We study the effective low-energy fermionic theory of the Kondo-Kitaev model to leading order in the Kondo coupling. Our main goal is to understand the nature of the superconducting instability induced in the proximate metal due to its…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-07 Sondre Duna Lundemo , Asle Sudbø

Recently, the steady states of non-unitary free fermion dynamics are found to exhibit novel critical phases with power-law squared correlations and a logarithmic subsystem entanglement. In this work, we theoretically understand the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-17 Pengfei Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen

We develop high temperature series expansions for the thermodynamic properties of the honeycomb-lattice Kitaev-Heisenberg model. Numerical results for uniform susceptibility, heat capacity and entropy as a function of temperature for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Rajiv R. P. Singh , Jaan Oitmaa

We study a putative (strange) metal-to-insulator transition in a granular array of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) quantum dots, each occupied by a large number N>>1 of charge-carrying fermions. Extending the previous studies we complement the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-03 D. V. Khveshchenko

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

This review is a contribution to a book dedicated to the memory of Michael E. Fisher. The first example of a quantum many body system not expected to have any quasiparticle excitations was the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Subir Sachdev

Thermalisation is a probabilistic process. As such, it is generally expected that when we increase the temperature of a system its classical behaviour dominates its quantum coherences. By employing the Gibbs state of a translationally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-29 Chris N. Self , Johannes Knolle , Sofyan Iblisdir , Jiannis K. Pachos

We study the stability of the SYK$_4$ model with a large but finite number of fermions $N$ with respect to a perturbation, quadratic in fermionic operators. We develop analytic perturbation theory in the amplitude of the SYK$_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-10 A. V. Lunkin , K. S. Tikhonov , M. V. Feigel'man

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