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The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a disordered quantum mean-field model studied in condensed matter physics and the holographic theory of black holes. Its structural properties can be derived heuristically using a combination of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-05 David Gamarnik , Francisco Pernice , Alexander Schmidhuber , Alexander Zlokapa

We examine the thermalisation/localization trade off in an interacting and disordered Kitaev model, specifically addressing whether signatures of many-body localization can coexist with the systems topological phase. Using methods…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Stephen Nulty , Jiri Vala , Dganit Meidan , Graham Kells

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a conjecture on the nature of isolated quantum systems that guarantees the thermal behavior of subsystems when it is satisfied. ETH has been tested in various forms on a number of local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-18 Masudul Haque , Paul McClarty

We study a description of the large N limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in terms of quantum mechanics without quenched disorder. Instead of random couplings, we introduce massive scalar fields coupled to fermions, and study a small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-28 Takahiro Nishinaka , Seiji Terashima

Previous work on Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity has shown that, at low temperatures, the annealed entropy becomes negative and departs from the quenched entropy. From the perspective of the random-matrix theory (RMT) dual of JT gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Bowen Ouyang , Pratik Rath

We analyze a two-body nonhermitian two-site Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with the couplings of one site complex conjugated to the other site. This model, with no explicit coupling between the sites, shows an infinite number of phase transitions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes electrons with random and all-to-all interactions, and realizes a many-body state without quasiparticle excitations, and a non-vanishing extensive entropy $S_0$ in the zero temperature limit. Its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Alexander Kruchkov , Aavishkar Patel , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

The chiral SYK model is an 1+1 dimensional generalisation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with chiral Majorana fermions and homogeneous random interactions. In the large N limit, the model admits an exact solution of the two-point function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Avik Chakraborty , Manavendra Mahato

Non-equilibrium dynamics of unentangled and entangled pure states in interacting quantum systems is crucial for harnessing quantum information and to understand quantum thermalization. We develop a general Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-04 Rishik Perugu , Arijit Haldar , Sumilan Banerjee

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models in the $q\rightarrow\infty$ limit, where $q/2$ denotes the order of the random Dirac fermion interaction. We extend previous results by Eberlein et al.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-17 Jan C. Louw , Stefan Kehrein

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is of paramount importance for the understanding of both strange metals and a microscopic theory of two-dimensional gravity. We study the interplay between Stabilizer R\'enyi Entropy (SRE) and entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Barbara Jasser , Jovan Odavić , Alioscia Hamma

Quantum entanglement and quantum magic are two distinct fundamental resources that enable quantum systems to exhibit complex phenomena beyond the capabilities of classical computer simulations. While quantum entanglement has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Pengfei Zhang , Shuyan Zhou , Ning Sun

Understanding how quantum chaotic systems generate entanglement can provide insight into their microscopic chaotic dynamics and can help distinguish between different classes of chaotic behavior. Using von Neumann entanglement entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

We show that a non-Hermitian two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model can provide thermodynamic structure equivalent to Hermitian two coupled SYK model. The energy spectrum, the entanglement degree of the ground states and the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-21 Wenhe Cai , Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Masataka Matsumoto , Sang-Jin Sin

We study some general properties of coupled quantum systems. We consider simple interactions between two copies of identical Hamiltonians such as the SYK model, Pauli spin chains with random magnetic field and harmonic oscillators. Such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Fabien Alet , Masanori Hanada , Antal Jevicki , Cheng Peng

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

Several condensed-matter platforms have been proposed recently to realize the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in their low-energy limit. In these proposed realizations, the characteristic SYK behavior is expected to occur under certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-18 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Chengshu Li , Marcel Franz

We provide an overview of our numerical and analytical studies of isolated interacting quantum systems that are quenched out of equilibrium instantaneously. We describe the relaxation process to a new equilibrium and obtain lower bounds for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-04 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Davida Kollmar , Lea F. Santos

It is analytically shown that the asymptotic correlations in exactly solvable models following a quantum quench can behave essentially as thermal correlations provided the entanglement between two eigenmodes is sufficiently strong. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ming-Chiang Chung , Anibal Iucci , Miguel. A. Cazalilla