Abstract

We consider multi-energy level distributions in the SYK model, and in particular, the role of global fluctuations in the density of states of the SYK model. The connected contributions to the moments of the density of states go to zero as N → ∞, however, they are much larger than the standard RMT correlations. We provide a diagrammatic description of the leading behavior of these connected moments, showing that the dominant diagrams are given by 1PI cactus graphs, and derive a vector model of the couplings which reproduces these results. We generalize these results to the first subleading corrections, and to fluctuations of correlation functions. In either case, the new set of correlations between traces (i.e. between boundaries) are not associated with, and are much larger than, the ones given by topological wormholes. The connected contributions that we discuss are the beginning of an infinite series of terms, associated with more and more information about the ensemble of couplings, which hints towards the dual of a single realization. In particular, we suggest that incorporating them in the gravity description requires the introduction of new, lighter and lighter, fields in the bulk with fluctuating boundary couplings.

Highlights

  • The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model [1,2,3] is a simple tractable model of quantum chaos and holography

  • We provide a diagrammatic description of the leading behavior of these connected moments, showing that the dominant diagrams are given by 1PI cactus graphs, and derive a vector model of the couplings which reproduces these results

  • In the double scaled limit p ∝ N, the model has a Schwarzian regime but it is related to a q-deformation of random matrix theory [15], and the full large N density of states is given by the q-Gaussian distribution [7, 10, 16, 17]

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Summary

Introduction

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model [1,2,3] is a simple tractable model of quantum chaos and holography. The precise RMT ensemble (GOE, GUE, or GSE) depends on the values N mod 8 and p mod 4, which give rise to different particle-hole symmetries, and have been completely classified in [9, 17,18,19,20,21] This level spacing statistics results in a universal RMT contribution to the spectral form factor which is dominant at exponentially late times [17]. Apart from these universal contributions, there are global fluctuations of the spectrum which are less suppressed in the large N limit [10, 17, 23]. We note that this problem can be mapped to the study of the cummulants of q-Brownian motion [15, 41]

Framework and main results
The outline of the paper
Multi-trace thermal partition function
Double trace expectation value
Multi-trace expectation values and cactus diagrams
General structure of 1PI cactus diagrams
Dominance of cactus diagrams
Partition functions and density of states correlations
Time scales and comparison to RMT fluctuations
Dual vector model
The vector model as a theory for the couplings
An example of non-Gaussian couplings
New fluctuation parameters
The odd moments of the double trace
Multi-trace correlators
More than two vertices of odd degree
The effective Hamiltonian of the h3 fluctuation
General fluctuation parameters
Fluctuation parameters and the dual of a single realization
The relation to geometric wormholes
Multi-trace operator correlations
Multi-trace 2-point functions
The associated vector model for operators
Multi-trace correlations from the replica path integral
Path integral in terms of G and Σ
Findings
Discussion

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