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Understanding how quantum chaotic systems generate entanglement can provide insight into their microscopic chaotic dynamics and can help distinguish between different classes of chaotic behavior. Using von Neumann entanglement entropy, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

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

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

Traversable wormhole teleportation in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model links quantum channel integrity to black hole interior dynamics, using teleportation fidelity to probe holographic scrambling. We subject the SYK boundary to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

Holographic quantum matter exhibits an intriguing connection between quantum black holes and more conventional (albeit strongly interacting) quantum many-body systems. This connection is manifested in the study of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-03 M. Franz , M. Rozali

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

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

Strongly correlated metals comprise an enduring puzzle at the heart of condensed matter physics. Commonly a highly renormalized heavy Fermi liquid occurs below a small coherence scale, while at higher temperatures a broad incoherent regime…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-29 Xue-Yang Song , Chao-Ming Jian , Leon Balents

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

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

We study the original Sachdev-Ye (SY) model in its Majorana fermion representation which can be called the two indices Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Its advantage over the original SY model in the $ SU(M) $ complex fermion representation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-19 Jinwu Ye

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model can be used to describe black holes (BHs) in two-dimensional nearly-anti-de-Sitter gravity. We show that when such BHs are perturbed by a time-dependent negative-energy perturbation, their interior can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Ram Brustein , Yoav Zigdon

A celebrated realization of the holographic principle posits an approximate duality between the $(0+1)$-dimensional quantum mechanical SYK model and two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, mediated by the Schwarzian action as an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-26 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Nele Callebaut , Konstantin Weisenberger

The SYK model proposed by Sachdev, Ye, and Kitaev consists of Majorana fermions that interact randomly four at a time. The model develops a dense spectrum above the ground state, due to which the model becomes nearly conformal. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-19 Jaewon Kim

We study a series of perturbations on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We show that the chaotic non-Fermi liquid phase described by the ordinary $q = 4$ SYK model has marginally relevant/irrelevant (depending on the sign of the coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-05 Zhen Bi , Chao-Ming Jian , Yi-Zhuang You , Kelly Ann Pawlak , Cenke Xu

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 Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes electrons with random and all-to-all interactions, and realizes a many-body state without quasiparticle excitations, and a non-vanishing extensive entropy $S_0$ in the zero temperature limit. Its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Alexander Kruchkov , Aavishkar Patel , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

We study the spread of R\'enyi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-29 Yingfei Gu , Andrew Lucas , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

We argue that the SYK model provides a conditional realization of Cryptographic Censorship in JT gravity. By using the Weingarten calculus and random matrix universality, we prove that the SYK disorder ensemble is an approximate unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Pouya Golmohammadi