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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 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 review recent progress regarding the double scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and other $p$-local quantum mechanical random Hamiltonians. These models exhibit an expansion using chord diagrams, which can be solved by combinatorial methods.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-28 Micha Berkooz , Ohad Mamroud

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a model of $q$ interacting fermions. Gross and Rosenhaus have proposed a generalization of the SYK model which involves fermions with different flavors. In terms of Feynman graphs, those flavors are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-22 Valentin Bonzom , Luca Lionni , Adrian Tanasa

We investigate the possibility that the geometry dual to a typical AdS black hole microstate corresponds to the extended AdS-Schwarzschild geometry, including a region spacelike to the exterior. We argue that this region can be described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Jan de Boer , Rik van Breukelen , Sagar F. Lokhande , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Erik Verlinde

The Kitaev model is exactly solvable in terms of Majorana fermions hopping on a honeycomb lattice and coupled to a static $\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge field, giving the possibility of $\pi$-vortices in hexagonal plaquettes. In the vortex-full…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-28 Surajit Basak , Jean-Noël Fuchs

We study the effect of modular flow on correlation functions of fermions in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model coupled weakly to a bath, which we take to be another SYK model. The system and bath, together are prepared in the thermofield…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Nicolò Bragagnolo , S. Prem Kumar

The random matrix theory (RMT) can be used to classify both topological phases of matter and quantum chaos. We develop a systematic and transformative RMT to classify the quantum chaos in the colored Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model first…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Fadi Sun , Yu Yi-Xiang , Jinwu Ye , W. M. Liu

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

We investigate the supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, $N$ Majorana fermions with infinite range interactions in $0+1$ dimensions. We have found that, close to the ground state $E \approx 0$, discrete symmetries alter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Antonio M. García-García , Yiyang Jia , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We investigate operator growth in a Brownian spin Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model with random all-to-all interactions, focusing on the full operator-size distribution. For Hamiltonians containing interactions of order two up to $L$, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Tingfei Li , Miao Wang , Jianghui Yu

We show that one can quantum simulate the dynamics of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with $N$ Majorana modes for time $t$ to precision $\epsilon$ with gate complexity $O(N^{7/2} t + N^{5/2} t \,{\rm polylog}(N/ \epsilon))$. In addition to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Ryan Babbush , Dominic Berry , Hartmut Neven

We study a version of the 2-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK$_{2}$) model whose complex fermions exhibit twisted boundary conditions on the thermal circle. As we show, this is physically equivalent to coupling the fermions to a 1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Jeff Murugan , Ruach Pillay Slayen , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

In many-body chaotic systems, the size of an operator generically grows in Heisenberg evolution, which can be measured by certain out-of-time-ordered four-point functions. However, these only provide a coarse probe of the full underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-18 Xiao-Liang Qi , Alexandre Streicher

In this work, we study a type of commuting SYK model in which all terms in the Hamiltonian are commutative to each other. Because of the commutativity, this model has a large number of conserved charges and is integrable. After the ensemble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-08 Ping Gao

In the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with generic order $q \ge 4$ random couplings, we compute the critical temperature relating the Majorana fermions high temperature perturbative vacuum to the vacuum where the replica diagonal collective field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-26 Sergio Caracciolo , Matteo A. Cardella , Mauro Pastore

We study the level statistics of a generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with two-body and one-body random interactions of finite range by exact diagonalization. Tuning the range of the one-body term, while keeping the two-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Antonio M. García-García , Masaki Tezuka

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

We investigate the replica problem for Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. First, we consider $n-$replicas of the non-supersymmetric SYK model, finding that this $n$-replica model is solvable only under specific conditions. We then introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-14 Xian-Hui Ge , Chenhao Zhang

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) explains how closed unitary quantum systems can exhibit thermal behavior in pure states. In this work we examine a recently proposed microscopic model of a black hole in AdS$_2$, the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma