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The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated quantum system that shows a strong signature of quantum chaos. Due to its chaotic nature, the simulation of real-time dynamics becomes quickly intractable by means of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Etienne Granet , Yuta Kikuchi , Henrik Dreyer , Enrico Rinaldi

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

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

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 study a dual flavor fermion model where each of the flavors form a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) system with arbitrary and possibly distinct $q$-body interactions. The crucial new element is an arbitrary all-to-all $r$-body interaction between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Arijit Haldar , Vijay B. Shenoy

We study the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) numerically and investigate thermodynamic behavior of cSYK model across varying chemical potentials. We discover that the cSYK model remarkably mirrors the first-order phase transition seen in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Yi-Cheng Rui

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

We study a quantum mechanical model proposed by Sachdev, Ye and Kitaev. The model consists of $N$ Majorana fermions with random interactions of a few fermions at a time. It it tractable in the large $N$ limit, where the classical variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Juan Maldacena , Douglas Stanford

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

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

Complex many-particle quantum entanglement is a central theme in two distinct major topics in physics: the strange metal state found in numerous correlated electron compounds, and the quantum theory of black holes in Einstein gravity. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-17 Subir Sachdev

We discuss the recent extension of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) microscopic model by Patel and Sachdev in arXiv:1906.03265, which demonstrates the characteristic features of the Khodel-Shaginyan fermion condensate -- the existence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-17 G. E. Volovik

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

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model has emerged as a new paradigm of the non-Fermi-liquid behavior. Here we investigate a possibility of having a superconducting off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO) and a pseudogap phase within the SYK…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Hanteng Wang , A. L. Chudnovskiy , Alexander Gorsky , Alex Kamenev

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, known for its strong quantum correlations and chaotic behavior, serves as a key platform for quantum gravity studies. However, variationally preparing thermal states on near-term quantum processors for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Akash Kundu

This review is a contribution to a book dedicated to the memory of Michael E. Fisher. The first example of a quantum many body system not expected to have any quasiparticle excitations was the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-22 Subir Sachdev

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

In arXiv:1707.02197, the authors considered the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with quadratic perturbation (also known as mass-deformed SYK), and claimed that the quantum Lyapunov exponent would vanish in the regime of low temperature and small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jaewon Kim , Xiangyu Cao

Electronic transport in nano-structures, such as long molecules or 2D exfoliated flakes, often goes through a nearly degenerate set of single-particle orbitals. Here we show that in such cases a conspiracy of the narrow band and strong e-e…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-06 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Kamenev

We study the open quantum dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model described by the Lindblad master equation, where the SYK model is coupled to Markovian reservoirs with jump operators that are either linear or quadratic in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Kohei Kawabata , Anish Kulkarni , Jiachen Li , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu