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We construct an $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauged quantum mechanics, by starting from the 3d Chern-Simons-matter theory holographically dual to massive Type IIA string theory on AdS$_4 \times S^6$, and Kaluza-Klein reducing on $S^2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Francesco Benini , Saman Soltani , Ziruo Zhang

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is a $(0+1)$-dimensional model describing Majorana fermions or complex fermions with random interactions. This model has various interesting properties such as approximate local criticality (power law correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Yingfei Gu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Douglas Stanford

Motivated by the formalism of string bit models, or quantum matrix models, we study a class of simple Hamiltonian models of quantum gravity type in two space-time dimensions. These string bit models are special cases of a more abstract…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Durhuus , C. -W. H. Lee

It has been argued that a finite effective temperature emerges and characterizes the thermal property of double-scaled SYK model in the infinite temperature limit. Meanwhile, in the static patch of de Sitter, the maximally entangled state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Jiuci Xu

We study thermodynamic phase transitions between integrable and chaotic dynamics. We do so by analyzing models that interpolate between the chaotic double scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) and the integrable $p$-spin systems, in a limit where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-24 Micha Berkooz , Nadav Brukner , Yiyang Jia , Ohad Mamroud

The Schwarzian theory, which governs the universal low-energy dynamics of near-extremal black holes and the SYK model, can be characterised as an integral over a particular coadjoint orbit of the Virasoro group. We describe and solve a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Henry Maxfield

This is a review/announcement of results concerning the connection between certain exactly solvable two-dimensional models of statistical mechanics, namely loop models, and the equivariant $K$-theory of the cotangent bundle of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Paul Zinn-Justin

We study aspects of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) quantum gravity in two-dimensional nearly de Sitter (dS) spacetime, as well as pure de Sitter quantum gravity in three dimensions. These are each theories of boundary modes, which include a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen , Alexander Maloney

A colloquium style review of the connections between the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and strange metals without quasiparticles, and between the SYK model and the quantum properties of black holes. Along with other insights, this connection has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Subir Sachdev

We show that the quantum critical point (QCP) between a diffusive metal and ferromagnetic (or antiferromagnetic) phases in the SYK chain has a gravitational description corresponding to the double-trace deformation in an AdS$_2$ chain.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-31 Shao-Kai Jian , Zhuo-Yu Xian , Hong Yao

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 show that a single-fermion quantum dot acquires odd-frequency Gor'kov anomalous averages in proximity to strongly correlated Majorana zero modes, described by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Despite the presence of finite anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Nikolay V. Gnezdilov

We develop an analytical approach to the spectral form factor and out-of-time ordered correlators in zero-dimensional Brownian models of quantum chaos. The approach expresses these spectral correlations as part of a closed hierarchy of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Tara Kalsi , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

We show how the stochastic stabilization provides both the weak coupling genus expansion and a strong coupling expansion of 2d quantum gravity. The double scaling limit is described by a hamiltonian which is unbounded from below, but which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Ambjorn , C. F. Kristjansen

A class of tensor models were recently outlined as potentially calculable examples of holography: their perturbative large-$N$ behavior is similar to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, but they are fully quantum mechanical (in the sense…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-04 Chethan Krishnan , Sambuddha Sanyal , P. N. Bala Subramanian

Two new methods for investigation of two-dimensional quantum systems, whose Hamiltonians are not amenable to separation of variables, are proposed. 1)The first one - $SUSY-$ separation of variables - is based on the intertwining relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Cannata , M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

We consider two-dimensional quantum gravity endowed with a positive cosmological constant and coupled to a conformal field theory of large and positive central charge. We study cosmological properties at the classical and quantum level. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Beatrix Mühlmann

We compute the exact density of states and 2-point function of the $\mathcal{N} =2$ super-symmetric SYK model in the large $N$ double-scaled limit, by using combinatorial tools that relate the moments of the distribution to sums over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 Micha Berkooz , Nadav Brukner , Vladimir Narovlansky , Amir Raz

We discuss some classical and quantum properties of 2d gravity models involving metric and a scalar field. Different models are parametrized in terms of a scalar potential. We show that a general Liouville-type model with exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Russo , A. A. Tseytlin

A quantum mechanical model that realizes the $ \mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$-graded generalization of the one-dimensional supertranslation algebra is proposed. This model shares some features with the well-known Witten model and is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Andrew James Bruce , Steven Duplij