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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

The identification, description, and classification of topological features is an engine of discovery and innovation in several fields of physics. This research encompasses a broad variety of systems, from the integer and fractional Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-04 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Can Yin

We construct a sign-problem free variant of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model which keeps all the essential properties of the SYK model, including the analytic solvability in the large-$N$ limit and being maximally chaotic. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-26 Byungmin Kang , Junggi Yoon

We construct Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chains subjected to continuous monitoring and explore possible entanglement phase transitions therein. We analytically derive the effective action in the large-$N$ limit and show that an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-30 Shao-Kai Jian , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen , Brian Swingle , Pengfei Zhang

Spectral correlations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. For Hermitian Hamiltonians, quantum chaotic motion is related to random matrix theory spectral correlations. Based on recent progress in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-23 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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

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 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

We analyze the quantum chaotic behavior of the Yukawa-SYK model as a function of filling and temperature, which describes random Yukawa interactions between $N$ complex fermions and $M$ bosons in zero spatial dimensions, for both the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-25 Andrew Davis , Yuxuan Wang

In chaotic quantum systems the spectral form factor exhibits a universal linear ramp and plateau structure with superimposed erratic oscillations. The mean signal and the statistics of the noise can be probed by the moments of the spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrea Legramandi , Neil Talwar

We analyse a class of SYK models whose Hamiltonian is the sum of two SYK Hamiltonians with different numbers of fermions $q, \tilde q$ in each interaction. We consider both Euclidean and Lorentzian probes of the quantum system in the large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Weam Abou Hamdan , Damián A. Galante

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

Through tracing back to EA/SK models, we disentangle the construction logic of SYK model. During the construction, we recall the technical essence of replica method. Then we point out the redundance of the flavor group and the slave indices…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-18 Ming Chen , Yao-Zhong Zhang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has attracted widespread attention due to its relevance to diverse areas of physics, such as high temperature superconductivity, black holes, and quantum chaos. The model is, however, extremely challenging…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-12 Charles Creffield , Fernando Sols , Marco Schirò , Nathan Goldman

Many key features of the higher-dimensional Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model at {\it finite} $N$ remain unknown. Here we study the SYK chain consisting of $N$ ($N$$\ge$$2$) fermions per site with random interactions and hoppings between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-16 Xin Dai , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

A long period of linear growth in the spectral form factor provides a universal diagnostic of quantum chaos at intermediate times. By contrast, the behavior of the spectral form factor in disordered integrable many-body models is not well…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Michael Winer , Shao-Kai Jian , Brian Swingle

A colloquium style review of the connections between the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and strange metals without quasiparticles, and between the SYK model and the quantum properties of black holes. Along with other insights, this connection has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Subir Sachdev

We construct a class of matrix models, where supersymmetry (SUSY) is spontaneously broken at the matrix size $N$ infinite. The models are obtained by dimensional reduction of matrix-valued SUSY quantum mechanics. The potential of the models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Tsunehide Kuroki , Fumihiko Sugino

The complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is a charge-conserving model of randomly interacting fermions. The interaction term can be chosen such that the model exhibits chiral symmetry. Then, depending on the charge sector and the number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

We construct and study a chiral Sachdev-Ye (SY) model consisting of $N$ chiral SU$(M)_1$ Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models with current-current interactions among each other, which generalizes the 0+1d quantum chaotic SY spin model into 1+1d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-11 Yichen Hu , Biao Lian