Delayed Thermalization in Mass-Deformed SYK

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We study the thermalizing properties of the mass-deformed SYK model, in a regime of parameters where the eigenstates are ergodically extended over just portions of the full Fock space, as an all-to-all toy model of many-body localization.

• Our numerical results strongly support the hypothesis that, although considerably delayed, thermalization is still present in this regime.
• Our results add to recent studies indicating that many-body localization should be interpreted as a strict Fock-space localization.