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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 the SYK$_4$ model with a weak SYK$_2$ term of magnitude $\Gamma$ beyond the simplest perturbative limit considered previously. For intermediate values of the perturbation strength, $J/N \ll \Gamma \ll J/\sqrt{N}$, fluctuations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 A. V. Lunkin , A. Yu. Kitaev , M. V. Feigel'man

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions interacting with $q$-body random couplings. For $q=2$, it describes free particles, and is non-chaotic in the many-body sense, while for $q>2$ it is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

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

The existence of phase-separated states is an essential feature of infinite-volume systems with a thermal, first-order phase transition. At energies between those at which the phase transition takes place, equilibrium homogeneous states are…

We investigate the onset of thermalization and quantum chaos in finite one-dimensional gapped systems of hard-core bosons. Integrability in these systems is broken by next-nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions, which also generate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-12 Marcos Rigol , Lea F. Santos

We evaluate the finite temperature partition sum and correlation functions of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Starting from a recently proposed mapping of the SYK model onto Liouville quantum mechanics, we obtain our results by exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 Dmitry Bagrets , Alexander Altland , Alex Kamenev

We study chaotic-integrable transition and the nature of quantum chaos in SYK model with chemical potential. We use a novel numerical technique to calculate the partition function explicitly. We show the phase transition in the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Nilakash Sorokhaibam

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

We detail the experimental observation of the non-equilibrium many-body phenomenon prethermalization. We study the dynamics of a rapidly and coherently split one-dimensional Bose gas. An analysis based on the use of full quantum mechanical…

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

The established thermodynamic formalism of chaotic dynamics, valid at statistical equilibrium, is here generalized to systems out of equilibrium, that have yet to relax to a steady state. A relation between information, escape rate, and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-28 Domenico Lippolis

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

The short time (large energy) behavior of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK) is one of the main motivation to the growing interest garnered by this model. True chaotic behaviour sets in at the Thouless time, which can be extracted from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-08 Richard Berkovits

We investigate the finite-temperature phase diagram of the classical Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the hexagonal lattice. Due to the anisotropy introduced by the Kitaev interaction, the model is magnetically ordered at low temperatures for all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-19 Craig Price , Natalia B. Perkins

The out of equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK), comprising $N$ Majoranas with random all-to-all four-body interactions, minimally coupled to a Markovian bath modeled by the Lindblad formalism, displays intriguing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jie-ping Zheng , Jorge Dukelsky , Rafael A. Molina , Antonio M. García-García

Many aspects of many-body localization (MBL) transitions remain elusive so far. Here, we propose a higher-dimensional generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and show that it exhibits a MBL transition. The model on a bipartite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-17 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Pole-skipping offers compelling evidence for the hydrodynamic origin of chaotic behavior in strongly coupled quantum systems. We demonstrate that the cumulative effect of higher-order corrections to the hydrodynamic diffusive mode, captured…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Hyun-Sik Jeong

In this paper we study the phase structure of two Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models (L-system and R-system) coupled by a simple interaction, with imperfectly correlated disorder. When the disorder of the two systems are perfectly correlated,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Tomoki Nosaka , Tokiro Numasawa

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