27 June 2022 to 2 July 2022
University of Ioannina (GR)
Europe/Athens timezone

A toy model of holography: sparse SYK, wormholes, and chaos

2 Jul 2022, 11:30
30m
Main Auditorium (Conference Centre “Karolos Papoulias”)

Main Auditorium

Conference Centre “Karolos Papoulias”

Speaker

Elena Caceres (University of Texas at Austin (US))

Description

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model is a quantum mechanical model that is strongly interacting, chaotic and solvable. It is known to have a gravity dual and exhibit black hole
physics. Recently, a sparse version of SYK was proposed. These sparse SYK models can be obtained by randomly pruning the couplings of the all-to-all SYK or defined by random regular hypergraphs. The sparsity makes these models amenable to efficient computer simulations, making possible calculations out of reach in the all-to-all SYK. In this talk, I will review the sparse SYK and present results regarding two coupled sparse SYK systems –the holographic dual of a traversable wormhole– and the spectral form factor of the sparse SYK.

Authors

Mr Amir Raz (University of Texas at Austin) Dr Anderson Misobuchi (UNiversity of Texas at Austin) Elena Caceres (University of Texas at Austin (US))

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