The living `N=1024` QGEFT branch supports directly resolved lifetimes of nonlocal shortcut channels between the tracked topological centers `885` and `509`. In the current 200-sweep benchmark, two channels decay on short timescales, one channel persists throughout the run, and a new channel nucleates spontaneously at sweep 166. The present data support dynamic channel creation and collapse, but do not yet show full blink-reappearance of the same edge.
Yaniv Cohen (Fri,) studied this question.