Magic and Wormholes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

arXiv:2602.12339 · hep-th, cond-mat.str-el, gr-qc, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-02-12 · Read on arXiv

hep-th, cond-mat.str-el, gr-qc, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-02-12

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: 72 pages, 21 figures, updated based on JHEP feedback, comments welcome

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Terminology

• Majorana Fermions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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