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Many-body chaos has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding thermalization in strongly interacting quantum systems. While recent analytic advances have sharpened our intuition for many-body chaos in certain large $N$ theories, it…

We study the onset of RMT dynamics in the mass-deformed SYK model (i.e. an SYK model deformed by a quadratic random interaction) in terms of the strength of the quadratic deformation. We use as chaos probes both the connected unfolded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Tomoki Nosaka , Dario Rosa , Junggi Yoon

We study thermalization of charged SYK model in two different phases. We show that both the highly chaotic liquid phase and the dilute gas phase thermalize. Surprisingly the dilute gas state thermalizes instantaneously. We argue that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 Tousik Samui , Nilakash Sorokhaibam

Understanding how quantum systems transition from integrable to fully chaotic behavior remains a central open problem in physics. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model provides a paradigmatic framework for studying many-body chaos and…

We study some general properties of coupled quantum systems. We consider simple interactions between two copies of identical Hamiltonians such as the SYK model, Pauli spin chains with random magnetic field and harmonic oscillators. Such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Fabien Alet , Masanori Hanada , Antal Jevicki , Cheng Peng

We explore computationally tractable deformations of the SYK model. The deformed theories are described by the sum of two SYK Hamiltonians with differing numbers, $q$ and $\tilde{q}$, of interacting fermions. In the large $N$ limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Dionysios Anninos , Damián A. Galante , Sameer U. Sheorey

Weakly perturbed integrable many-body systems are typically chaotic, and thermal at late times. However, there are distinct relationships between the timescales for thermalization and chaos. The typical relationship is confined chaos: when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-19 Hyeongjin Kim , Robin Schäfer , David M. Long , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anushya Chandran

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) or embedded random ensembles are models of $N$ fermions with random k-body interactions. They play an important role in understanding black hole dynamics, quantum chaos, and thermalization. We study out of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Javier M. Magan

While plenty of results have been obtained for single-particle quantum systems with chaotic dynamics through a semiclassical theory, much less is known about quantum chaos in the many-body setting. We contribute to recent efforts to make a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-07 Maram Akila , Boris Gutkin , Peter Braun , Daniel Waltner , Thomas Guhr

We introduce randomness into a class of integrable models and study the spectral form factor as a diagnostic to distinguish between randomness and chaos. Spectral form factors exhibit a characteristic dip-ramp-plateau behavior in the $N>2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Pak Hang Chris Lau , Chen-Te Ma , Jeff Murugan , Masaki Tezuka

We establish the integrability of a family of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with uniform $p$-body interactions. We derive the R-matrix and mutually commuting transfer matrices that generate the Hamiltonians of these models, and obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Kohei Fukai , Hosho Katsura

We study chaos-integrability transition purely within a BPS subspace of a specific supersymmetric model that interpolates between the chaotic $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYK model and an integrable $\mathcal{N}=2$ "commuting" SYK model. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Leon Miyahara , Shono Shibuya

We study the double-scaling limit of SYK (DS-SYK) model and elucidate the underlying quantum group symmetry. The DS-SYK model is characterized by a parameter $q$, and in the $q\rightarrow 1$ and low-energy limit it goes over to the familiar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-29 Micha Berkooz , Mikhail Isachenkov , Prithvi Narayan , Vladimir Narovlansky

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a rare example of a strongly-interacting system that is analytically tractable. Tractability arises because the model is largely structureless by design and therefore artificial: while the interaction is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-24 Johannes Dieplinger , Soumya Bera , Ferdinand Evers

The 0+1-d Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) fermionic model attracts nowadays a wide spread interest of the Condensed Matter community, as a benchmark toy model for strong electron correlation and non Fermi Liquid behavior. It is exactly solvable in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 A. Tagliacozzo

We study spectral and thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, a variant of the $k$-body embedded random ensembles studied for several decades in the context of nuclear physics and quantum chaos. We show analytically that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Antonio M. García-García , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Several condensed-matter platforms have been proposed recently to realize the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model in their low-energy limit. In these proposed realizations, the characteristic SYK behavior is expected to occur under certain…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-18 Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise , Chengshu Li , Marcel Franz

We investigate chaotic to integrable transition in two types of hybrid SYK models which contain both $ q=4 $ SYK with interaction $ J $ and $ q=2 $ SYK with an interaction $ K $ in type-I or $(q=2)^2$ SYK with an interaction $ \sqrt{K} $ in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-21 Fadi Sun , Yu Yi-Xiang , Jinwu Ye , W. -M. Liu

We investigate the onset of chaos in a periodically kicked Dicke model (KDM), using the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) as a diagnostic tool, in both the oscillator and the spin subspaces. In the large spin limit, the classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-26 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Ray , Subhasis Sinha

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