Role of exceptional points in the dynamics of the Lindblad Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15793v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:15:52 GMT
• Title: Role of exceptional points in the dynamics of the Lindblad Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
• Authors: Jie-ping Zheng, Jorge Dukelsky, Rafael A. Molina, Antonio M. García-García,
• Abstract summary: The decay rate towards the steady state is a non-monotonic function of the bath coupling $mu$, and an analogue of the Loschmidt echo for dissipative quantum systems undergoes a first order dynamical phase transitions.<n>We provide evidence that these features have their origin in the presence of exceptional points in the purely real eigenvalues of the SYK Liouvillian closest to the zero eigenvalue associated with the steady state.<n>We expect these features to be generic in the approach to equilibrium in quantum strongly interacting many-body Liouvillians.
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• Abstract: The out of equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (SYK), comprising $N$ Majoranas with random all-to-all four-body interactions, minimally coupled to a Markovian bath modeled by the Lindblad formalism, displays intriguing nontrivial features. In particular, the decay rate towards the steady state is a non-monotonic function of the bath coupling $\mu$, and an analogue of the Loschmidt echo for dissipative quantum systems undergoes a first order dynamical phase transitions that eventually becomes a crossover for sufficiently large $\mu$. We provide evidence that these features have their origin in the presence of exceptional points in the purely real eigenvalues of the SYK Liouvillian closest to the zero eigenvalue associated with the steady state. An analytic calculation at small $N$, supported by numerical results for larger $N$, reveals that the value of $\mu \sim 0.1$ at which the exceptional point corresponding to the longest living modes occurs is close to a local maximum of the decay rate. This value marks the start of a region of anomalous equilibration where the relaxation rate diminishes as the coupling to the bath becomes stronger. Moreover, the mentioned change from transition to crossover in the Loschmidt echo occurs at a larger $\mu \sim 0.3$ corresponding with a proliferation of exceptional points in the low energy limit of the Liouvillian spectrum. We expect these features to be generic in the approach to equilibrium in quantum strongly interacting many-body Liouvillians.

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