The chiral SYK model in three-dimensional holography

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Main Authors: Altland, Alexander, Bagrets, Dmitry, Callebaut, Nele, Weisenberger, Konstantin
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Published: 2025
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author Altland, Alexander
Bagrets, Dmitry
Callebaut, Nele
Weisenberger, Konstantin
author_facet Altland, Alexander
Bagrets, Dmitry
Callebaut, Nele
Weisenberger, Konstantin
contents A celebrated realization of the holographic principle posits an approximate duality between the $(0+1)$-dimensional quantum mechanical SYK model and two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, mediated by the Schwarzian action as an effective low energy theory common to both systems. We here propose a generalization of this correspondence to one dimension higher. Starting from different microscopic realizations of effectively chiral $(1+1)$-dimensional generalizations of the SYK model, we derive a reduction to the Alekseev-Shatashvilli (AS)-action, a minimal extension of the Schwarzian action which has been proposed as the effective boundary action of three-dimensional gravity. In the bulk, we show how the same action describes fluctuations around the Euclidean BTZ black hole configuration, the dominant stationary solution of three-dimensional gravity. These two constructions allow us to match bulk and boundary coupling constants, and to compute observables. Specifically, we apply semiclassical techniques inspired by condensed matter physics to the computation of out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), demonstrating maximal chaos in the chiral SYK chain and its gravity dual.
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spellingShingle The chiral SYK model in three-dimensional holography
Altland, Alexander
Bagrets, Dmitry
Callebaut, Nele
Weisenberger, Konstantin
High Energy Physics - Theory
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Strongly Correlated Electrons
A celebrated realization of the holographic principle posits an approximate duality between the $(0+1)$-dimensional quantum mechanical SYK model and two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, mediated by the Schwarzian action as an effective low energy theory common to both systems. We here propose a generalization of this correspondence to one dimension higher. Starting from different microscopic realizations of effectively chiral $(1+1)$-dimensional generalizations of the SYK model, we derive a reduction to the Alekseev-Shatashvilli (AS)-action, a minimal extension of the Schwarzian action which has been proposed as the effective boundary action of three-dimensional gravity. In the bulk, we show how the same action describes fluctuations around the Euclidean BTZ black hole configuration, the dominant stationary solution of three-dimensional gravity. These two constructions allow us to match bulk and boundary coupling constants, and to compute observables. Specifically, we apply semiclassical techniques inspired by condensed matter physics to the computation of out-of-time-order correlation functions (OTOCs), demonstrating maximal chaos in the chiral SYK chain and its gravity dual.
title The chiral SYK model in three-dimensional holography
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19370