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The exploration of magnetic topological insulators is instrumental in exploring axion electrodynamics and intriguing transport phenomena, such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we report that a family of magnetic compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Yufei Zhao , Yiyang Jiang , Hyeonhu Bae , Kamal Das , Yongkang Li , Chao-Xing Liu , Binghai Yan

One of the most promising routes to non-fermi liquids and strange metals has been through SYK models \cite{Sachdev:2010um}, which necessarily involve large flavor degrees of freedom and interactions with imposed disorder. We introduce an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-07 G. C. Levine

Type II Weyl semimetal, a three dimensional gapless topological phase, has drawn enormous interest recently. These topological semimetals enjoy overtilted dispersion and Weyl nodes that separate the particle and hole pocket. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Weizhu Yi , Qiu-Shi Wang , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang

Building upon the spin-1/2 Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice, the Yao-Lee spin-orbital model provides exactly solvable quantum spin liquids with potentially better stability against perturbations due to the additional degree of freedom.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Jiefu Cen , Hae-Young Kee

While advances in electronic band theory have brought to light new topological systems, understanding the interplay of band topology and electronic interactions remains a frontier question. In this work, we predict new interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-26 Pedro Castro , Daniel Shaffer , Yi-Ming Wu , Luiz H. Santos

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is an $N$-modes fermionic model with infinite range random interactions. In this work, we study the thermal R\'enyi entropy for a subsystem of the SYK model using the path-integral formalism in the large-$N$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengfei Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen

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

Higher-order topological phases of matter have been extensively studied in various areas of physics. While the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example to study topological phases, it has not been explored whether a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Qi-Bo Zeng , Yan-Bin Yang , Yong Xu

The exploration of topological and transport properties of collinear antiferromagnets and the role of Kitaev interactions in realising topological states therein have rarely been systematically addressed in literature. In this context, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Shreya Debnath , Saurabh Basu

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 have drawn connections between the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and the multi-orbit Hatsugai-Kohmoto model, emphasizing their similarities and differences regarding chaotic behaviors. The features of the spectral form factor, such as the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-13 Ying-Lin Li , Chen-Te Ma , Po-Yao Chang

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 the phase diagram of spinless fermions with nearest and next-nearest neighbour density-density interactions on the honeycomb lattice at half-filling. Using Exact Diagonalization techniques of the full Hamiltonian and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-28 Sylvain Capponi , Andreas M. Läuchli

Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

We present a class of states with both topological and conventional Landau order that arise out of strongly interacting spinless fermions in fractionally filled and topologically non-trivial bands with Chern number $C=\pm 1$. These quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-11 Stefanos Kourtis , Maria Daghofer

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) in non-Hermitian lattice systems, associated with a point gap on the complex energy plane, has attracted great theoretical and experimental interest. Much less is studied on the so-called second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Weiwei Zhu , Jiangbin Gong

We study a model of $N$ fermions in a quantum dot, coupled to $M$ bosons by a disorder-induced complex Yukawa coupling (Yukawa-SYK model), in order to explore the interplay between non-Fermi liquid and superconductivity in a strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-22 Laura Classen , Andrey Chubukov

Topological phases and topological phase transitions (TPT) are among the most fantastic phenomena in Nature. Here we show that injecting a current may lead to new topological phases, especially new gapless topological metallic phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye

We develop a systematic and unified random matrix theory to classify Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) and supersymmetric (SUSY) SYK models and also work out the structure of the energy levels in one periodic table. The SYK with even $q$- and SUSY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Fadi Sun , Jinwu Ye