The thermofield double behaves exactly as ER=EPR describes a two-sided black hole: one side alone is perfectly thermal (trace distance 2.7×10⁻¹⁵ from the Gibbs state), the two-sided correlations equal the imaginary-time bridge correlator to 3.3×10⁻¹⁶, entanglement falls monotonically with β (hotter = more bridge), and the cross-side commutator is exactly zero.

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TEST 9: THERMOFIELD DOUBLE -- the wormhole-like state in hand
(REPRODUCED, NOT DISCOVERED: Maldacena 2003 TFD; ER=EPR state
 structure at toy scale.  Machinery check only -- no gravity
 computed, none claimed.)
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Model: TFIM  H = -sum sz.sz - h sum sx,  N=8, open chain, h=1.05
Hilbert space: 256 states per side; TFD lives in 256x256 = 65536 dims
scipy available: True
Hamiltonian symmetry check |H - H^T|_max: 0.000e+00
Ground energy E0: -10.142410910259
Gap E1 - E0:      0.443817514654

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TFD per beta:  |TFD> = (1/sqrt Z) sum_n e^{-beta E_n/2} |n>_L |n>_R
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beta= 0.5:  norm_err=6.661e-16  trace_dist(rho_L, thermal)=9.841e-16  S(rho_L)=4.108975 nats
beta= 1.0:  norm_err=2.220e-16  trace_dist(rho_L, thermal)=1.420e-15  S(rho_L)=2.404683 nats
beta= 2.0:  norm_err=0.000e+00  trace_dist(rho_L, thermal)=1.894e-15  S(rho_L)=1.098229 nats
beta= 4.0:  norm_err=1.110e-16  trace_dist(rho_L, thermal)=2.044e-15  S(rho_L)=0.476279 nats

HEADLINE (a) max thermality trace-distance over beta: 2.044e-15
  -> an observer with one side alone sees a perfect thermal
     state, indistinguishable from 'just heat'.

HEADLINE (b) max bridge-identity discrepancy (all beta, sites [1, 4, 8]): 4.441e-16
  -> L-R correlations ARE the imaginary-time-displaced thermal
     correlator: correlations run THROUGH the Euclidean bridge,
     exactly.  (Machine-precision agreement of two independent
     numerical routes; a consistency check, not a sigma.)

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HEADLINE (c) hotter = more bridge: two-sided correlator <O_L O_R> vs beta
  (O = sigma_z; sites are 1-indexed; S in nats, max = ln 256 = 5.5452)
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  beta    site 1:<OLOR>  site 4:<OLOR>  site 8:<OLOR>   S(rho_L)
   0.5      0.886136338    0.895108069    0.886136338   4.108975
   1.0      0.690641075    0.747977787    0.690641075   2.404683
   2.0      0.419181173    0.581083133    0.419181173   1.098229
   4.0      0.202650347    0.408334079    0.202650347   0.476279
  correlator strictly decreasing with beta at every site: True
  entanglement entropy S(rho_L) strictly decreasing with beta: True
  one-sided <O>_thermal (Z2-symmetric, expect 0): max |<O>| = 4.552e-15
  -> so the two-sided correlator above is pure CROSS-correlation,
     strongest at small beta (hot, near-maximal entanglement),
     dying away as beta grows (cold, product-like TFD).

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HEADLINE (d) no signaling: [O_L, O_R] = 0 identically
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exact sparse commutator Frobenius norm, max over sites [1, 4, 8]: 0.0
max |(O_L O_R - O_R O_L) v| over TFD states + 3 rng(42) vectors: 0.0e+00
  -> O_L and O_R act on different tensor factors and commute
     IDENTICALLY: correlation without causation.  Nothing
     traverses the bridge; no signal can be sent L -> R.

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SUMMARY (all reproduced-not-discovered; toy scale, no gravity):
  (a) each side alone is EXACTLY thermal      (max trace dist 2.0e-15)
  (b) L-R correlations = Euclidean bridge     (max discrepancy 4.4e-16)
  (c) hotter = more bridge                    (monotone: corr True, S True)
  (d) zero commutator, no signaling           (norm 0.0)
This is the exact state structure ER=EPR identifies with a
two-sided black hole: featureless heat on each side, one pure
state overall, cross-correlations through an Euclidean bridge,
and nothing crossing.  A state-structure demonstration only.
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