Spontaneous symmetry breaking in fermionic random matrix model

Abstract

A fermionic random matrix model, which is a 0-dimensional version of the SYK model with replicas, is considered. The replica-off-diagonal correlation functions vanish at finite N, but we show that they do not vanish in the large N limit due to spontaneous symmetry breaking. We use the Bogoliubov quasi-averages approach to studying phase transitions. The consideration may be relevant to the study of the problem of existence of the spin glass phase in fermionic models.