A Study of the SYK${}_2$ Model with Twisted Boundary Conditions

Jeff Murugan, Ruach Pillay Slayen, Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

We study a version of the 2-body Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK${}_2$) model whose complex fermions exhibit twisted boundary conditions on the thermal circle. As we show, this is physicall…