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- [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@SachdevSYK) with public lectures, colloquia, courses, lectures at advanced schools, and seminars.
- [*632nm Podcast:*](https://www.youtube.com/@632nmPodcast)   
    **Superconductors, Black Holes, and Quantum Matter | Subir Sachdev on the SYK Model** \[[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3mn4tsjo9c)\]
- [5 selected Papers with Commentaries](/top-5)
- [20 selected Papers with Commentaries](/top-20)
- *Public lecture:*   
    **100 years of many-particle quantum mechanics: from Bose and Fermi to quantum materials and black holes (with 2 spooky dreams)** \[[PDF](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17498091); [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1LH_VysA08)\]  
    ([ICTP-SAIFR](https://www.ictp-saifr.org) distinguished public lecture, IFT-UNESP, Sao Paolo, Brazil , *October 31, 2025*)
- *Colloquium:*  
    **Many-fermion quantum entanglement in strange metals and in black holes** \[[PDF](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19716396); [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLxcNknisA)\]  
    ([Rutgers University](https://physics.rutgers.edu/events/events-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2026/04/22/8687/-/many-fermion-quantum-entanglement-in-the-high-temperature-superconductors-and-in-black-holes), New Brunswick, April 22, 2026)
- *For physics students:*
    - TIFR/IAS course on [**The Quantum Phases of Matter**](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcD25rnTeV9jR-WfmVE1HEtesXU9MMHrw) in Fall 2021.
    - **Critical quantum liquids and the cuprate high temperature superconductors** \[[PDF](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16421313); [Videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcD25rnTeV9i2c4s3C9I8RQjy9Js_mY-h)\]  
        (4 lectures at the [Boulder School 2025: Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electrons](https://boulderschool.yale.edu/2025/boulder-school-2025), University of Colorado, July 14-18, 2025)
    - **Planckian dynamics** \[[PDF](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17526808); [Videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcD25rnTeV9jx82dKmlfol6zElrVNJquD)\]  
        ([School on Emergent Phenomena in Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems](https://www.ictp-saifr.org/neq2025/) , ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil, November 3,4 2025)
- Sign up for the [Quantum matter mailing list](https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/quantum-matter).
- Pictures at the Solvay Conference on Physics, Brussels: [1911](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1911_Solvay_conference.jpg), [2008](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16742382), [2011](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16742437), [2023](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16742469).



 

 

[Quantum Phases of Matter](https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Phases-Matter-Subir-Sachdev/dp/1009212699/), published by Cambridge University Press;   
[PROSE (PROfessional and Scholarly Excellence) Award Winner](https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/the-aaps-prose-awards-2024-category-winners/) (2024) in the category of chemistry, physics, astronomy and cosmology---awarded by the Association of American Publishers.



 



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[Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models and Beyond: A Window into Non-Fermi Liquids](https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.94.035004),  
D. Chowdhury, A. Georges, O. Parcollet, and S. Sachdev, [Reviews of Modern Physics **94**, 035004 (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.94.035004); [arXiv:2109.05037](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05037)



 



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[Holographic Quantum Matter](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/holographic-quantum-matter), with Sean Hartnoll and Andrew Lucas, published by MIT Press; [Review in Physics Today](https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4187)



 



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Second edition of [Quantum Phase Transitions](http://140.247.122.253/qptweb/toc.html), published by Cambridge University Press



 



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