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The complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (cSYK) model is a charge-conserving model of randomly interacting fermions. The interaction term can be chosen such that the model exhibits chiral symmetry. Then, depending on the charge sector and the number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 Jan Behrends , Benjamin Béri

We study the non-stabilizerness or quantum magic of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev ($\rm SYK$) model, a prototype example of maximally chaotic quantum matter. We show that the Majorana spectrum of its ground state, encoding the spreading of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Surajit Bera , Marco Schirò

The search for a quantum theory of gravity has led to the discovery of quantum many-body systems that are dual to gravitational models with quantum properties. The perhaps most famous of these systems is the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model.…

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 analyze the phase diagram of the Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, which describes complex fermions randomly interacting with real bosons via a Yukawa coupling, at finite temperatures and varying fermion density. In a recent work [Phys.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Wei Wang , Andrew Davis , Gaopei Pan , Yuxuan Wang , Zi Yang Meng

We show that the proper inclusion of soft reparameterization modes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of $N$ randomly interacting Majorana fermions reduces its long-time behavior to that of Liouville quantum mechanics. As a result, all zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-15 Dmitry Bagrets , Alexander Altland , Alex Kamenev

Through a mixture of analytic and numerical techniques, we explore the optimal approximation by a free Majorana state to individual disorder realizations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, along with a generalization of it. We elucidate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-02 Daniel Ish , Mark Srednicki

We show that a non-Hermitian two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model can provide thermodynamic structure equivalent to Hermitian two coupled SYK model. The energy spectrum, the entanglement degree of the ground states and the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-21 Wenhe Cai , Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge , Masataka Matsumoto , Sang-Jin Sin

Periodically driven quantum matter can realize exotic dynamical phases. In order to understand how ubiquitous and robust these phases are, it is pertinent to investigate the heating dynamics of generic interacting quantum systems. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-31 Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap

Glassy dynamics have time-reparametrization `softness': glasses fluctuate, and respond to external perturbations, primarily by changing the pace of their evolution. Remarkably, the same situation also appears in toy models of quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Jorge Kurchan

We study quantum SU($M$) spins with all-to-all and random Heisenberg exchange interactions of root-mean-square strength $J$. The $M \rightarrow \infty$ model has a spin liquid ground state with the spinons obeying the equations of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Maine Christos , Felix M. Haehl , Subir Sachdev

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

We make lattice generalization of two well-known zero-dimensional models of quantum spin glass, Sachdev-Ye (SY) and spherical quantum $p$-spin glass model, to one dimension for studying crossovers in non-local scrambling dynamics due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-08 Venkata Lokesh K. Y , Surajit Bera , Sumilan Banerjee

Any quantum state is fully specified by the expectation values of a complete set of Hermitian operators. For a system of Majorana fermions, such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, this set of observables can be taken to be all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Valérie Bettaque , Brian Swingle

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a paradigm for extreme quantum chaos, non-Fermi-liquid behavior, and holographic matter. Yet, the dense random all-to-all interactions that characterize it are an extreme challenge for realistic…

We study thermalization dynamics in a fermion-phonon variant of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model coupled to an external cold thermal bath of harmonic oscillators. We find that quantum critical fermions thermalize more efficiently than phonons,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-02 Hossein Hosseinabadi , Shane P. Kelly , Jörg Schmalian , Jamir Marino

We study the quantum phase transition upon variation of the fermionic density $\nu$ in a solvable model with random Yukawa interactions between $N$ bosons and $M$ fermions, dubbed the Yukawa-SYK model. We show that there are two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-24 Yuxuan Wang , Andrey V. Chubukov

We consider the time evolution of multiple clusters of Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK), i.e. systems of N Majorana fermions with a noisy interaction term. In addition to the unitary evolution, we introduce two-fermion monitorings. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Anastasiia Tiutiakina , Hugo Lóio , Guido Giachetti , Jacopo De Nardis , Andrea De Luca

We study a large-$N$ bosonic quantum mechanical sigma-model with a spherical target space subject to disordered interactions, more colloquially known as the $p$-spin spherical model. Replica symmetry is broken at low temperatures and for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-04 Tarek Anous , Felix M. Haehl

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