Spread of entanglement in a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)120zbMATH Open1382.81181arXiv1708.00871OpenAlexW3105147574WikidataQ112153866 ScholiaQ112153866MaRDI QIDQ1705992FDOQ1705992


Authors: Yingfei Gu, Andrew Lucas, Xiao-Liang Qi Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the spread of R'enyi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a one-dimensional lattice of Majorana fermions, with spatially local random quartic interaction. We find that for integer R'enyi index n>1, the R'enyi entanglement entropy saturates at a parametrically smaller value than expected. This implies that the TFD state of the SYK chain does not rapidly thermalize, despite being maximally chaotic: instead, it rapidly approaches a prethermal state. We compare our results to the signatures of thermalization observed in other quenches in the SYK model, and to intuition from nearly-mathrmAdS2 gravity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00871




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