2024-2022

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Review and pedagogical articles are marked with a §§§.

  1. Thermopower across Fermi-volume-changing quantum phase transitions without translational symmetry breaking, P. Lunts, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 111, 245151 (2025); arXiv:2412.15330; DOI.
  2. Thermal Hall response of an abelian chiral spin liquid at finite temperatures, A. Maity, Haoyu Guo, S. Sachdev, and V. Tripathi, Physical Review B 111, 205119 (2025); arXiv:2411.15304; DOI.
  3. §§§ Hydride superconductivity: here to stay, G. S. Boebinger, A. V. Chubukov, I. R. Fisher, F. M. Grosche, P. J. Hirschfeld, S. R. Julian, B. Keimer, S. A. Kivelson, A. P. Mackenzie, Yoshiteru Maeno, J. Orenstein, B. J. Ramshaw, S. Sachdev, J. Schmalian, and M. Vojta, Nature Reviews Physics 7, 2 (2025); arXiv:2411.10522; DOI.
  4. Quantum Annealing with chaotic driver Hamiltonians, H. Schlömer, and S. Sachdev, Annals of Physics 479, 170042 (2025); arXiv:2409.20538; DOI
  5. Correlation between unconventional superconductivity and strange metallicity revealed by operando superfluid density measurements, Ruozhou Zhang, Mingyang Qin, Chenyuan Li, Zhanyi Zhao, Zhongxu Wei, Juan Xu, Xingyu Jiang, Wenxin Cheng, Qiuyan Shi, Xuewei Wang, Jie Yuan, Yangmu Li, Qihong Chen, Tao Xiang, S. Sachdev, Zi-Xiang Li, Kui Jin, and Zhongxian Zhao, Science Advances 11, eadu0795 (2025); arXiv:2409.18515; DOI.
  6. Polaronic correlations from optimized ancilla wave functions for the Fermi-Hubbard model, T. Müller, R. Thomale, S. Sachdev, and Y. Iqbal, Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences 122, e2504261122 (2025); arXiv:2408.01492; DOI.
  7. §§§ Lectures on the quantum phase transitions of metals, S. Sachdev, lectures at Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2024, Quantum Matter Summer School, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, July 8-11, 2024 arXiv:2407.15919; DOI.
  8. Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable quantum simulator, T. Manovitz, S. H. Li, S. Ebadi, R. Samajdar, A. A. Geim, S. J. Evered, D. Bluvstein, H. Zhou, N. U. Köylüoğlu, J. Feldmeier, P. E. Dolgirev, N. Maskara, M. Kalinowski, S. Sachdev, D. A. Huse, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, M. D. Lukin, Nature 638, 86 (2025); arXiv:2407.03249; DOI.
  9. Vortex structure in a d-wave superconductor obtained by a confinement transition from the pseudogap metal, Jia-Xin Zhang and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 110, 235120 (2024); arXiv:2406.12964; DOI.
  10. Strange metal and superconductor in the two-dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, Chenyuan Li, D. Valentinis, A. A. Patel, Haoyu Guo, J. Schmalian, S. Sachdev, and I. Esterlis, Physical Review Letters 133, 186502 (2024) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:2406.07608; DOI.
  11. Replica symmetry breaking in spin glasses in the replica-free Keldysh formalism, J. Lang, S. Sachdev, and S. Diehl, SciPost Physics 17, 160 (2024); arXiv:2406.05842; DOI.
  12. Learning topological states from randomized measurements using variational tensor network tomography, Yanting Teng, R. Samajdar, K. Van Kirk, F. Wilde, S. Sachdev, J. Eisert, R. Sweke, K. Najaf, PRX Quantum 6, 040303 (2025); arXiv:2406.00193; DOI.
  13. Quantum oscillations in the hole-doped cuprates and the confinement of spinons, P. M. Bonetti, M. Christos and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2418633121 (2024); arXiv:2405.08817; DOI; Correction PNAS 122, e2510049122 (2025), .
  14. Ferrimagnetism of ultracold fermions in a multi-band Hubbard system, M. Lebrat, A. Kale, L. H. Kendrick, Muqing Xu, Youqi Gang, A. Nikolaenko, P. M. Bonetti, S. Sachdev, and M. Greiner, Science 392, 612 (2026); arXiv:2404.17555; DOI.
  15. Strong non-linear response of strange metals, S. Kryhin, S. Sachdev, and P. A. Volkov, Physical Review Letters 135, 016503 (2025); arXiv:2403.00062; DOI.
  16. §§§ Quantum spin glasses and Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, S. Sachdev, Rapporteur presentation at the 29th Solvay conference, The Structure and Dynamics of Disordered Systems, October 21, 2023, Brussels, arXiv:2402.17824; DOI.
  17. Deconfined quantum criticality of nodal d-wave superconductivity, Neel order, and charge order on the square lattice at half-filling, M. Christos, L. Shackleton, S. Sachdev, and Zhu-Xi Luo, Physical Review Research 6, 033018 (2024); arXiv:2402.09502; DOI.
  18. §§§ Quantum spin liquids and the phases of the cuprates, S. Sachdev, Coshare Science 02, 03 (2024) [Video review talk]; DOI.
  19. Magneto-Thermoelectric Transport in Graphene Quantum Dot with Strong Correlations, L. E. Anderson, A. Laitinen, A. Zimmerman, T. Werkmeister, L. Shackleton, A. Kruchkov, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, S. Sachdev, and Philip Kim, Physical Review Letters 132, 246502 (2024) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:2401.08050; DOI.
  20. Localization of overdamped bosonic modes and transport in strange metals, A. A. Patel, P. Lunts, and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, e2402052121 (2024); arXiv:2312.06751; DOI.
  21. §§§ Quantum statistical mechanics of the SYK model, charged black holes, and strange metals, S. Sachdev, Coshare Science 01, 04 (2023) [Video review talk]; DOI
  22. Sign-problem-free effective models of triangular lattice quantum antiferromagnets, L. Shackleton and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 111, 075101 (2025); arXiv:2311.01572; DOI.
  23. Conductance and thermopower fluctuations in interacting quantum dots, L. Shackleton, L. E. Anderson, Philip Kim, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 109, 235109 (2024); arXiv:2309.05741; DOI.
  24. Equilibrium dynamics of infinite-range quantum spin glasses in a field, M. Tikhanovskaya, S. Sachdev, and R. Samajdar, PRX Quantum 5, 020313 (2024); arXiv:2309.03255; DOI.
  25. Connecting the many-body Chern number to Luttinger's theorem through Streda's formula, L. Peralta Gavinsky, S. Sachdev, and N. Goldman, Physical Review Letters 131, 236601 (2023) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:2309.02483; DOI.
  26. Emergence of nodal Bogoliubov quasiparticles across the transition from the pseudogap metal to the d-wave superconductor, M. Christos and S. Sachdev, npj Quantum Materials 9, 4 (2024); arXiv:2308.03835; DOI.
  27. Cyclotron resonance and quantum oscillations of critical Fermi surfaces, Haoyu Guo, D. Valentinis, J. Schmalian, S. Sachdev, and A. A. Patel, Physical Review B 109, 075162 (2024); arXiv:2308.01956; DOI.
  28. Disordered quantum critical fixed points from holography, Xiaoyang Huang, S. Sachdev, and A. Lucas, Physical Review Letters 131, 141601 (2023); arXiv:2306.03130; DOI.
  29. Theory of shot noise in strange metals, A. Nikolaenko, S. Sachdev, and A. A. Patel, Physical Review Research 5, 043143 (2023); arXiv:2305.02336; DOI.
  30. §§§ Strange Metals and Black Holes: Insights From the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model, S. Sachdev, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Physics, December 2023; arXiv:2305.01001; DOI.
  31. §§§ Quantum statistical mechanics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and charged black holes, S. Sachdev, chapter in 50 years of the renormalization group, dedicated to the memory of Michael E. Fisher, edited by Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, David Huse, and Leo Radzihovsky, World Scientific (2024), DOI; International Journal of Modern Physics B 38, 2430003 (2024); arXiv:2304.13744; DOI.
  32. Nodal band-off-diagonal superconductivity in twisted graphene superlattices, M. Christos, S. Sachdev, and M. S. Scheurer, Nature Communications 14, 7134 (2023); arXiv:2303.17529; DOI.
  33. A model of d-wave superconductivity, antiferromagnetism, and charge order on the square lattice, M. Christos, Zhu-Xi Luo, L. Shackleton, Ya-Hui Zhang, M. S. Scheurer, and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2302701120 (2023); arXiv:2302.07885; DOI; Correction 122, e2510054122 (2025), DOI.
  34. Emergent glassy behavior in a kagome Rydberg atom array, Zheng Yan, Yan-Cheng Wang, R. Samajdar, S. Sachdev, and Zi Yang Meng, Physical Review Letters 130, 206501 (2023); arXiv:2301.07127; DOI.
  35. Clustering neural quantum states via diffusion maps, Yanting Teng, S. Sachdev, and M. S. Scheurer, Physical Review B 108, 205152 (2023); arXiv:2301.02683; DOI.
  36. Spin density wave, Fermi liquid, and fractionalized phases in a theory of antiferromagnetic metals using paramagnons and bosonic spinons, A. Nikolaenko, J. v. Milczewski, D. G. Joshi, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 108, 045123 (2023); arXiv:2211.10452; DOI.
  37. Superconductivity of non-Fermi liquids described by Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, Chenyuan Li, S. Sachdev, and D. G. Joshi, Physical Review Research 5, 013045 (2023); arXiv:2208.05493; DOI.
  38. Engineering SYK interactions in disordered graphene flakes under realistic experimental conditions, M. Brzezinska, Yifei Guan, O. V. Yazyev, S. Sachdev, and A. Kruchkov, Physical Review Letters 131, 036503 (2023); arXiv:2208.01032; DOI.
  39. Large N theory of critical Fermi surfaces II: conductivity, Haoyu Guo, A. A. Patel, I. Esterlis, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 106, 115151 (2022); arXiv:2207.08841; DOI.
  40. Hidden orders and phase transitions for the fully packed quantum loop model on the triangular lattice, Zheng Yan, Xiaoxue Ran, Yan-Cheng Wang, R. Samajdar, Junchen Rong, S. Sachdev, Yang Qi, and Zi Yang Meng, Communications Physics 7, 207 (2024); arXiv:2205.04472; DOI.
  41. §§§ Statistical mechanics of strange metals and black holes, S. Sachdev, ICTS News, volume 8, issue 1 (2022); arXiv:2205.02285; DOI.
  42. Emergent Z2 gauge theories and topological excitations in Rydberg atom arrays, R. Samajdar, D. G. Joshi, Yanting Teng, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review Letters 130, 043601 (2023); arXiv:2204.00632; DOI.
  43. Critical metallic phase in the overdoped random t-J model, M. Christos, D. G. Joshi, S. Sachdev, and M. Tikhanovskaya, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2206921119 (2022); arXiv:2203.16548; DOI.
  44. Universal theory of strange metals from spatially random interactions, A. A. Patel, Haoyu Guo, I. Esterlis, and S. Sachdev, Science 381, 790 (2023); arXiv:2203.04990; DOI. Summary poster; Simons Foundation News; Physics Magazine; Physics World.
  45. Anisotropic deconfined criticality in Dirac spin liquids, L. Shackleton and S. Sachdev, Journal of High Energy Physics 07 (2022) 141; arXiv:2203.01962; DOI.
  46. Triangular lattice quantum dimer model with variable dimer density, Zheng Yan, R. Samajdar, Yan-Cheng Wang, S. Sachdev, and Zi Yang Meng, Nature Communications 13, 5799 (2022); arXiv:2202.11100; DOI.
  47. Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set using Rydberg Atom Arrays, S. Ebadi, A. Keesling, M. Cain, Tout T. Wang, H. Levine, D. Bluvstein, G. Semeghini, A. Omran, Jinguo Liu, R. Samajdar, Xiu-Zhe Luo, B. Nash, Xun Gao, B. Barak, E. Farhi, S. Sachdev, N. Gemelke, Leo Zhou, Soonwon Choi, H. Pichler, Shengtao Wang, M. Greiner, V. Vuletić, and M. D. Lukin, Science 376, 1209 (2022); arXiv:2202.09372; DOI.
  48. Maximal quantum chaos of the critical Fermi surface, M. Tikhanovskaya, S. Sachdev, and A. A. Patel, Physical Review Letters 129, 060601 (2022); arXiv:2202.01845; DOI.
  49. Resonant thermal Hall effect of phonons coupled to dynamical defects, Haoyu Guo, D. G. Joshi, and S. Sachdev, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2215141119 (2022); arXiv:2201.11681; DOI.