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Finite-mode implementability does not supply an infinite-mode limit

Statement refuted

Assume the Axiom of Choice. Fix a positive real action scale ℏ>0, a real squeeze parameter s≠0, and a finite integer N≥1. For a normalized vector in ⋂j=1ND(aj), define its mean total number by the quadratic form nN(ψ):=∑j=1N∥ajψ∥2. Define the one-mode dilation on L2(R) by [Usf](x)=e−s/2f(e−sx). The assertion refuted is that applying this dilation independently to N vacuum modes gives mean total number bounded uniformly over finite N and vacuum overlap bounded away from zero uniformly over those N.

In fact, the resulting finite-mode unitary exists, its mean total number is Nsinh⁡2(s), and the magnitude of its overlap with the N-mode vacuum is ∣⟨ΩN,Us⊗NΩN⟩∣=(cosh⁡s)−N/2⟶0. These exact finite-N calculations exhibit quantities that are not uniform in mode number. They do not prove an infinite-mode non-implementability theorem and do not assign a limiting density operator or measurement.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The Axiom of Choice, a positive action scale ℏ>0, a nonzero real squeeze parameter s, and a finite integer N≥1.

[A1]

AC supplies the Countable Choice and finite-representation hypotheses of the cited suppliers (The Axiom of Choice). The action scale is positive, ℏ>0, the squeeze is fixed with s∈R∖{0}, and the mode count is a finite integer N≥1.

[F1]

For u=cosh⁡s, v=sinh⁡s, the finite-mode Bogoliubov theorem supplies an implementer on every fixed finite product of N modes (Finite Bogoliubov implementability).

[F2]

The finite-mode Bogoliubov theorem supplies a unitary on every fixed finite number N of modes; it asserts nothing about an infinite collection (Finite Bogoliubov implementability).

[F3]

In Schrödinger coordinates, Q=ℏx, P=−iℏ∂x, and a=(Q+iP)/2ℏ; the vacuum is the normalized ground Hermite function (Finite-mode quadratures and symplectic data, Finite-mode Fock to Schrödinger identification).

[F4]

For A>0 and B∈R, ∫Re−Ax2+iBx dx=πAe−B2/(4A) by scaling the imported 2π-frequency Gaussian transform; finite-interval integration by parts and exponential domination justify the Gaussian second moment (Euclidean Gaussian transform with the 2π normalization, Complex integration by parts on intervals and decaying lines, The exponential dominates every fixed nonnegative integer power at +∞).

[F5]

In every finite dimension n, Lebesgue substitution applies to the C1 dilation x↦e−sx and every L1 integrand; in particular this covers ∣f∣2 in one mode, x2∣Usg0∣2, and the N-coordinate product dilation (A C^1 diffeomorphism satisfies the change-of-variables formula for L^1 functions).

Counterexample

1.1A1F1F2F3F4F5algebra

Apply [F5] to x↦e−sx and ∣f∣2 to get ∫R∣Usf(x)∣2dx=∫R∣f(y)∣2dy, and U−s is its inverse, so Us is unitary. The chain rule for Q=ℏx and P=−iℏ∂x gives Us∗aUs=cosh⁡(s)a+sinh⁡(s)a∗. The scalar pair obeys ∣u∣2−∣v∣2=1 and uv=vu. For the N-mode product take UN=uIN and VN=vIN; the finite Bogoliubov result [F1] supplies an implementer for these coefficients. Write ψs(x)=Usg0(x)=e−s/2π−1/4e−e−2sx2/2. Then aψs=1−e−2s2xψs. By [F4] with A=1,B=0, ∫e−y2dy=π. On [−R,R], integration by parts gives ∫−RRy2e−y2dy=[−y2e−y2]−RR+12∫−RRe−y2dy. The boundary term tends to zero by [F4], so ∫y2∣g0(y)∣2dy=1/2. The substitution y=e−sx in [F5] gives ∫Rx2∣ψs(x)∣2dx=e2s∫Ry2∣g0(y)∣2dy=e2s/2. Consequently ∥aψs∥2=(1−e−2s)22e2s2=sinh⁡2(s). By [F3], the N-mode Fock–Schrödinger unitary sends its vacuum ΩN to g0⊗N. On L2(RN) define [Us(N)f](x1,…,xN)=e−Ns/2f(e−sx1,…,e−sxN). The C1 change-of-variables formula [F5] in RN gives ∥Us(N)f∥2=∥f∥2, so this is unitary. It is the product of the one-mode dilations, and the coordinatewise chain rule gives Us(N)∗ajUs(N)=uaj+vaj∗ for each j. The finite Bogoliubov statement [F1] also supplies an implementer for this coefficient pair. Put ΨN=(UsΩ)⊗N under the same identification; its jth number expectation is the one-mode value ∥aψs∥2=sinh⁡2(s) already computed above. Each factor is a Schwartz Gaussian, so the product is in every D(aj). By the explicitly defined total-number form, the finite sum therefore gives nN(ΨN)=∑j=1N∥ajΨN∥2=Nsinh⁡2(s). The product unitary exists because it is the tensor product of finitely many copies of this unitary. The same coefficient pair is covered by the finite Bogoliubov statement [F2]; no infinite product is taken.

2.1A1F1F2F4step 1.1algebra∎

In Schrödinger coordinates, Ω=g0 and Usg0(x)=e−s/2π−1/4e−e−2sx2/2. Set A=(1+e−2s)/2>0. By [F4] with B=0, ∫Re−Ax2dx=π/A=2π1+e−2s. Hence ⟨g0,Usg0⟩=π−1/2e−s/22π1+e−2s=2es+e−s=1cosh⁡s. Since Us and g0 are real and positive here, this is also the overlap magnitude; the formula holds for every real s. Product inner products factor over the N modes, yielding ∣⟨ΩN,ΨN⟩∣=(cosh⁡s)−N/2. For s≠0, cosh⁡s>1, so this magnitude tends to zero as N→∞. Together with step 1.1 this proves only the stated finite-N divergence and overlap limit. Finite-dimensional implementation does not itself provide an infinite-mode implementer, and this example does not prove that none exists.

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