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Instability of the non-Fermi-liquid state of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

Zhen Bi
Chao-Ming Jian
Yi-Zhuang You
Kelly Pawlak
Cenke Xu

Abstract

We study a series of perturbations on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We show that the maximal chaotic non-Fermi-liquid phase described by the ordinary q=4 SYK model has marginally relevant or irrelevant (depending on the sign of the coupling constants) four-fermion perturbations allowed by symmetry. Changing the sign of one of these four-fermion perturbations leads to a continuous chaotic-nonchaotic quantum phase transition of the system accompanied by a spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking. Starting with the SYKq model with a q-fermion interaction, similar perturbations can lead to a series of new fixed points with continuously varying exponents. © 2017 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review B

Volume

95

Issue

20

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019884362&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevB.95.205105&partnerID=40&md5=29f7263385bdddd76896c2597ce5164e

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.95.205105

Group (Lab)

Chao-Ming Jian Group

Funding Source

DMR-1151208
1151208

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