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A brief survey of some random quantum models with infinite-range couplings is presented, ranging from the quantum Ising model to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model was the first to realize an extensive zero temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Subir Sachdev

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

Many-body chaos has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding thermalization in strongly interacting quantum systems. While recent analytic advances have sharpened our intuition for many-body chaos in certain large $N$ theories, it…

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model provides an uncommon example of a chaotic theory that can be analysed analytically. In the deep infrared limit, the original model has an emergent conformal (reparametrisation) symmetry that is broken both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

We solve for the exact energy spectrum, 2-point and 4-point functions of the complex SYK model, in the double scaling limit at all energy scales. This model has a $U(1)$ global symmetry. The analysis shows how to incorporate a chemical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Micha Berkooz , Vladimir Narovlansky , Himanshu Raj

The SYK model consists of $N\gg 1$ fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with a random, all-to-all quartic interaction. Recently, Kitaev has found that the SYK model is maximally chaotic and has proposed it as a model of holography. We solve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Joseph Polchinski , Vladimir Rosenhaus

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

We study the original Sachdev-Ye (SY) model in its Majorana fermion representation which can be called the two indices Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Its advantage over the original SY model in the $ SU(M) $ complex fermion representation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Jinwu Ye

We investigate the replica problem for Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. First, we consider $n-$replicas of the non-supersymmetric SYK model, finding that this $n$-replica model is solvable only under specific conditions. We then introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Xian-Hui Ge , Chenhao Zhang

Estimating thermal expectations of local observables is a natural target for quantum advantage. We give a simple classical algorithm that approximates thermal expectations for Gibbs states of local Hamiltonians, and we show it has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Alexander Zlokapa , Bobak T. Kiani

We study a version of the 2-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK$_{2}$) model whose complex fermions exhibit twisted boundary conditions on the thermal circle. As we show, this is physically equivalent to coupling the fermions to a 1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Jeff Murugan , Ruach Pillay Slayen , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We study the high temperature (or small inverse temperature $\beta$) expansion of the free energy of double scaled SYK model. We find that this expansion is a convergent series with a finite radius of convergence. It turns out that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Kazumi Okuyama

We compute the thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models of fermions with a conserved fermion number, $\mathcal{Q}$. We extend a previously proposed Schwarzian effective action to include a phase field, and this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Richard A. Davison , Wenbo Fu , Antoine Georges , Yingfei Gu , Kristan Jensen , Subir Sachdev

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

We study the thermodynamic properties of a two-site coupled complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the large $N$ limit by solving the saddle-point Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equations. We find that its phase diagram is richer than in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Antonio M. García-García , Jie Ping Zheng , Vaios Ziogas

We study the Wishart-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (WSYK) model consisting of two $\hat{q}$-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with general complex couplings, one the Hermitian conjugate of the other, living in off-diagonal blocks of a larger WSYK…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-10 Lucas Sá , Antonio M. García-García

We consider a version of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with complex fermions. We apply the shadow formalism to find four-point functions in the leading order in $1/N$ and dimensions of operators present in the theory. We also compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 Ksenia Bulycheva

We study a quantum mechanical model proposed by Sachdev, Ye and Kitaev. The model consists of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions of a few fermions at a time. It it tractable in the large $N$ limit, where the classical variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Juan Maldacena , Douglas Stanford

We present a microscopic theory for quantum thermoelectric and heat transport in the Schwarzian regime of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. As a charged fermion realization of the SYK model in nanostructures we assume a setup based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrei I. Pavlov , Mikhail N. Kiselev

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