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In this work, we investigate whether the Kitaev honeycomb model can serve as a starting point to realize the intriguing physics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. The starting point is to strain the system, which leads to flat bands…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-14 Mikael Fremling , Lars Fritz

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model attracts attention in the context of information scrambling, which represents delocalization of quantum information and is quantified by the out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC). The SYK model contains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-20 Eiki Iyoda , Hosho Katsura , Takahiro Sagawa

We study how Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) interactions can arise from localized single-particle states on a system that is effectively one dimensional. If a local interaction is projected onto coarse localized orbitals, the resulting couplings…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Hrant Topchyan , Tigran A. Sedrakyan

Disordered quantum systems feature an energy scale know as the Thouless energy. For energy ranges below this scale, the properties of the energy spectrum can be described by random matrix theory. Above this scale a different behavior sets…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Richard Berkovits

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

The growth of information scrambling, captured by out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), is a central indicator of the nature of many-body quantum dynamics. Here, we compute analytically the complete time dependence of the OTOC…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-ping Zheng

We give qualitative arguments for the mesoscopic nature of the Sachdev-Yee-Kitaev (SYK) model in the holographic regime with $q^2/N\ll 1$ with $N$ Majorana particles coupled by antisymmetric and random interactions of range $q$. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Yizhuang Liu , Maciej A. Nowak , Ismail Zahed

We study the non-stabilizerness or quantum magic of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($\rm SYK$) model, a prototype example of maximally chaotic quantum matter. We show that the Majorana spectrum of its ground state, encoding the spreading of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Surajit Bera , Marco Schirò

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has emerged as a new paradigm of the non-Fermi-liquid behavior. Here we investigate a possibility of having a superconducting off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) and a pseudogap phase within the SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Hanteng Wang , A. L. Chudnovskiy , Alexander Gorsky , Alex Kamenev

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

We study the effect of non-Gaussian average over the random couplings in a complex version of the celebrated Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Using a Polchinski-like equation and random tensor Gaussian universality, we show that the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 T. Krajewski , M. Laudonio , R. Pascalie , A. Tanasa

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 describe the dynamics of many-body quantum chaotic systems at all time scales by studying the Green's and out-of-time order correlation (OTOC) functions of the four-body, $N$-Majorana Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. By combining the scramblon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie-Ping Zheng

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model shows chaotic behavior with a maximal Lyapunov exponent. In this paper, we investigate the four-point function of a SYK-type model numerically, which gives us access to its Lyapunov exponent. The model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-29 A. S. Shankar , M. Fremling , S. Plugge , L. Fritz

We study chaotic many-body quantum dynamics in a minimal model with spatial structure and local interactions. It has a time-independent Hamiltonian, in contrast to quantum circuits and Brownian models, and is simple at the single-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 J. T. Chalker , Dominik Hahn

Quantum computers are expected to be vital for exploring complex dynamics in many-body quantum systems. Thus, validating established results on current quantum computers is essential for evaluating their future utility. Hence, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Kwangmin Yu , Raza Sabbir Sufian

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 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 describes Majorana fermions with random interaction, which displays many interesting properties such as non-Fermi liquid behavior, quantum chaos, emergent conformal symmetry and holographic duality. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Yiming Chen , Hui Zhai , Pengfei Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the effect of supersymmetry on the symmetry classification of random matrix theory ensembles. We mainly consider the random matrix behaviors in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Tianlin Li , Junyu Liu , Yuan Xin , Yehao Zhou