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A Generalization of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev

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The SYK model: fermions with a $q$-body, Gaussian-random, all-to-all interaction, is the first of a fascinating new class of solvable large $N$ models. We generalize SYK to include $f$ flavors of fermions, each occupying $N_a$ sites and appearing with a $q_a$ order in the interaction. Like SYK, this entire class of models generically has an infrared fixed point. We compute the infrared dimensions of the fermions, and the spectrum of singlet bilinear operators. We show that there is always a dimension-two operator in the spectrum, which implies that, like in SYK, there is breaking of conformal invariance and maximal chaos in the infrared four-point function of the generalized model. After a disorder average, the generalized model has a global $O(N_1) \times O(N_2) \times \ldots\times O(N_f)$ symmetry: a subgroup of the $O(N)$ symmetry of SYK; thereby giving a richer spectrum. We also elucidate aspects of the large $q$ limit and the OPE, and solve $q=2$ SYK at finite $N$.

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Information scrambling in all-to-all interacting models

quant-ph · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Numerical study of the SYK-q spin model finds rapid entanglement growth to Haar-random saturation, a universal Rényi-1/2 mutual information vs negativity relation at minimal q, and Page-curve behavior in negativity under unequal partitions.

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  • Notes on Tensor Models and Tensor Field Theories hep-th · 2019-07-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 68 · internal anchor

    Lecture notes introducing the 1/N expansion and melonic limit of tensor models, which yield new conformal field theories.