Correlation Functions and Chaotic Behavior of the SYK Chain Model in Pure States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01100v1
• Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:51:20 GMT
• Title: Correlation Functions and Chaotic Behavior of the SYK Chain Model in Pure States
• Authors: Seyyed M. H. Halataei,
• Abstract summary: I study thermalization and scrambling of information in individual energy eigenstates of the SYK chain using exact diagonalization.<n>Results suggest that the slow thermalization observed in entanglement dynamics does not extend to all probes of thermalization and scrambling, even in pure states.
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• Abstract: Recent investigations of R\'enyi entanglement entropy in the SYK chain of Majorana fermions have indicated that the model exhibits slow thermalization when initialized in certain states. The extent to which the heavy modes -- believed to underlie this behavior -- affect other aspects of the model remains an open question. In this work, I study thermalization and scrambling of information in individual energy eigenstates of the SYK chain using exact diagonalization. I show that two-point correlation functions in finite-energy eigenstates closely match their thermal counterparts and that information scrambling occurs efficiently within these pure states. These results suggest that the slow thermalization observed in entanglement dynamics does not extend to all probes of thermalization and scrambling, even in pure states. I discuss the implications of these findings for thermal states in a potential holographic dual theory.

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