Size Operator and Spectral Clustering in the Two Coupled SYK Model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-08-03 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
At large , two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models realize an eternal traversable wormhole with a discrete spectrum. We show that at finite the spectrum organizes into clusters labeled by operator size. Low-size clusters evolve into the conformal towers and define a weak-ergodicity-breaking subspace responsible for the long-lived wormhole revival dynamics. Moreover, the competition between size energy and size entropy provides a microscopic interpretation of the wormhole-black hole transition. These results reveal operator size as the bridge between the finite- spectrum and the emergent gravitational physics at large .
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@article{arxiv.2608.02696,
title = {Size Operator and Spectral Clustering in the Two Coupled SYK Model},
author = {Juan Santos-Suárez and Martí Berenguer and Javier Mas and Alfonso V. Ramallo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02696},
year = {2026}
}
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5+22 pages, 4+5 figures