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The traversable wormhole protocol in coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) systems produces a transmission signal C(t) widely interpreted as evidence of holographic dynamics. Recent work has questioned this interpretation, showing that similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sagar Dubey

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a model of $q$ interacting fermions whose large N limit is dominated by melonic graphs. In this review we first present a diagrammatic proof of that result by direct, combinatorial analysis of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Matteo Laudonio , Romain Pascalie , 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

We establish the integrability of a family of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with uniform $p$-body interactions. We derive the R-matrix and mutually commuting transfer matrices that generate the Hamiltonians of these models, and obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Kohei Fukai , Hosho Katsura

We show analytically that the spectral density of the $q$-body Sachdeev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model agrees with that of Q-Hermite polynomials with Q a non-trivial function of $q \ge 2$ and the number of Majorana fermions $N \gg 1$. Numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Antonio M. García-García , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a concrete model for non-Fermi Liquid with maximally chaotic behavior in $0+1$-$d$. In order to gain some insights into real materials in higher dimensions where fermions could hop between different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Pengfei Zhang

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 sparse version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model reproduces essential features of the original SYK model while reducing the number of disorder parameters. In this paper, we propose a further simplification of the model which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Masaki Tezuka , Onur Oktay , Enrico Rinaldi , Masanori Hanada , Franco Nori

Understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems remains one of the grand challenges of modern physics. In particular, increasing attention has been devoted to the emergence of non-equilibrium universality classes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Wenbo Zhou , Yuke Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

We study a series of perturbations on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We show that the chaotic non-Fermi liquid phase described by the ordinary $q = 4$ SYK model has marginally relevant/irrelevant (depending on the sign of the coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-05 Zhen Bi , Chao-Ming Jian , Yi-Zhuang You , Kelly Ann Pawlak , Cenke Xu

We describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models of fermions with all-to-all interactions. These provide tractable models of the dynamics of quantum systems without quasiparticle excitations. The Kadanoff-Baym…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Andreas Eberlein , Valentin Kasper , Subir Sachdev , Julia Steinberg

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a system of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions and strongly chaotic dynamics, which at low energy admits a holographically dual description as two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Hence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Patrick Orman , Hrant Gharibyan , John Preskill

We study chaos in a classical limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model obtained in a suitably defined large-S limit. The low-temperature Lyapunov exponent is found to depend linearly on temperature, with a slope that is parametrically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Thomas Scaffidi , Ehud Altman

In this series of works, we study exactly solvable non-unitary time evolutions in one-dimensional quantum critical systems ranging from quantum quenches to time-dependent drivings. In this part I, we are motivated by the recent works of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-30 Xueda Wen

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

We propose the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Lindbladian as a paradigmatic solvable model of dissipative many-body quantum chaos. It describes $N$ strongly coupled Majorana fermions with random all-to-all interactions, with unitary evolution given by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas Sá , Pedro Ribeiro , Tomaž Prosen

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ fermions with a $q$-body interaction of infinite range, coupled to a Markovian environment. Close to the infinite-temperature steady state, the real-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie Ping Zheng

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a rare example of a strongly-interacting system that is analytically tractable. Tractability arises because the model is largely structureless by design and therefore artificial: while the interaction is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera , Ferdinand Evers