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We study the thermodynamic properties of a two-site coupled complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in the large $N$ limit by solving the saddle-point Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equations. We find that its phase diagram is richer than in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Antonio M. García-García , Jie Ping Zheng , Vaios Ziogas

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 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

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 out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ fermions with a $q$-body interaction of infinite range, coupled to a Markovian environment. Close to the infinite-temperature steady state, the real-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Jie Ping Zheng

The intricacies of black hole ringdown analysis are amplified by the absence of a complete set of orthogonal basis functions for quasinormal modes. Although damped sinusoids effectively fit the ringdown signals from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Hengrui Zhu , Justin L. Ripley , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Frans Pretorius

We investigate the replica problem for Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. First, we consider $n-$replicas of the non-supersymmetric SYK model, finding that this $n$-replica model is solvable only under specific conditions. We then introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Xian-Hui Ge , Chenhao Zhang

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

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

In this work, we investigate the thermodynamic properties and quasinormal modes of a regular Dymnikova-Letelier black hole. Starting from the Einstein field equations sourced by an effective anisotropic fluid, we analyze the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 L. C. N. Santos , L. G. Barbosa

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

Quantum chaos is one of the distinctive features of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ Majorana fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with infinite-range two-body interactions, which is attracting a lot of interest as a toy model for holography.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Antonio M. García-García , Bruno Loureiro , Aurelio Romero-Bermúdez , Masaki Tezuka

We investigate two sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) systems coupled by a bilinear term as a holographic quantum mechanical description of an eternal traversable wormhole in the low temperature limit. Each SYK system consists of $N$ Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Elena Caceres , Anderson Misobuchi , Rafael Pimentel

These notes are a short introduction to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We discuss: SYK and tensor models as a new class of large N quantum field theories, the near-conformal invariance in the infrared, the computation of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Vladimir Rosenhaus

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We calculate the spectrum of quasinormal modes of slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes. Using a perturbative double expansion method, second order in rotation and first order in non-radial perturbations, we obtain the system of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo

We develop an analytic eikonal description of perturbations for four-dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity. Using first-order Schutz--Will WKB together with a small-coupling expansion and a large-$\ell$ expansion, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexey Dubinsky

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

It has been known that the large-$q$ complex SYK model falls under the same universality class as that of van der Waals (mean-field) and saturates the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford bound, both features shared by various black holes. This makes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Jan C. Louw , Linda M. van Manen , Rishabh Jha

We present a detailed quantitative analysis of spectral correlations in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We find that the deviations from universal Random Matrix Theory (RMT) behavior are due to a small number of long-wavelength…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yiyang Jia , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot