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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

A recent study of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in the SYK chain of Majorana fermions suggested that the model does not rapidly thermalize, despite being maximally chaotic. In this work, I examine the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Seyyed M. H. Halataei

In an isolated quantum many-body system undergoing unitary evolution, the entropy of a subsystem (smaller than half the system size) thermalizes if at long times, it is to leading order equal to the thermodynamic entropy of the subsystem at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yichen Huang , Aram W. Harrow

We study the spread of R\'enyi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-29 Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas , Xiao-Liang Qi

The question of thermalization of a closed quantum system is of central interest in non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics. Here we present one such study analyzing the dynamics of a closed coupled Majorana SYK system. We have a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Santiago Salazar Jaramillo , Rishabh Jha , Stefan Kehrein

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 eigenstate thermalization hypothesis is a compelling conjecture which strives to explain the apparent thermal behavior of generic observables in closed quantum systems. Although we are far from a complete analytic understanding, quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-27 Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Junyu Liu , Yehao Zhou

We study the level statistics of a generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with two-body and one-body random interactions of finite range by exact diagonalization. Tuning the range of the one-body term, while keeping the two-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Antonio M. García-García , Masaki Tezuka

We study thermalization of charged SYK model in two different phases. We show that both the highly chaotic liquid phase and the dilute gas phase thermalize. Surprisingly the dilute gas state thermalizes instantaneously. We argue that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 Tousik Samui , Nilakash Sorokhaibam

We analyze a simple and efficient experimental protocol to cool the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model to low temperatures. The protocol utilizes local couplings between two copies of an SYK model to create a gapped adiabatic path, between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Thomas Schuster , Bryce Kobrin , Vincent P. Su , Hugo Marrochio , Norman Y. Yao

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

Recent investigations of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in the SYK chain of Majorana fermions have indicated that the model exhibits slow thermalization when initialized in certain states. The extent to which the heavy modes -- believed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Seyyed M. H. Halataei

We study the nonequilibrium quench dynamics of a mixed Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, with competing two bodies random interactions leading to maximally chaotic Non-Fermi Liquid dynamics and a single body term which dominates at low temperatures…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-22 Ancel Larzul , Marco Schiró

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) explains how closed unitary quantum systems can exhibit thermal behavior in pure states. In this work we examine a recently proposed microscopic model of a black hole in AdS$_2$, the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

We study non-equilibrium dynamics in SYK models using quantum quench. We consider models with two, four, and higher fermion interactions ($q=2, 4$, and higher) and use two different types of quench protocol, which we call step and bump…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Ritabrata Bhattacharya , Dileep P. Jatkar , Nilakash Sorokhaibam

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 this paper, we study the evaporation dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, with an initial temperature $T_\chi$, by coupling it to a thermal bath with lower temperature $T_\psi<T_\chi$ modeled by a larger SYK model. The coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Pengfei Zhang

We study the thermalization, after sudden and slow quenches, of an interacting model having a quantum phase transition from a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) non-Fermi liquid (NFL) to a Fermi liquid (FL). The model has SYK fermions coupled to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-20 Arijit Haldar , Prosenjit Haldar , Surajit Bera , Ipsita Mandal , Sumilan Banerjee

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

Anomalous thermalization, particularly the crossings of temperature trajectories from different initial states termed Mpemba crossings (MPCs), have intrigued scientists for decades. While recent studies in quantum systems suggest that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Xuanhua Wang , Jie Su , Jin Wang
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