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The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model incorporates rich physics, ranging from exotic non-Fermi liquid states without quasiparticle excitations, to holographic duality and quantum chaos. However, its experimental realization remains a daunting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Zhihuang Luo , Yi-Zhuang You , Jun Li , Chao-Ming Jian , Dawei Lu , Cenke Xu , Bei Zeng , Raymond Laflamme

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a rare example of a strongly-interacting system that is analytically tractable. Tractability arises because the model is largely structureless by design and therefore artificial: while the interaction is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera , Ferdinand Evers

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

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

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

We study chaos in a classical limit of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model obtained in a suitably defined large-S limit. The low-temperature Lyapunov exponent is found to depend linearly on temperature, with a slope that is parametrically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Thomas Scaffidi , Ehud Altman

We investigate minimal two-body Hamiltonians with random interactions that generate spectra resembling those of Gaussian random matrices, a phenomenon we term quadratic quantum chaos. Unlike integrable two-body fermionic systems, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Pallab Basu , Suman Das , Pratik Nandy

We present a complete symmetry classification of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $\mathcal{N}=0$, $1$ and $2$ supersymmetry (SUSY) on the basis of the Altland-Zirnbauer scheme in random matrix theory (RMT). For $\mathcal{N}=0$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-15 Takuya Kanazawa , Tilo Wettig

We present a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical studies of non-Fermi liquids in condensed matter physics. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Debanjan Chowdhury , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Subir Sachdev

It has been recently proposed by Maldacena and Qi that an eternal traversable wormhole in a two dimensional Anti de Sitter space (${\rm AdS}_2$) is the gravity dual of the low temperature limit of two Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Antonio M. García-García , Tomoki Nosaka , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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

Equilibrium quantum many-body systems in the vicinity of phase transitions generically manifest universality. In contrast, limited knowledge has been gained on possible universal characteristics in the non-equilibrium evolution of systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-24 Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Philipp Uhrich , Alessio Paviglianiti , Philipp Hauke

We point out that a classical analog of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model -- a solvable model of quantum many-body chaos, was studied long ago in the turbulence literature. Motivated by the Navier-Stokes equation in the turbulent regime and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Xu-Yao Hu , 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

Inspired by recent developments in the study of the model of double scaled SYK (DSSYK), as elucidated in a recent paper, we embark on a re-evaluation of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Our motivation stems from the insights gained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Davood Momeni

We analyze a model of qubits which we argue has an emergent quantum gravitational description similar to the fermionic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The model we consider is known as the quantum $q$-spin model because it features $q$-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Brian Swingle , Michael Winer

Some generalizations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and different patterns of their reparametrization symmetry breaking are discussed. The analysis of such (pseudo)holographic systems relates their generalized one-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 D. V. Khveshchenko

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a concrete solvable model to study non-Fermi liquid properties, holographic duality and maximally chaotic behavior. In this work, we consider a generalization of the SYK model that contains two SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Xin Chen , Ruihua Fan , Yiming Chen , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model provides an analytically tractable framework for exotic strongly correlated phases where conventional paradigms like Landau's Fermi liquid theory collapse. This review offers a pedagogical introduction to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Rishabh Jha

We argue that in certain class of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev(SYK) models the low energy physics at large N is governed by a non-local action rather than the Schwartzian action. We present a partial analytic and extensive numerical evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-15 Alexey Milekhin