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Quantum chaos is one of the distinctive features of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ Majorana fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with infinite-range two-body interactions, which is attracting a lot of interest as a toy model for holography.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Antonio M. García-García , Bruno Loureiro , Aurelio Romero-Bermúdez , Masaki Tezuka

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

The shear viscosity is an important characterization of how a many-body system behaves like a fluid. We study the shear viscosity in a strongly interacting solvable model, consisting of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) islands. As…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Xian-Hui Ge , Shao-Kai Jian , Yi-Li Wang , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Hong Yao

A colloquium style review of the connections between the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and strange metals without quasiparticles, and between the SYK model and the quantum properties of black holes. Along with other insights, this connection has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Subir Sachdev

The tractability of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at large $N$ limit makes it ideal to theoretically study its chaotic non-Fermi liquid behavior and holographic duality properties. We show that the complex SYK Hamiltonian emerges from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-03 Chenan Wei , Tigran A. Sedrakyan

These notes are a short introduction to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We discuss: SYK and tensor models as a new class of large N quantum field theories, the near-conformal invariance in the infrared, the computation of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Vladimir Rosenhaus

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

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 is a cornerstone in the study of quantum chaos and holographic quantum matter. Real-world implementations, however, deviate from the idealized all-to-all connectivity, raising questions about the robustness…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-20 Andrea Legramandi , Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Hauke

The two-dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (2d-YSYK) model provides a universal theory of quantum phase transitions in metals in the presence of quenched random spatial fluctuations in the local position of the quantum critical point. It…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-18 Chenyuan Li , Davide Valentinis , Aavishkar A. Patel , Haoyu Guo , Jörg Schmalian , Subir Sachdev , Ilya Esterlis

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

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

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 construct a sign-problem free variant of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model which keeps all the essential properties of the SYK model, including the analytic solvability in the large-$N$ limit and being maximally chaotic. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-26 Byungmin Kang , Junggi Yoon

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has emerged as a new paradigm of the non-Fermi-liquid behavior. Here we investigate a possibility of having a superconducting off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) and a pseudogap phase within the SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Hanteng Wang , A. L. Chudnovskiy , Alexander Gorsky , Alex Kamenev

The nonlinear supermatrix $\sigma $-model is widely used to understand the physics of Anderson localization and the level statistics in noninteracting disordered electron systems. In contrast to the general belief that the supersymmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-03 Tigran A. Sedrakyan , Konstantin B. Efetov

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 describes interacting fermionic zero modes in zero spatial dimensions, e.g. quantum dot, with interactions strong enough to completely washout quasiparticle excitations in the infrared. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-21 Y. Cheipesh , A. I. Pavlov , V. Ohanesjan , K. Schalm , N. V. Gnezdilov

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

Understanding the emergence of complex correlations in strongly interacting systems remains a fundamental challenge in quantum many-body physics. One fruitful approach is to develop solvable toy models that encapsulate universal properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ning Sun , Peng Zhang , Pengfei Zhang