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Local law and delocalization for the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

Aug 2026 · 1 citation · ⚡ 1 influential · 33 references
Mathematics Physics

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We establish a mesoscopic local law and quantitative eigenvector-delocalization estimates for the Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev model (SYK) Hamiltonian of $N$ interacting Majorana fermions subject to a $q$-body interaction. For even $q\ll N^{\frac{1}{2}}$, we prove that the normalized Stieltjes transform is approximated, uniformly on bounded energy intervals, by an explicit deterministic profile which we construct as an asymptotic expansion in the proportion $\alpha_{N,q}$ of anticommuting $q$-body interaction terms. The result holds both on the full Hilbert space and in each fermion-parity sector. We derive mesoscopic eigenvalue counting and spectral form factor estimates. For fixed $q$, we further obtain high-probability $\ell^\infty$-delocalization bounds in any deterministic orthonormal basis for individual bulk eigenvectors. These are the first mesoscopic laws and eigenvector delocalization estimates for the SYK Hamiltonian, which we obtain using the resolvent method.

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