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The fundamental problem in much of physics and quantum chemistry is to optimize a low-degree polynomial in certain anticommuting variables. Being a quantum mechanical problem, in many cases we do not know an efficient classical witness to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Matthew B. Hastings , Ryan O'Donnell

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

The saturation of a recently proposed universal bound on the Lyapunov exponent has been conjectured to signal the existence of a gravity dual. This saturation occurs in the low temperature limit of the dense Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-02 Antonio M. García-García , Chang Liu , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

The study of quantum gravity in the form of the holographic duality has uncovered and motivated the detailed investigation of various diagnostics of quantum chaos. One such measure is the operator size distribution, which characterizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuri D. Lensky , Xiao-Liang Qi , Pengfei Zhang

We implement the Wormhole-Inspired Teleportation Protocol (WITP) in a pair of coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models prepared in a thermofield-double state, forming a quantum analog of a traversable wormhole. By varying parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Sudhanva Joshi , Sunil Kumar Mishra

A feature the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model shares with extremal black holes is an exponentially large number of ground states that preserve supersymmetry. In fact, the dimension of the ground state subsector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Jan Boruch , Henry W. Lin , Cynthia Yan

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is an $N$-modes fermionic model with infinite range random interactions. In this work, we study the thermal R\'enyi entropy for a subsystem of the SYK model using the path-integral formalism in the large-$N$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengfei Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Xiao Chen

Spectral correlations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. For Hermitian Hamiltonians, quantum chaotic motion is related to random matrix theory spectral correlations. Based on recent progress in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-23 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

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.…

Very recently two of the present authors have studied the chaos exponent of some Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK)-like models for arbitrary interaction strength [1]. These models carry supersymmetric (SUSY) or SUSY-like structures. Namely, bosons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-05 Jin Chen , Chen Ma , Chushun Tian

Utilizing singular value decomposition, our investigation focuses on the spectrum of the singular values within a sparse non-Hermitian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. Unlike the complex eigenvalues typical of non-Hermitian systems, singular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Pratik Nandy , Tanay Pathak , Masaki Tezuka

Given a class of $q$-local Hamiltonians, is it possible to find a simple variational state whose energy is a finite fraction of the ground state energy in the thermodynamic limit? Whereas product states often provide an affirmative answer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-15 Arijit Haldar , Omid Tavakol , Thomas Scaffidi

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, in its simplest form, describes $k$ Majorana fermions with random all-to-all four-body interactions. We consider the SYK model in the framework of a many-body Altland-Zirnbauer classification that sees the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-21 Jan Behrends , Jens H. Bardarson , Benjamin Béri

Motivated by recent studies of the information paradox in (1+1)-D anti-de Sitter spacetime with a bath described by a (1+1)-D conformal field theory, we study the dynamics of second R\'{e}nyi entropy of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Yiming Chen , Xiao-Liang Qi , Pengfei Zhang

The question of thermalization of a closed quantum system is of central interest in non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics. Here we present one such study analyzing the dynamics of a closed coupled Majorana SYK system. We have a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-26 Santiago Salazar Jaramillo , Rishabh Jha , Stefan Kehrein

Non-equilibrium dynamics of unentangled and entangled pure states in interacting quantum systems is crucial for harnessing quantum information and to understand quantum thermalization. We develop a general Schwinger-Keldysh (SK) field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-04 Rishik Perugu , Arijit Haldar , Sumilan Banerjee

We analyze thermal correlators in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model away from the maximally chaotic limit. Despite the absence of a weakly curved black hole dual, the two point function decomposes into a sum over a discrete set of quasinormal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Matthew Dodelson

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

We study the 2D fermionic SYK model with Majorana fermions, featuring a quartic kinetic term and a $2q$-body interaction with Gaussian disorder. By minimizing the effective action or solving the SD equation for $q=1$, we determine that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

We study the equilibrium dynamics of an infinite-range quantum Heisenberg model with random couplings, in which local magnetic moments arise from $\mathcal{N}_f$ flavors of spinful fermions. We employ an expansion in $\mathcal{N}_f$, which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Hossein Hosseinabadi , Subir Sachdev , Jamir Marino
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