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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

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

This study explores the intricate real-time dynamics of a non-Hermitian system composed of two interconnected Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. A central finding reveals that an excitation initially localized in the right SYK subsystem can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-27 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge

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

We study a sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $N$ Majoranas where only $\sim k N$ independent matrix elements are non-zero. We identify a minimum $k \gtrsim 1$ for quantum chaos to occur by a level statistics analysis. The spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Dario Rosa , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical model of fermions interacting with $q$-body random couplings. For $q=2$, it describes free particles, and is non-chaotic in the many-body sense, while for $q>2$ it is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-19 Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen , Leon Balents

We study the SYK model -- an important toy model for quantum gravity on IBM's superconducting qubit quantum computers. By using a graph-coloring algorithm to minimize the number of commuting clusters of terms in the qubitized Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Muhammad Asaduzzaman , Raghav G. Jha , Bharath Sambasivam

According to holography, entanglement is the building block of spacetime; therefore, drastic changes of entanglement will lead to interesting transitions in the dual spacetime. In this paper, we study the effect of projective measurements…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Stefano Antonini , Brianna Grado-White , Shao-Kai Jian , Brian Swingle

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

Traversable wormhole teleportation in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model links quantum channel integrity to black hole interior dynamics, using teleportation fidelity to probe holographic scrambling. We subject the SYK boundary to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

We present a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical studies of non-Fermi liquids in condensed matter physics. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-06 Debanjan Chowdhury , Antoine Georges , Olivier Parcollet , Subir Sachdev

The SYK model consists of $N\gg 1$ fermions in $0+1$ dimensions with a random, all-to-all quartic interaction. Recently, Kitaev has found that the SYK model is maximally chaotic and has proposed it as a model of holography. We solve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Joseph Polchinski , Vladimir Rosenhaus

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 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

Recent discoveries have highlighted the significance of replica wormholes in resolving the information paradox and establishing the unitarity of black hole evaporation. In this letter, we propose the dissipative Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Hanteng Wang , Chang Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Antonio M. García-García

The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model may provide us with a good starting point for the experimental study of quantum chaos and holography in the laboratory. Still, the four-local interaction of fermions makes quantum simulation challenging,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Masanori Hanada , Sam van Leuven , Onur Oktay , Masaki Tezuka

Estimating local observables in Gibbs states is a central problem in quantum simulation. While this task is BQP-complete at asymptotically low temperatures, the possibility of quantum advantage at constant temperature remains open. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Alexander Zlokapa

We study a large $N$ tensor model with $O(N)^3$ symmetry containing two flavors of Majorana fermions, $\psi_1^{abc}$ and $\psi_2^{abc}$. We also study its random counterpart consisting of two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, each one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Jaewon Kim , Igor R. Klebanov , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Wenli Zhao

The SYK model proposed by Sachdev, Ye, and Kitaev consists of Majorana fermions that interact randomly four at a time. The model develops a dense spectrum above the ground state, due to which the model becomes nearly conformal. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-19 Jaewon Kim

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated metal with all-to-all random interactions (average strength $J$) between $N$ fermions (complex Dirac fermions or real Majorana fermions). In the large-$N$ limit a conformal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 N. V. Gnezdilov , J. A. Hutasoit , C. W. J. Beenakker