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L\'evy Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Quantum Physics 2025-06-06 v1 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We explore the spectral properties of the 44-fermion Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with interaction sourced from a L\'evy Stable (fat-tailed) distribution. L\'evy random matrices are known to demonstrate non-ergodic behaviour through the emergence of a mobility edge. We study the eigenvalue distribution, focusing on long- and short-range correlations and extreme statistics. This model demonstrates a crossover from chaotic to integrable behaviour (in the spectral correlations) as the distribution becomes increasingly fat-tailed. We investigate this crossover through a hierarchical analysis of the eigenvalue spectrum, based on the multi-fractal hierarchy of the L\'evy Stable distribution. The crossover is explained in terms of a genuine many-body effect, distinct from the transition (controlled by a mobility edge) in the L\'evy random matrices. We conclude with comments on the model's solvability and discussion of possible models with exact transitions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2506.04343,
  title  = {L\'evy Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model},
  author = {Budhaditya Bhattacharjee and William E. Salazar and Dario Rosa and Alexei Andreanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04343},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages, 15 Figures including Supplementary material

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