Dashboard Core — Wormhole (Traversable-Wormhole Teleportation)

Traversable-wormhole-inspired quantum teleportation (Gao-Jafferis-Wall theory), via a binary sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model — the real protocol backing Composer's "traversable-wormhole-inspired teleportation" panel and the MCP server's wormhole tools. Built on dense_evolution.fermions (majorana_pauli_terms) and dense_evolution.entropy (mutual_information), the protocol's actual readout quantity.

wormhole

Traversable-wormhole-inspired quantum teleportation (Gao-Jafferis-Wall theory), via a binary sparse Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model -- the real protocol from arXiv:2604.10090 ("Quantum simulation of traversable-wormhole-inspired quantum teleportation in a chaotic binary sparse SYK model", 2026), a real hardware reproduction this module mirrors as an exact/Trotterized simulation.

Ported from research/wormhole_syk.py once the reproduction was verified end to end (see that file's git history and research/wormhole_syk.md for the full derivation, the no-signaling-theorem explanation of why an earlier decorative "Traversable Wormhole (BGQ)" circuit could never have worked, and every verification step: Majorana anticommutation, SYK Hermiticity, Bell-pair/GHZ mutual information, the paper's own instance-selection criterion, Trotter-vs-exact convergence). The generic building blocks (Majorana JW mapping, partial trace / entropy / mutual information, Trotterized gate-circuit evolution) live in the dense_evolution package proper (dense_evolution.fermions, .entropy, .trotter); only what's genuinely SYK/wormhole-specific -- the sparse Hamiltonian construction, the paper's commuting-pair selection criterion, and the two-sided teleportation protocol itself -- lives here.

Three evolution backends, all real gate circuits or exact matrix math run through dense_evolution.DenseSVSimulator (never Qiskit, never a mock): run_wormhole_protocol evolves via exact matrix exponentiation (eigendecomposition-based, cheap and exact -- the paper's own hardware run is validated against exactly this kind of baseline); run_wormhole_protocol_trotter evolves via a real Trotterized gate circuit (dense_evolution.trotter_evolve_ops), closer to what actual hardware executes -- verified in research/wormhole_syk.py to reproduce the exact backend's result closely at the known signal peak (seed 61, t0=0.3, t1=0.60: I(mu=+12)=0.01301 vs exact 0.01326, I(mu=-12)=0.01821 vs exact 0.01793); run_wormhole_protocol_finite_beta is run_wormhole_protocol but with the real finite-temperature thermofield double the paper actually uses (Eq. S8, beta=3 -- Section S2: "we consider J=sqrt(2), q=4, and beta=3") instead of the other two backends' beta=0 simplification (plain L_i-R_i Bell pairs, the infinite-temperature limit). beta=0 recovers the other backends' initial state exactly (exp(0)=identity, verified in tests/integration/test_wormhole.py) -- the finite-beta path is a strict generalization, not a different protocol.

Central, honest finding carried over from the research reproduction: the sign-dependent teleportation signal (mutual information between a reference qubit P and a qubit read out from the R register, higher for one coupling sign than the other) is real but realization-dependent -- a uniformly-random draw of which SYK terms to keep does not reliably show it. select_good_instance reproduces the paper's own fix: screen many candidate seeds by their exact commuting/anticommuting term-pair count and keep the one closest to the paper's own ratio (34 commuting / 11 anticommuting among 45 pairs, for their K=10 instance), rather than trusting an arbitrary seed. For N=8 Majorana/side, seed 61 is an exact match and gives the cleanest signal found (see research/wormhole_syk.md).

build_sparse_syk_terms

build_sparse_syk_terms(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)

K of the C(n_majorana,4) four-Majorana products chi_ichi_jchi_k*chi_l (i<j<k<l), each coefficient +-J/sqrt(k_terms) with a random sign -- the paper's K=10, J=sqrt(2) definition for N=8. The bare product of 4 Majoranas is already Hermitian (reversing 4 anticommuting factors takes C(4,2)=6 transpositions, (-1)^6=+1 -- no extra i factor needed). Returns (n_qubits, terms) where terms is ready for dense_evolution.pauli_hamiltonian_to_matrix.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def build_sparse_syk_terms(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed):
    """K of the C(n_majorana,4) four-Majorana products chi_i*chi_j*chi_k*chi_l
    (i<j<k<l), each coefficient +-J/sqrt(k_terms) with a random sign --
    the paper's K=10, J=sqrt(2) definition for N=8. The bare product of
    4 Majoranas is already Hermitian (reversing 4 anticommuting factors
    takes C(4,2)=6 transpositions, (-1)^6=+1 -- no extra i factor needed).
    Returns (n_qubits, terms) where terms is ready for
    dense_evolution.pauli_hamiltonian_to_matrix.
    """
    n_qubits = n_majorana // 2
    all_quads = list(itertools.combinations(range(1, n_majorana + 1), 4))
    rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
    chosen = rng.choice(len(all_quads), size=k_terms, replace=False)
    coupling = J / np.sqrt(k_terms)
    terms = []
    for idx in chosen:
        quad = all_quads[idx]
        sign = rng.choice([-1.0, 1.0])
        dicts = [majorana_pauli_terms(m, n_qubits)[1] for m in quad]
        phase, merged = _multiply_pauli_dicts(dicts)
        terms.append((sign * coupling * phase, merged))
    return n_qubits, terms

commuting_pair_count

commuting_pair_count(terms, n_qubits)

Exact commuting/anticommuting pair count among a set of terms (each term's operator, ignoring its coefficient) -- the paper's own instance-selection diagnostic (their chosen K=10 instance: 34 commuting / 11 anticommuting, out of C(10,2)=45 pairs).

Two Pauli strings commute iff they disagree (both non-identity, with different single-qubit Pauli operators) on an EVEN number of qubits -- each such disagreement contributes one anticommuting single-qubit factor when reordering the tensor product, and an even count of sign flips cancels out. Counting per-qubit disagreements between the two (qubit -> 'X'/'Y'/'Z') dicts is O(n_qubits) per pair, unlike the previous implementation, which built a dense 2n_qubits x 2n_qubits matrix per term and computed a real matrix commutator per pair -- O(2**n_qubits) per term plus a matmul per pair, useless work at every size (n_qubits here is exact, not approximate) and prohibitively slow at larger n_qubits: measured 14.2s for a single n_qubits=10 call (n_majorana=20) vs. <1ms for this version, a ~14,000,000x speedup, with 0 mismatches verified against the old dense-matrix implementation across 200 real SYK instances at n_majorana=8 and exact matches at n_majorana=12/16/20 too. n_qubits is unused here (kept in the signature for API compatibility -- every other caller passes it) since the dict-based check needs only the terms' own qubit indices, not the full Hilbert space dimension.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def commuting_pair_count(terms, n_qubits):
    """Exact commuting/anticommuting pair count among a set of terms
    (each term's operator, ignoring its coefficient) -- the paper's own
    instance-selection diagnostic (their chosen K=10 instance: 34
    commuting / 11 anticommuting, out of C(10,2)=45 pairs).

    Two Pauli strings commute iff they disagree (both non-identity, with
    different single-qubit Pauli operators) on an EVEN number of qubits
    -- each such disagreement contributes one anticommuting single-qubit
    factor when reordering the tensor product, and an even count of
    sign flips cancels out. Counting per-qubit disagreements between the
    two (qubit -> 'X'/'Y'/'Z') dicts is O(n_qubits) per pair, unlike the
    previous implementation, which built a dense 2**n_qubits x
    2**n_qubits matrix per term and computed a real matrix commutator
    per pair -- O(2**n_qubits) per term plus a matmul per pair, useless
    work at every size (n_qubits here is exact, not approximate) and
    prohibitively slow at larger n_qubits: measured 14.2s for a single
    n_qubits=10 call (n_majorana=20) vs. <1ms for this version, a
    ~14,000,000x speedup, with 0 mismatches verified against the old
    dense-matrix implementation across 200 real SYK instances at
    n_majorana=8 and exact matches at n_majorana=12/16/20 too. n_qubits
    is unused here (kept in the signature for API compatibility -- every
    other caller passes it) since the dict-based check needs only the
    terms' own qubit indices, not the full Hilbert space dimension.
    """
    dicts = [t[1] for t in terms]
    commuting = anticommuting = 0
    for a, b in itertools.combinations(range(len(dicts)), 2):
        da, db = dicts[a], dicts[b]
        disagreements = sum(1 for q in da if q in db and da[q] != db[q])
        if disagreements % 2 == 0:
            commuting += 1
        else:
            anticommuting += 1
    return commuting, anticommuting

select_good_instance

select_good_instance(
    n_majorana,
    k_terms,
    J,
    n_candidates=200,
    target_commuting=34,
)

Screen n_candidates random seeds by their exact commuting-pair count (cheap: only needs the k_terms operators' own small matrices, not the full protocol simulation) and return the seed whose count is closest to target_commuting -- the paper's selection criterion, applied here rather than trusting an arbitrary single seed.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def select_good_instance(n_majorana, k_terms, J, n_candidates=200, target_commuting=34):
    """Screen n_candidates random seeds by their exact commuting-pair
    count (cheap: only needs the k_terms operators' own small matrices,
    not the full protocol simulation) and return the seed whose count is
    closest to target_commuting -- the paper's selection criterion,
    applied here rather than trusting an arbitrary single seed."""
    n_qubits = n_majorana // 2
    best_seed, best_diff = None, None
    for seed in range(n_candidates):
        _, terms = build_sparse_syk_terms(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)
        c, _ = commuting_pair_count(terms, n_qubits)
        diff = abs(c - target_commuting)
        if best_diff is None or diff < best_diff:
            best_seed, best_diff = seed, diff
    return best_seed

run_wormhole_protocol

run_wormhole_protocol(
    n_majorana, k_terms, J, mu, t0, t1, seed, with_message
)

Exact-evolution backend: TFD/message setup -> evolve under H_L+H_R for t0 (exact matrix exponential, eigendecomposition-based) -> coupling exp(imuV) (exact) -> evolve for t1 (exact) -> mutual information between P and R[0].

mu<0 vs mu>0 is the "traversable" vs "non-traversable" sign in the paper's own convention, though note a given random SYK realization's sign doesn't have to line up with theirs -- what matters is that some consistent sign shows the enhancement (mu=-12 does, for the seed 61 instance -- see research/wormhole_syk.md).

Diagonalizing H_L+H_R and V (the two dense n_full x n_full eigendecompositions this needs) is reused across repeat calls at the same (n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed) via _cached_finite_beta_layout -- real cost for a caller scanning many mu/t0/t1 values at a fixed instance, previously redone identically on every single call.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def run_wormhole_protocol(n_majorana, k_terms, J, mu, t0, t1, seed, with_message):
    """Exact-evolution backend: TFD/message setup -> evolve under H_L+H_R
    for t0 (exact matrix exponential, eigendecomposition-based) ->
    coupling exp(i*mu*V) (exact) -> evolve for t1 (exact) -> mutual
    information between P and R[0].

    mu<0 vs mu>0 is the "traversable" vs "non-traversable" sign in the
    paper's own convention, though note a given random SYK realization's
    sign doesn't have to line up with theirs -- what matters is that
    *some* consistent sign shows the enhancement (mu=-12 does, for the
    seed 61 instance -- see research/wormhole_syk.md).

    Diagonalizing H_L+H_R and V (the two dense n_full x n_full
    eigendecompositions this needs) is reused across repeat calls at the
    same (n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed) via _cached_finite_beta_layout --
    real cost for a caller scanning many mu/t0/t1 values at a fixed
    instance, previously redone identically on every single call.
    """
    n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs = \
        _cached_finite_beta_layout(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)

    sim = de.DenseSVSimulator(n_full)
    sim.run_circuit(_initial_state_ops(n_side, L, R, P, Q, with_message))
    sv = sim.get_statevector()

    sv = _evolve(sv, eigvals, eigvecs, t0)
    sv = _evolve(sv, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs, mu)
    sv = _evolve(sv, eigvals, eigvecs, t1)
    return mutual_information(sv, n_full, [P], [R[0]])

run_wormhole_protocol_trotter

run_wormhole_protocol_trotter(
    n_majorana,
    k_terms,
    J,
    mu,
    t0,
    t1,
    seed,
    with_message,
    n_steps_evolution=8,
    n_steps_coupling=16,
)

Gate-circuit backend: identical protocol to run_wormhole_protocol, but every evolution step is a real Trotterized circuit (dense_evolution.trotter_evolve_ops) run through DenseSVSimulator.run_circuit, instead of exact matrix exponentiation -- closer to what real hardware would execute. At the known peak (seed 61, t0=0.3, t1=0.60, ~6300 real two-qubit-gate circuit) this reproduces the exact backend's result closely: I(mu=+12)=0.01301 vs exact 0.01326, I(mu=-12)=0.01821 vs exact 0.01793 -- the sign-dependent asymmetry survives with a real gate circuit, it isn't an artifact of the exact-evolution shortcut.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def run_wormhole_protocol_trotter(n_majorana, k_terms, J, mu, t0, t1, seed, with_message,
                                   n_steps_evolution=8, n_steps_coupling=16):
    """Gate-circuit backend: identical protocol to run_wormhole_protocol,
    but every evolution step is a real Trotterized circuit
    (dense_evolution.trotter_evolve_ops) run through
    DenseSVSimulator.run_circuit, instead of exact matrix exponentiation
    -- closer to what real hardware would execute. At the known peak
    (seed 61, t0=0.3, t1=0.60, ~6300 real two-qubit-gate circuit) this
    reproduces the exact backend's result closely: I(mu=+12)=0.01301 vs
    exact 0.01326, I(mu=-12)=0.01821 vs exact 0.01793 -- the
    sign-dependent asymmetry survives with a real gate circuit, it isn't
    an artifact of the exact-evolution shortcut."""
    n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, terms_full, v_terms = _protocol_layout(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)

    ops = _initial_state_ops(n_side, L, R, P, Q, with_message)
    ops += trotter_evolve_ops(terms_full, t0, n_steps_evolution)
    ops += trotter_evolve_ops(v_terms, mu, n_steps_coupling)
    ops += trotter_evolve_ops(terms_full, t1, n_steps_evolution)

    sim = de.DenseSVSimulator(n_full)
    sim.run_circuit(ops)
    sv = sim.get_statevector()
    return mutual_information(sv, n_full, [P], [R[0]])

run_wormhole_protocol_finite_beta

run_wormhole_protocol_finite_beta(
    n_majorana,
    k_terms,
    J,
    mu,
    t0,
    t1,
    beta,
    seed,
    with_message,
)

Identical exact-backend protocol to run_wormhole_protocol, except the initial state is the real finite-beta TFD (see _prepare_finite_beta_tfd_sv) instead of the beta=0 simplification run_wormhole_protocol and run_wormhole_protocol_trotter both use. beta=3 matches arXiv:2604.10090's own fixed choice (Section S2: "we consider J=sqrt(2), q=4, and beta=3").

Diagonalizing H and V is memoized per (n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed) via _cached_finite_beta_layout -- a repeat call at the same instance (different beta/mu) reuses it instead of redoing it from scratch. For an explicit (beta, mu) sweep at a fixed seed, _finite_beta_layout_precomputed + _run_finite_beta_precomputed remain available directly if a caller wants to hold the layout itself rather than rely on the cache.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def run_wormhole_protocol_finite_beta(n_majorana, k_terms, J, mu, t0, t1, beta, seed, with_message):
    """Identical exact-backend protocol to run_wormhole_protocol, except
    the initial state is the real finite-beta TFD (see
    _prepare_finite_beta_tfd_sv) instead of the beta=0 simplification
    run_wormhole_protocol and run_wormhole_protocol_trotter both use.
    beta=3 matches arXiv:2604.10090's own fixed choice (Section S2:
    "we consider J=sqrt(2), q=4, and beta=3").

    Diagonalizing H and V is memoized per (n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)
    via _cached_finite_beta_layout -- a repeat call at the same instance
    (different beta/mu) reuses it instead of redoing it from scratch.
    For an explicit (beta, mu) sweep at a fixed seed, _finite_beta_layout_precomputed
    + _run_finite_beta_precomputed remain available directly if a caller
    wants to hold the layout itself rather than rely on the cache."""
    n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs = \
        _cached_finite_beta_layout(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)
    return _run_finite_beta_precomputed(n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs,
                                         mu, t0, t1, beta, with_message)

find_delta_beta_bands

find_delta_beta_bands(
    n_majorana,
    k_terms,
    J,
    mu,
    t0,
    t1,
    seed,
    with_message,
    beta_max=6.0,
    beta_step=0.02,
)

Segments delta(beta) = I(mu=-mu) - I(mu=+mu) into constant-sign bands over beta in [0, beta_max], for a fixed instance -- i.e. the beta ranges where the sign-dependent teleportation signal is "correctly" vs. "wrongly" signed, and exactly where it flips.

Motivated by a real finding: the sign is NOT stable across beta for many instances (verified on 10 known 34/11-matched seeds -- 4 never flip, the other 6 flip 1-3 times each across [0, 6]), so a single per-instance sign (as every other backend in this module reports, all implicitly at beta=0) can be misleading -- this gives the full picture instead of one point on it.

Uses _cached_finite_beta_layout once per call (not per beta point) -- a beta_step=0.02 scan over [0, 6] is ~300 points x 2 mu signs (600 evaluations), all reusing the same eigendecomposition; measured at ~36-40s per seed total (~0.06-0.07s/evaluation after the one-time diagonalization), not ~13s/evaluation x 600 naive. A repeat call at the same seed (different mu/t0/t1/beta_max/beta_step) also reuses the cached diagonalization instead of redoing it.

Returns a list of dicts, one per constant-sign band, in beta order: {"beta_lo", "beta_hi", "sign" ("positive"/"negative"), "max_abs_delta"} (the largest |delta| reached within that band). Crossing points (the beta_lo/beta_hi shared between adjacent bands) are linearly interpolated between the nearest two grid points, not just snapped to the grid resolution.

Source code in tools/dashboard_core/wormhole.py

def find_delta_beta_bands(n_majorana, k_terms, J, mu, t0, t1, seed, with_message,
                           beta_max=6.0, beta_step=0.02):
    """Segments delta(beta) = I(mu=-mu) - I(mu=+mu) into constant-sign
    bands over beta in [0, beta_max], for a fixed instance -- i.e. the
    beta ranges where the sign-dependent teleportation signal is
    "correctly" vs. "wrongly" signed, and exactly where it flips.

    Motivated by a real finding: the sign is NOT stable across beta for
    many instances (verified on 10 known 34/11-matched seeds -- 4 never
    flip, the other 6 flip 1-3 times each across [0, 6]), so a single
    per-instance sign (as every other backend in this module reports,
    all implicitly at beta=0) can be misleading -- this gives the full
    picture instead of one point on it.

    Uses _cached_finite_beta_layout once per call (not per beta point) --
    a beta_step=0.02 scan over [0, 6] is ~300 points x 2 mu signs (600
    evaluations), all reusing the same eigendecomposition; measured at
    ~36-40s per seed total (~0.06-0.07s/evaluation after the one-time
    diagonalization), not ~13s/evaluation x 600 naive. A repeat call at
    the same seed (different mu/t0/t1/beta_max/beta_step) also reuses
    the cached diagonalization instead of redoing it.

    Returns a list of dicts, one per constant-sign band, in beta order:
    {"beta_lo", "beta_hi", "sign" ("positive"/"negative"),
    "max_abs_delta"} (the largest |delta| reached within that band).
    Crossing points (the beta_lo/beta_hi shared between adjacent bands)
    are linearly interpolated between the nearest two grid points, not
    just snapped to the grid resolution.
    """
    n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs = \
        _cached_finite_beta_layout(n_majorana, k_terms, J, seed)

    betas = np.arange(0.0, beta_max + beta_step / 2, beta_step)
    deltas = np.array([
        _run_finite_beta_precomputed(n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs,
                                      -mu, t0, t1, float(b), with_message)
        - _run_finite_beta_precomputed(n_side, n_full, L, R, P, Q, eigvals, eigvecs, v_eigvals, v_eigvecs,
                                        +mu, t0, t1, float(b), with_message)
        for b in betas
    ])

    signs = np.sign(deltas)
    crossings = []
    for i in range(1, len(betas)):
        if signs[i] != signs[i - 1] and signs[i] != 0 and signs[i - 1] != 0:
            b0, b1 = betas[i - 1], betas[i]
            d0, d1 = deltas[i - 1], deltas[i]
            crossings.append(float(b0 + (0 - d0) * (b1 - b0) / (d1 - d0)))

    edges = [0.0] + crossings + [float(beta_max)]
    bands = []
    for k in range(len(edges) - 1):
        b_lo, b_hi = edges[k], edges[k + 1]
        mask = (betas >= b_lo) & (betas <= b_hi)
        bands.append({
            "beta_lo": round(b_lo, 4),
            "beta_hi": round(b_hi, 4),
            "sign": "positive" if np.mean(deltas[mask]) > 0 else "negative",
            "max_abs_delta": float(np.max(np.abs(deltas[mask]))),
        })
    return bands

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Research log: Dense-Evolution-Discovery runs this implementation through 20+ real, verified experiments (parameter scans, generality checks, noise robustness, honest negative results) — see its own docs site for the full write-up. This page documents the shipped implementation; that repo documents what's been discovered by running it.