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Regulated soft coherent photon-count prediction
Fixed finite massive prescribed charge-flow current, measurable transverse polarizations, and finite photon-energy cutoffs 0 < lambda < Lambda. The result is the exact count distribution and mean energy of the constructed normalized positive-free-photon coherent state under the adopted finite projective Born interpretation. For positive angular coefficient the zero-cutoff family has no Fock-vector or projective-ray limit despite bounded mean energy. No interacting-QED scattering event, detector response, or empirical observation is asserted.
Statement
Assume The Axiom of Countable Choice (). Use the SI/natural normalizations of Quantum field quantities and compatible SI normalizations and QFT example units, metric, gauge, and pairing conventions, in particular the spacetime metric , the algebraic energy-momentum metric , and the dimensionless coupling with . For a finite nonempty index set , take rest energies in joules and energy-momentum vectors with components in joules, , and . The sign selects the future mass shell in the adopted spacetime convention. Put , so . Choose signs and real dimensionless charges satisfying . These are prescribed current data, not dynamical charged-particle trajectories.
For , let with photon energy in joules and define The dot in this current formula is -contraction; in particular . Choose measurable real orthonormal spatial polarizations with almost everywhere. Put and . Define the finite nonnegative angular coefficient
For fixed energy cutoffs in joules, define , where , and The current draft mathematical supplier Soft-current angular norm and exact cutoff coherent model supplies the transverse energy-space norm and unitary conversion. The measurable orthonormal polarization frame gives the pointwise unitary identification proved in step 3.1; composing it with that conversion identifies with the positive transverse one-particle space of Positive transverse photon one-particle space by the unitary map below, where for the notation denotes the homogeneous extension of the supplied sphere frame: Here is a wave vector in and is the corresponding energy-momentum vector in joules. Set and prepare the normalized coherent vector in the free photon Fock space where the term is the vacuum sector. Let be the number-sector projection from Bosonic Fock number operator and counting PVM and define as the model probability assigned to outcome by the finite two-outcome projective partition . Then with ; these probabilities sum to one, the mean photon count is , and the vacuum probability is . The expected photon energy is for of Positive transverse free photon model. If , the family has no Fock-norm or projective-ray limit as (projective-ray convergence means norm convergence after allowing a unit-modulus phase for each cutoff), although its mean energy tends to the finite value .
For the prescribed one-charge rest-to-velocity current with final velocity , , take , , and , , , where is the rest energy and . The same coefficient is If , the cutoff family has no Fock-norm or projective-ray limit as ; the proof below derives this from adjacent-shell overlaps and does not use the supplier's separate conditional infrared-limit clause. Its required norm and coherent-state inputs remain conditional on the inspected draft supplier until its upstream inputs are current. This prediction concerns only the constructed positive free coherent state and its count PVM under the adopted physical assumptions. It does not infer that a full interacting-QED scattering event emits that state or that a detector realizes this PVM.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The current and energy-coordinate conventions in the Statement, the adopted positive free photon model and finite Born interpretation, and the current QFT-MX03 draft at the exact inspected interface stated below.
Assume The Axiom of Countable Choice (), the countable-choice strength used by the Fock and finite-instrument suppliers.
Positive transverse free photon model: the current draft postulate adopts and for the source-free positive transverse photon model. Its current item and qft-g01 page are present at dependency level . Its current Step 1 record is escalated because its adopted local-observable dependency chain remains conditional. The adopted Hamiltonian interface matches this use, but the model remains conditional on that chain.
Physical interpretation of a supplied constructed quantum model: the current draft Born postulate takes a density operator and a supplied normalized finite bounded Kraus instrument, and assigns . The mathematical normalization result declared among this postulate's prerequisites, lem-qft-finite-instrument-normalization, supplies the unit-vector case: for a unit vector , the rank-one operator is a density operator under the second-variable-linear pairing, and the outcome probability is . A spectral PVM may be used only after its declared finite Borel partition is constructed and verified as a finite projective instrument.
Quantum field quantities and compatible SI normalizations: spacetime uses , , has unit , and photon energy is in joules.
QFT example units, metric, gauge, and pairing conventions: the energy-momentum contraction is and the positive dimensionless coupling is ; the local coupling satisfies .
Positive transverse photon one-particle space: the positive one-particle space is ; no global continuous polarization frame is chosen. Its current QFT-MG01 item carrier and ready Step 1 record were inspected.
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions: bosonic Fock space is the square-summable direct sum of symmetric sectors, with vacuum sector and the second-variable-linear pairing.
Bosonic Fock number operator and counting PVM: is the projection onto the th symmetric sector.
The Fock number operator has its sector counting PVM: is self-adjoint and its sector projections form a strongly countably additive PVM; every finite Borel partition gives an orthogonal finite resolution of the identity.
Self-adjoint Segal fields and explicit Weyl unitaries: for a separable complex Hilbert space with the second-variable-linear pairing, are unitary Weyl operators satisfying and . It also gives for every . Separability of is an explicit hypothesis of this supplier.
Soft-current angular norm and exact cutoff coherent model: the draft mathematical Statement supplies the energy-coordinate cutoff norm, transverse unitary conversion, normalized coherent-sector weights and free-energy expectation for the prescribed balanced massive current. The norm, map, weights and energy arguments are its proof steps 2.1, 3.1, 4.1 and 5.1; step 7.1 proves projective-ray nonconvergence from coherent overlaps. This proof uses the first four interfaces and proves the projective-ray claim independently below. The completed QFT-MX03 A/B carriers are in the mathematics library; the earlier native report of an absent physical page path, an unregistered QFT-MF01 page edge and Q8 polar-input obligations is retained as historical owner evidence. The local supplier repairs do not confer independent acceptance or replace current native readiness reconciliation.
The application of [F7] below is on . The rational-box density and bounded transverse projection argument in [L1]'s step 1.2 proves that is separable: it constructs a countable dense set in the ambient complex and maps it by the bounded projection onto a countable dense subset of its range. This is the current draft supplier's explicit separability argument, under the countable choice and transverse-space hypotheses already recorded above.
Proof
Given: [A1]–[A3], [F1]–[F9], and the exact current and cutoff data in the Statement.
For each and , . Since there are finitely many massive terms, ; each denominator is bounded below by , so and its transverse components are bounded. For the measurable orthonormal frame , . Thus the integrand is nonnegative and measurable, and compactness of gives .
For the one-charge rest-to-velocity current, put . Its spatial current is , hence . Integrating over azimuth and then setting gives Therefore For , and on , so .
The fixed-current, charge-balance, transverse-polarization, and cutoff hypotheses match [L1]. The current formula simplifies to , and step 1.1 identifies the polarization sum with , exactly the angular convention of [L1]. This is a conditional use of the inspected draft carrier at its actual interface.
For each spatial direction where the prescribed real polarization frame is orthonormal, define by . Direct expansion gives . For every complex transverse vector , its real and imaginary parts are in the real plane spanned by the two frame vectors, so ; these coefficients give the inverse. The frame is measurable, hence is a measurable unitary from onto [L1]'s transverse energy space, preserving the weighted integral pairing; its inverse has components and is also measurable. Composing with the unitary of [L1] gives precisely the displayed with its unchanged factor . Because , the prescribed amplitude satisfies on the cutoff shell. With from [F2], put . Thus in [L1]'s notation, and its exact squared norm is . This sign does not change any sector norm or energy: on sector it multiplies the coherent tensor by , and this direct-sum unitary preserves the energy domain and commutes with the sector energy multipliers. Consequently [L1]'s coherent-sector and energy formulas apply to the normalized vector in this Statement. These uses require only its displayed mathematical interfaces, not its separate infrared clause.
By [F5]–[F6], is an orthogonal projection and is its orthogonal complement. The two Kraus operators and are bounded and satisfy , so they form a normalized finite projective instrument. The state from step 3.1 is a unit vector. Put , with ; by the unit-vector case in [A3], this is the density-operator input to the Born postulate. Applying its outcome formula to the first Kraus operator gives . This uses the finite two-outcome partition for each singleton event and assumes no countably infinite Kraus instrument.
The expected photon energy is the energy-coordinate expectation from [L1], transferred to the adopted free Hamiltonian by its unitary map and [A2]. The cutoffs are energies in joules, so has unit joule.
Assume for the nonconvergence claim. The Segal–Weyl supplier [F7] requires a separable complex Hilbert space; [F8] verifies this for , and by [L1]. Let for , and set and . The difference is the same current amplitude restricted to the shell . Applying [L1]'s cutoff norm formula to that shell gives . The explicit exponential-vector formula in [F7] gives for either sign of the amplitude. Unitarity and the Weyl product law in [F7] give for some real phase . Applying the vacuum expectation formula in [F7] yields
The projection retains exactly sector by [F5]. The sector formula from [L1] gives . The symmetric tensor norm is multiplicative and preserves the one-particle norm, so .
The exponential series gives and, by reindexing its nonnegative terms, . The zero-sector term is , including under .
For unit vectors , expansion of and choice of to align their inner product give . Step 4.3 therefore gives the fixed positive squared adjacent-ray distance along . A projective-ray limit would make these adjacent distances tend to zero, a contradiction. Ordinary Fock-norm convergence is the special case without phase adjustment and is also impossible. The energy from step 4.2 tends to the finite value ; nonconvergence is not caused by divergent mean energy.
Depends on
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
QFT example units, metric, gauge, and pairing conventions
Quantum field quantities and compatible SI normalizations
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
Positive transverse photon one-particle space
Bosonic Fock number operator and counting PVM
Self-adjoint Segal fields and explicit Weyl unitaries
Physical interpretation of a supplied constructed quantum model
Positive transverse free photon model
Soft-current angular norm and exact cutoff coherent model
The Fock number operator has its sector counting PVM
The natural logarithm has derivative 1/x and equals the integral from 1 to x of 1/t
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- David Tong, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted complete lecture notes, Chapter 6, §§6.2.1–6.2.2
- Mark Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted 2006 complete prepublication book draft, §§54–56
- Roy J. Glauber, “Coherent and Incoherent States of the Radiation Field,” Physical Review 131 (1963), 2766–2788, §§II–III and IX