Dynamical Origin of Spectral Rigidity and the Montgomery–Dyson Correspondence: Part II. Controlled Commensurate Transition of Nuclear Level Statistics
In Part I, we proposed that quantum spectral level repulsion is dynamically sustained by continuous wave-node incommensurability—the non-divisibility of transition beat frequencies suppressing harmonic resonance locking. Here, we provide controlled numerical evidence through a two-stage baseline-and-inverse-intervention analysis of empirical neutron resonance spectra of compound nuclei (²³⁸U, N = 145) from Columbia University’s Nevis Laboratories, alongside large-scale asymptotic scans of non-trivial Riemann zeta zeros. First, a baseline scan across all 143 adjacent transition beat pairs reveals that 100% avoid harmonic integer divisibility, with a minimum detuning δ_min = 0.2277% exceeding the experimental tolerance δ_tol ≈ 0.10%. Second, the entire sequence is driven toward harmonic commensurability through a global parameter λ ∈ [0, 1]. Advancing λ compresses the wave-node distance from its natural incommensurate margin into the resonant tolerance window, while displacements remain bounded within physical level tolerance. Each configuration represents a physically accessible state in Part I. Under this compression, the natural level-repulsion barrier dissolves: entering the locking window triggers phase locking and mode clustering at exact commensurability. Extending this criterion across 10,000 consecutive critical-line Riemann zeta zeros and asymptotic windows (γ_n ≈ 10⁵), their normalized spacings strictly avoid integer harmonics, preserving a persistent detuning barrier (δ_min^ζ ≈ 0.1842% > δ_tol) and vanishing harmonic probability under metric Diophantine approximation. Together, the controlled nuclear intervention and arithmetic spacing test provide complementary numerical evidence that the Montgomery–Dyson correspondence may reflect a shared incommensurability mechanism—the dynamic avoidance of harmonic phase locking across physical and arithmetic spectral domains.
Authors
- Dongwoo Kwak
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-10-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23128033
- Primary Topic
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Type
- preprint