Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and beyond: Window into non-Fermi liquids

D Chowdhury, A Georges, O Parcollet… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
This is a review of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model of compressible quantum many-
body systems without quasiparticle excitations, and its connections to various theoretical …

Universal theory of strange metals from spatially random interactions

AA Patel, H Guo, I Esterlis, S Sachdev - Science, 2023 - science.org
Strange metals—ubiquitous in correlated quantum materials—transport electrical charge at
low temperatures but not by the individual electronic quasiparticle excitations, which carry …

Strange metals and black holes: insights from the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

S Sachdev - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01001, 2023 - arxiv.org
Complex many-particle quantum entanglement is a central theme in two distinct major topics
in physics: the strange metal state found in numerous correlated electron compounds, and …

Strange metal and superconductor in the two-dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

C Li, D Valentinis, AA Patel, H Guo, J Schmalian… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The two-dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (2D-YSYK) model provides a universal
theory of quantum phase transitions in metals in the presence of quenched random spatial …

Phases of = 2 Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models

M Heydeman, GJ Turiaci, W Zhao - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models with
com-plex fermions at non-zero background charge. Motivated by multi-charge …

Tunable non-Fermi liquid phase from coupling to two-level systems

N Bashan, E Tulipman, J Schmalian, E Berg - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We study a controlled large-N theory of electrons coupled to dynamical two-level systems
(TLSs) via spatially random interactions. Such a physical situation arises when electrons …

Dirac fast scramblers

J Kim, E Altman, X Cao - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We introduce a family of Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models with a large number of fermion and
boson flavors as higher dimensional generalizations of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. The …

Circular string in a black p-brane leading to chaos

P Dutta, KL Panigrahi, B Singh - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We consider a pulsating string near a non-extremal black p-brane (p= 5 and p= 6)
and investigate the chaos in the corresponding string dynamics by examining the Fast …

Solvable theory of a strange metal at the breakdown of a heavy Fermi liquid

EE Aldape, T Cookmeyer, AA Patel, E Altman - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We introduce an effective theory for quantum critical points (QCPs) in heavy-fermion
systems, involving a change in carrier density without symmetry breaking. Our theory …

Near-AdS2 spectroscopy: classifying the spectrum of operators and interactions in N= 2 4D supergravity

A Castro, E Verheijden - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
We describe holographic properties of near-AdS 2 spacetimes that arise within spherically
symmetric configurations of N= 2 4D U (1) 4 supergravity for both gauged and ungauged …