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The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions interacting with $q$-body random couplings. For $q=2$, it describes free particles, and is non-chaotic in the many-body sense, while for $q>2$ it is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

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

Entanglement entropy is a powerful tool in characterizing universal features in quantum many-body systems. In quantum chaotic Hermitian systems, typical eigenstates have near maximal entanglement with very small fluctuations. Here, we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-16 Giorgio Cipolloni , Jonah Kudler-Flam

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

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) is a concrete solvable model with non-Fermi liquid behavior and maximal chaos. In this work, we study the entanglement R\'enyi entropy for the subsystems of the SYK model in the Kourkoulou-Maldacena states. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-05 Pengfei Zhang

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

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

Many aspects of many-body localization (MBL) transitions remain elusive so far. Here, we propose a higher-dimensional generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and show that it exhibits a MBL transition. The model on a bipartite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-17 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Many key features of the higher-dimensional Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at {\it finite} $N$ remain unknown. Here we study the SYK chain consisting of $N$ ($N$$\ge$$2$) fermions per site with random interactions and hoppings between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-16 Xin Dai , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

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

In this Letter we consider the out-of-equilibrium phenomena in the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model supplemented with the attractive Hubbard interaction (SYK+U). This model provides the clear-cut transition from non-Fermi liquid phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-15 Artem Alexandrov , Alexander Gorsky

We study the effect of non-Gaussian average over the random couplings in a complex version of the celebrated Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Using a Polchinski-like equation and random tensor Gaussian universality, we show that the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 T. Krajewski , M. Laudonio , R. Pascalie , A. Tanasa

We study the non-stabilizerness or quantum magic of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($\rm SYK$) model, a prototype example of maximally chaotic quantum matter. We show that the Majorana spectrum of its ground state, encoding the spreading of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Surajit Bera , Marco Schirò

We review recent progress in the nonequilibrium dynamics of thermally isolated many-body quantum systems, evolving with an ensemble of Hamiltonians as opposed to deterministic evolution with a single time-dependent Hamiltonian. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-07 Armin Rahmani

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

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

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

It is intuitively expected, and supported by earlier studies, that many-body quantum chaos is suppressed, or even destroyed, by dissipative effects induced by continuous monitoring. We show here that this is not always the case. For this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Xianlong Liu , Jie-ping Zheng , Antonio M. García-García

We investigate the infinite temperature dynamics of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK$_4$) complimented with a single particle hopping term (SYK$_2$), leading to the chaos-to-integrable crossover of the many-body eigenstates. Due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera

A finite quantum system evolving unitarily equilibrates in a probabilistic fashion. In the general many-body setting the time-fluctuations of an observable \mathcal{A} are typically exponentially small in the system size. We consider here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi