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We describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models of fermions with all-to-all interactions. These provide tractable models of the dynamics of quantum systems without quasiparticle excitations. The Kadanoff-Baym…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Andreas Eberlein , Valentin Kasper , Subir Sachdev , Julia Steinberg

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

In this paper, we study the evaporation dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, with an initial temperature $T_\chi$, by coupling it to a thermal bath with lower temperature $T_\psi<T_\chi$ modeled by a larger SYK model. The coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Pengfei Zhang

We study various aspects of the mass deformed SYK model which can escape the interiors of pure boundary state black holes. SYK boundary states are given by a simple local boundary condition on the Majorana fermions and then evolved in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-20 Tomoki Nosaka , Tokiro Numasawa

System of Majorana zero modes with random infinite range interactions -- the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model -- is thought to exhibit an intriguing relation to the horizons of extremal black holes in two-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS$_2$)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-18 D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, in its simplest form, describes $k$ Majorana fermions with random all-to-all four-body interactions. We consider the SYK model in the framework of a many-body Altland-Zirnbauer classification that sees the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-21 Jan Behrends , Jens H. Bardarson , Benjamin Béri

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

The fundamental problem in much of physics and quantum chemistry is to optimize a low-degree polynomial in certain anticommuting variables. Being a quantum mechanical problem, in many cases we do not know an efficient classical witness to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Matthew B. Hastings , Ryan O'Donnell

We discuss a supersymmetric generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. These are quantum mechanical models involving $N$ Majorana fermions. The supercharge is given by a polynomial expression in terms of the Majorana fermions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Wenbo Fu , Davide Gaiotto , Juan Maldacena , Subir Sachdev

Calculations at finite temperatures are fundamental in different scientific fields, from nuclear physics to condensed matter. Evolution in imaginary time is a prominent classical technique for preparing thermal states of quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Francesco Turro

We study the Lindbladian dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, where the SYK model is coupled to Markovian reservoirs with jump operators that are either linear or quadratic in the Majorana fermion operators. Here, the linear jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-16 Anish Kulkarni , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu

Recently, studies have explored the statistics of matrix elements of local operators in the Lieb-Liniger model. It was found that the probability distribution function for off-diagonal matrix elements $\langle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Tingfei Li , Shuanghong Li

Random spin systems at low temperatures are glassy and feature computational hardness in finding low-energy states. We study the random all-to-all interacting fermionic Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model and prove that, in contrast, (I) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Eric R. Anschuetz , Chi-Fang Chen , Bobak T. Kiani , Robbie King

In this paper, we discuss the effects of the symmetries and related topological orders to the thermalization of many-body localized system. We consider the one-dimensional fermion chain system with open (or periodic) boundary condition,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 Chen-Huan Wu

Simulating the nonequilibrium dynamics of thermal states is a fundamental problem across scales from high energy to condensed matter physics. Quantum computers may provide a way to solve this problem efficiently. Preparing a thermal state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Jason Saroni , Henry Lamm , Peter P. Orth , Thomas Iadecola

Thermal equilibrium states of many-body Hamiltonians are essential for probing quantum chaos, finite-temperature phases of matter, and training quantum machine learning models, yet generating large collections of such states across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jiyu Jiang , Mingrui Jing , Jizhe Lai , Xin Wang , Lei Zhang

We investigate the infinite temperature dynamics of the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK$_4$) complimented with a single particle hopping term (SYK$_2$), leading to the chaos-to-integrable crossover of the many-body eigenstates. Due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera

We construct a new family of quantum chaotic models by combining multiple copies of integrable commuting SYK models. As each copy of the commuting SYK model does not commute with others, this construction breaks the integrability of each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Ping Gao , Han Lin , Cheng Peng

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev is a quantum mechanical model of $N$ Majorana fermions which displays a number of appealing features -- solvability in the strong coupling regime, near-conformal invariance and maximal chaos -- which make it a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-17 Stéphane Dartois , Harold Erbin , Swapnamay Mondal

We study a distribution of thermal states given by random Hamiltonians with a local structure. We show that the ensemble of thermal states monotonically approaches the unitarily invariant ensemble with decreasing temperature if all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Yoshifumi Nakata , Tobias J. Osborne