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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

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

This paper explores a novel connection between a thermodynamic and a dynamical systems perspective on emergent dynamical order. We provide evidence for a conjecture that Hamiltonian systems with mixed chaos spontaneously find regular…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-16 Pavel Chvykov , Jeremy England

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

Random spin systems at low temperatures are glassy and feature computational hardness in finding low-energy states. We study the random all-to-all interacting fermionic Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model and prove that, in contrast, (I) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Eric R. Anschuetz , Chi-Fang Chen , Bobak T. Kiani , Robbie King

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated quantum system that shows a strong signature of quantum chaos. Due to its chaotic nature, the simulation of real-time dynamics becomes quickly intractable by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Etienne Granet , Yuta Kikuchi , Henrik Dreyer , Enrico Rinaldi

Optimal (reversible) processes in thermodynamics can be modelled as step-by-step processes, where the system is successively thermalized with respect to different Hamiltonians by an external thermal bath. However, in practice interactions…

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

Is there a quantum many-body system that scrambles information as fast as a black hole? The Sachev-Ye-Kitaev model can saturate the conjectured bound for chaos, but it requires random all-to-all couplings of Majorana fermions that are hard…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-14 Ahmet Keles , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is an all-to-all interacting Majorana fermion model for many-body quantum chaos and the holographic correspondence. Here we construct fermionic all-to-all Floquet quantum circuits of random four-body gates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-15 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

We present a functional-based approach to compute thermal expectation values for actions expressed in the $G-\Sigma$ formalism, applicable to any time sequence ordering. Utilizing this framework, we analyze the linear response to an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-08 Rishabh Jha , Stefan Kehrein , Jan C. Louw

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

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

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

Many physical phenomena, including thermalization in open quantum systems and quantum Gibbs sampling, are modeled by Lindbladians approximating a system weakly coupled to a bath. Understanding the convergence speed of these Lindbladians to…

We study the dynamics of an open quantum system interacting with a non-thermal bath. Here, "non-thermal" means that the bath modes do not need to have the same temperature, but they have an effective temperature distribution. We find that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Sheng-Wen Li , Moochan B. Kim , Marlan O. Scully

There is presently considerable interest in accurately simulating the evolution of open systems for which Markovian master equations fail. Examples are systems that are time-dependent and/or strongly damped. A number of elegant methods have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Luciano Silvestri , Kurt Jacobs , Vanja Dunjko , Maxim Olshanii

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) or embedded random ensembles are models of $N$ fermions with random k-body interactions. They play an important role in understanding black hole dynamics, quantum chaos, and thermalization. We study out of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Javier M. Magan

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 introduce two disorder-free variants of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, demonstrate their integrability, and study their static and dynamical properties. Unlike diagrammatic techniques, the integrability of these models allows us to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Soshun Ozaki , Hosho Katsura