A bstract In quantum field theories that admit gravity dual, specific inequalities involving entanglement entropy between arbitrary disjoint spatial regions hold. An example is the negativity of tripartite information. Inspired by this, we investigate the analogous entropy inequalities in Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) and sparse SYK models, which involve the entanglement among different flavors of Majorana fermions rather than spatial entanglement. Sparse SYK models are models where some of the SYK couplings are set to zero. Since these models have been argued to admit gravity duals up to a certain sparseness, it is interesting to see whether the multipartite entanglement structure changes in a sparseness-dependent manner. In the parameter space explored by our numerical analysis, which we performed upto five parties, we find that all entropy inequalities are satisfied for any temperature and degree of sparseness for an arbitrary choice of flavor subregions. In addition, if we plot the multipartite entanglement entropy in terms of purity, the only significant effect of sparseness is to change the range of purity. Thus, we conclude that multipartite information is almost unaffected by sparseness. As a counterexample, we also show that in a vector model of N -flavored Majorana fermions which contains no random variables, choices of subregions exist for which the entropy inequalities are violated.
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, N Majorana fermions with q body (q>2) infinite-range interactions. We calculate certain out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) for N≤64 fermions for a highly sparse SYK model and find no significant dependence of the Lyapunov exponent on sparsity up to near the percolation limit where the Hamiltonian breaks up into blocks. This provides strong support to the saturation of the Lyapunov exponent in the low-temperature limit of the sparse SYK. A key ingredient to reaching N=64 is the development of a novel quantum spin model simulation library that implements highly optimized matrix-free Krylov subspace methods on graphical processing units. This leads to a significantly lower simulation time as well as vastly reduced memory usage over previous approaches, while using modest computational resources. Strong sparsity-driven statistical fluctuations require both the use of a much larger number of disorder realizations with respect to the dense limit and a careful finite size scaling analysis. The saturation of the bound in the sparse SYK points to the existence of a gravity analog that would enlarge substantially the number of field theories with this feature.
We study a sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with
N Majoranas where only $\ensuremath{\sim}kN$ independent matrix elements are nonzero. We identify a minimum $k\ensuremath{\gtrsim}1$ for quantum chaos to occur by a level statistics analysis. The spectral density in this region, and for a larger
k, is still given by the Schwarzian prediction of the dense SYK model, though with renormalized parameters. Similar results are obtained for a beyond linear scaling with
N of the number of nonzero matrix elements. This is a strong indication that this is the minimum connectivity for the sparse SYK model to still have a quantum gravity dual. We also find an intriguing exact relation between the leading correction to moments of the spectral density due to sparsity and the leading
1/d correction of Parisi's U(1) lattice gauge theory in a
d-dimensional hypercube. In the $k\ensuremath{\rightarrow}1$ limit, different disorder realizations of the sparse SYK model show emergent random matrix statistics that for fixed
N can be in any universality class of the tenfold way. The agreement with random matrix statistics is restricted to short-range correlations, no more than a few level spacings, in particular in the tail of the spectrum. In addition, emergent discrete global symmetries in most of the disorder realizations for
k slightly below one give rise to
2m-fold degenerate spectra, with
m being a positive integer. For
k=3/4, we observe a large number of such emergent global symmetries with a maximum
28-fold degenerate spectra for
N=26.
A bstract The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a system of N Majorana fermions with random interactions and strongly chaotic dynamics, which at low energy admits a holographically dual description as two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Hence the SYK model provides a toy model of quantum gravity that might be feasible to simulate with near-term quantum hardware. Motivated by the goal of reducing the resources needed for such a simulation, we study a sparsified version of the SYK model, in which interaction terms are deleted with probability 1 −p . Specifically, we compute numerically the spectral form factor (SFF, the Fourier transform of the Hamiltonian’s eigenvalue pair correlation function) and the nearest-neighbor eigenvalue gap ratio r (characterizing the distribution of gaps between consecutive eigenvalues). We find that when p is greater than a transition value p 1 , which scales as 1/ N 3 , both the SFF and r match the values attained by the full unsparsified model and with expectations from random matrix theory (RMT). But for p < p 1 , deviations from unsparsified SYK and RMT occur, indicating a breakdown of holography in the highly sparsified regime. Below an even smaller value p 2 , which also scales as 1/ N 3 , even the spacing of consecutive eigenvalues differs from RMT values, signaling a complete breakdown of spectral rigidity. Our results cast doubt on the holographic interpretation of very highly sparsified SYK models obtained via machine learning using teleportation infidelity as a loss function.
We introduce generalization of the recently proposed \textit{Latent Entropy} (L-entropy) \cite{Basak:2024uwc} as a refined measure of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) in pure states of
n-party quantum systems. Generalized L-entropy provides a natural ordering among
k-uniform states, maximising for absolutely maximally entangled states (AME), effectively capturing the hierarchical structure of multipartite entanglement. We analyze the behavior of this measure for
n-party Haar-random states and demonstrate that, in the large local-dimension limit, the maximal L-entropy saturates its upper bound for odd
n, while for even
n it approaches the bound asymptotically. Furthermore, we apply this framework to examine multipartite entanglement properties of quantum states in several variants of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, including SYK
4, SYK
2, mass-deformed SYK, sparse SYK, and
N=2 supersymmetric SYK model. The results demonstrate that the generalized L-entropy serves as a sensitive probe of multipartite entanglement, revealing how deformations influence quantum entanglement structure in such strongly interacting systems.
In this paper, I study the entanglement entropy in Hartle-Hawking states of JT gravity set up by a Euclidean path integral with an operator inserted somewhere along the Euclidean boundary. I show that the entanglement entropy between the dual SYK models can be written to leading order in
1/GN in a way that resembles a formula for entanglement entropy in a compact lattice gauge theory, but where the link that we appear to compute the entanglement across depends on where we put the operator along the Euclidean boundary. I then describe a toy model where we can write down an explicit family of density matrices whose von Neumann entropies exhibit such a phase transition as we tune an interpolating parameter. This behavior relies on a certain superselection sector structure and I comment on the possibility that the gravitational result comes from a similar emergent superselection sector structure in SYK/JT holography. The main implication is that each copy of the SYK model should then contain Hilbert space sectors labeled by multiple
SL(2,R) representations whose entanglement gives rise to space.
Entanglement is one of the most important concepts in quantum physics. We review recent progress in understanding the quantum entanglement in many-body systems using large- N solvable models: the Sachdev—Ye—Kitaev (SYK) model and its generalizations. We present the study of entanglement entropy in the original SYK model using three different approaches: the exact diagonalization, the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and the path-integral representation. For coupled SYK models, the entanglement entropy shows linear growth and saturation at the thermal value. The saturation is related to replica wormholes in gravity. Finally, we consider the steady-state entanglement entropy of quantum many-body systems under repeated measurements. The traditional symmetry breaking in the enlarged replica space leads to the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition.