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Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace
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2 · Summary
Scope
This page develops symmetric and antisymmetric Fock spaces for a specified finite or countable orthonormal mode basis, occupation bases, actual weighted domains for bosonic creation and annihilation operators, bounded fermionic CAR operators, and exact self-adjoint diagonal energy and number multipliers. Grand occupation traces are stated with their countable-choice and summability hypotheses; trace normalization alone does not imply finite energy moments or parameter differentiability. The Fock construction does not select the statistics of a physical species.
The physical items separately adopt Bose/Fermi sector assignment and canonical or grand-canonical Gibbs preparation. The dilute comparison has an explicit squared-fugacity error. The oscillator result uses the current proved Hermite basis and self-adjoint domain; the finite spectral periodic gas is not identified with a differential periodic Laplacian. The ideal Fermi endpoint and fixed-mean-density Bose condensation are restricted model deductions. The latter is grand canonical and its zero-mode density does not concentrate above critical density.
The lattice Gaussian result uses the exact Gaussian/gamma formulas of Gaussian, gamma and beta product integrals from the required CSM page. That helper proves its Gaussian values and parameter derivatives from the closed forms and the Gamma recurrence; no M17 supplier is needed. The QSM lattice argument uses the Gaussian value and its finite products. The five extended-framework inventory entries whose page field names auxiliary pages are placed here according to their home value; this follows the paired inventory's page record and is noted in batch evidence.
All energies and chemical potentials in physical applications are joules; temperature is in K, Boltzmann's constant is in J K, and is in J. The reduced Planck constant is in J s, angular frequency is in s, mass is in kg, lengths are in m, and mode labels and occupations are dimensionless. Derived model predictions are not reported observations.
3 · Logical flowchart
4 · Definitions, postulates, theorems and proofs
Symmetric and antisymmetric identical-particle Fock spaces
Definition
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice, written (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be a specified finite or countably infinite mode set with a fixed enumeration, and let have its coordinate orthonormal basis . Put , , and define each completed tensor power recursively by , using the first-variable-linear product inner product of Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases. For , let permute the tensor factors for , and let
with . The permutation-sector theorem Permutation sector projections on the n-fold tensor power makes these orthogonal projections. Define the symmetric and antisymmetric sectors . Define
The vector is the vacuum, and the finite-particle subspace consists of vectors with only finitely many nonzero components.
This is a mathematical construction for a specified mode basis. Choosing its symmetric or antisymmetric sector for a physical species is a separate model postulate. No spin-statistics theorem or physical species assignment is part of the definition.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A finite or countable enumerated mode set , the coordinate Hilbert space , its completed tensor powers, and the symmetric-group action.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): every at most countable family of nonempty sets has a choice function.
Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases, Statement (c)–(d): the completed tensor product of complex Hilbert spaces has the product inner product, is complete, and the products of complete orthonormal families form a complete orthonormal family.
Permutation sector projections on the n-fold tensor power, Statement (a)–(c): the factor permutations are unitary, and their symmetric and antisymmetric averages are orthogonal projections whose ranges are the fixed and sign-transforming subspaces.
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs: the inner product pairing satisfies the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality.
Proof
The tensor factors and product pairing in the Definition are supplied by [F1]. For every , [F2] makes an orthogonal projection. The range of an orthogonal projection is closed: if and , boundedness of gives . Therefore each is a closed subspace of the complete tensor Hilbert space and is itself complete.
For , Cauchy–Schwarz for the square-summable nonnegative sequences and gives . Hence the displayed pairing converges absolutely, is sesquilinear, and is positive definite because forces every coordinate to vanish.
Let be Cauchy in this norm. For each fixed , is Cauchy in the complete sector , so it converges to some . If and for all , then for every finite , passing in the finite sum yields . Also . Taking suprema over finite proves , so , and then for all . Thus the direct sum is complete.
For , truncating after sector changes its squared norm by . Therefore the finite-particle subspace is dense and is a unit vector.
Occupation bases and actual CCR/CAR domains
Statement
Let and be as in Symmetric and antisymmetric identical-particle Fock spaces. Define
For either statistics choice, write . If , choose the elementary tensor containing copies of each mode in the fixed order and set
If , list its occupied modes increasingly in the fixed enumeration, let be their elementary tensor and set
For , both vectors are the vacuum. These vectors form orthonormal bases and define unitary identifications and .
On the finite-support span of the bosonic basis, define
where the annihilation term is zero when . Their maximal closed extensions have domains
and . On , they satisfy , , and .
On the fermionic basis define
These operators are bounded on the full fermionic Fock space and satisfy and . These are mathematical sector relations; they do not select a physical species or imply a spin-statistics theorem.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the Fock spaces, completed tensor powers, projections, coordinate basis and fixed enumeration in Symmetric and antisymmetric identical-particle Fock spaces.
Symmetric and antisymmetric identical-particle Fock spaces, Definition: the product tensors form a complete orthonormal family in each tensor power, the sector projections are orthogonal, and the Fock space is the square-summable direct sum of their ranges.
Permutation sector projections on the n-fold tensor power, Statement (b)–(d): symmetrizing and antisymmetrizing by the finite permutation averages gives the indicated orthogonal sectors, and an antisymmetrized elementary tensor with a repeated factor is zero.
Adjoint of a densely defined operator: a vector lies in the adjoint domain exactly when the adjoint pairing on the dense domain is bounded; testing on basis vectors determines its adjoint coordinates. Densely defined, closed and closable operators, and cores: a closed operator is determined by its graph, and graph-norm truncations give a core.
Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs: the inner-product and square-sum pairings satisfy Cauchy–Schwarz.
Proof
Let . In the bosonic permutation average , each distinct product word with occupation profile occurs times out of permutations. Therefore The product words are orthonormal by [F1], so the squared norm of this average is ; the prefactor in makes its norm one. Distinct occupation profiles have disjoint word supports, hence their vectors are orthogonal.
If a fermionic list repeats a mode, [F2] makes its antisymmetrization zero; excludes these profiles. For distinct occupied modes, the permuted product words are distinct orthonormal vectors with coefficients , so . The prefactor normalizes the vector. Distinct occupied subsets have disjoint product-word support and are orthogonal.
The fixed enumeration identifies a finite-support configuration with a finite sequence of natural indices and finitely many nonnegative integer labels (or bits); the union over all finite sequence lengths is countable. Thus and are countable and their coordinate descriptions are well defined.
On the bosonic basis, shifting the coordinate index gives and . Hence the stated weighted domains are exactly the domains on which the shifted coefficient sequences lie in . If and either shifted sequence converges in , coordinate convergence shows the limiting output has the same weighted-shift coordinates; its square summability puts in the displayed domain. Thus both maximal shifts are closed. Testing the adjoint identity against each basis vector forces the reverse weighted shift [F3], while Cauchy--Schwarz gives the converse pairing bound [F4]. Truncating to finite initial sets of configurations makes the weighted tails tend to zero in graph norm, so is a core for both shifts under the graph definition in [F3].
Product words span a dense subspace of each tensor power by [F1]. Applying the bounded projections to that dense span gives a dense subspace of each projected sector. Every projected product word is either zero or a scalar multiple of the corresponding occupation vector from steps 1.1–1.2. Thus the occupation vectors are complete in each sector and, after taking the direct sum over , form orthonormal bases of the Fock spaces.
For , direct action on gives and . For , both orders of distinct coordinate shifts give the same coefficient and same occupation vector, so the shifts commute; the same direct coordinate calculation applies to two annihilators and two creators. This proves the CCR on , without asserting that unbounded commutators are defined on all Fock space.
Each fermionic shift maps a subset of an orthonormal basis into another orthonormal subset with coefficients of modulus at most one, so it is a contraction on the finite span and extends boundedly. For distinct , the two orders in any CAR anticommutator are either both zero or have equal magnitudes and opposite signs: toggling the earlier mode changes by one the number of occupied modes preceding the later index. For , if then and ; if the roles reverse. The other same-mode anticommutators vanish. Thus all CAR identities hold on the basis span and extend by boundedness to the whole Fock space.
Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace
Statement
Assume The Axiom of Countable Choice (). Let be finite or countably infinite with a specified enumeration, let be the occupation configurations of Occupation bases and actual CCR/CAR domains, and let be finite mode energies. For each finite-support configuration put
These are finite sums. On , define the real diagonal multipliers
and, for ,
Each is self-adjoint on its displayed domain. No equality between and is asserted.
For , set . In the bosonic case assume
Here by convention when is empty; for nonempty the displayed supremum is unchanged. In the fermionic case assume , , and only finitely many gaps are negative. Define the positive diagonal multiplier by . Then is trace class, with
Thus is a positive trace-class operator of trace one. Its finite-mode marginals are independent: bosonic occupation has law , and fermionic occupation has probabilities and . In particular
The total number has finite mean and variance under the stated mode conditions. The trace hypotheses alone do not imply finite energy moments or differentiability in .
For an additional compact-parameter envelope, the corresponding response identities hold. For fixed , let be a nonempty open interval. If for every compact a summable satisfies for all and , then throughout , and . If varies over an open set and a summable compact-parameter envelope dominates , then at fixed , and . These stronger moment envelopes are additional hypotheses, not consequences of trace-class normalization.
For a finite mode set , the canonical fixed-number coefficients are defined by
Each coefficient is the sum of the Boltzmann weights over the corresponding number sector; for a countable mode set it is the increasing limit over finite mode sets and is finite under the stated grand-trace hypotheses. A fixed-number law is the grand law conditioned on total number, so its occupations are generally coupled. The oscillator specialization uses the actual one-particle Hermite basis and diagonal domain of Oscillator scaling and exact realization, not a formal differential eigenfunction list.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable mode configurations and the bosonic/fermionic occupation bases.
Occupation bases and actual CCR/CAR domains, Statement: and are countable configuration sets, their occupation vectors are complete orthonormal bases, and the CCR/CAR shifts have the displayed domains and laws.
Countable canonical model, Definition: a countable canonical model has partition sum , normalized weights when , and expectations on their absolute-moment domains.
Summable canonical differentiation, Statement: on an open parameter interval, the compact local envelope makes positive finite and , with and .
Single-mode Bose and Fermi occupation fluctuations, Statement: for , the geometric law has mean and variance ; the two-state law with weights has mean and variance .
Grand-response derivatives are covariances, Statement: for a measurable exponential family with a compact-parameter integrable envelope dominating the exponential times , derivatives of and expectations are means and covariances.
Diagonal adjoint and graph-core lemma and Oscillator scaling and exact realization, Statements: the oscillator eigenbasis is complete and its self-adjoint diagonal operator has domain , with eigenvalues .
Trace class operator, Absolute value and singular values of a compact operator, Positive square root of a compact positive operator, and Trace of a positive operator is the sum of its eigenvalues: for a positive compact diagonal operator, its absolute value is itself, its singular values are its nonnegative diagonal eigenvalues with multiplicity, summability makes it trace class, and its trace is their sum.
Adjoint of a densely defined operator: the adjoint domain is determined by boundedness of the adjoint pairing on the dense operator domain; Cauchy–Schwarz: , with equality exactly for dependent pairs bounds the coordinate pairing.
The mode energies and are finite real parameters; all q-summability and compact-envelope assumptions in the Statement are imposed exactly where used.
Proof
The configuration set is countable by [F1]. Every has finite support, so the sums defining and are finite real sums. The finite-support vectors form a dense subspace of .
If is empty, its only occupation configuration is the vacuum: , on , and . The empty products are one, the total number has mean and variance zero, and every stated parameter derivative is zero; the convention makes the bosonic hypotheses valid. For a finite mode set , summing the positive diagonal weights independently over each bosonic coordinate gives . In the fermionic case each coordinate has only two values and contributes . This proves the finite-mode trace products.
For a fixed , the countable configuration model has weights and degeneracies one. On the nonempty open interval , the compact -envelope in the Statement ensures that [F2]–[F3] apply to this exact countable index set and energy , giving the displayed beta-derivative identities and finite moments. The envelope is stronger than trace finiteness and is stated separately.
For joint response, put , , and natural parameter . The map is a smooth bijection onto its open image for , with nonzero Jacobian. The stated joint envelope is exactly the required second-moment envelope for [F5]; differentiating at fixed gives and .
Let multiply the coordinate by a real number , on the domain . Testing the adjoint identity on each coordinate vector forces the adjoint coordinates to be , so is exactly this weighted domain by [F8]. Conversely, on that domain Cauchy–Schwarz makes the coordinate pairing bounded and identifies the adjoint action with the same multiplier. Apply this argument to , , and ; all three displayed operators are self-adjoint.
Enumerate a countable mode set by increasing finite initial sets . Their finite-support configuration sets increase to , so the full nonnegative trace sum is the increasing limit of the finite-mode sums. For bosons, , hence . For fermions, , hence . The products therefore have finite positive limits and equal the full diagonal trace sums; the negative fermionic gaps are finite by hypothesis, and each has finite weight.
If is infinite, enumerate it as and let retain the first diagonal entries of ; in the finite case take the full finite sum. Each has finite rank and hence is compact. Since the omitted entries are nonnegative and summable, their supremum is bounded by their sum, so . The norm-limit theorem therefore makes compact. It is positive diagonal and satisfies ; uniqueness of its compact positive square root gives . Its singular values are the nonnegative diagonal entries with multiplicity, whose sum is . Thus [F7] and the trace-class definition make it trace class and give . Dividing by gives a positive trace-class operator of trace one.
Fix one mode , and take increasing finite mode sets containing it. For bosons, the trace weight of configurations in with occupation at is ; division by the total finite trace gives . For fermions the same calculation gives probability , for . Taking increasing limits of the nonnegative configuration sums preserves these factorizations, because every finite-support configuration is eventually included and the finite products converge by step 2.2. Factoring over any fixed finite list of modes gives the product joint law, hence independence of finite collections in this diagonal grand state.
For finite , multiplying the geometric series in each bosonic coordinate gives the coefficient identity for ; multiplying the two-term polynomials in each fermionic coordinate gives the identity for . Each coefficient sums exactly the finite canonical Boltzmann weights with total occupation . For countable , increasing finite mode sets increase each coefficient to its sum over all finite-support configurations; for any admissible fugacity , nonnegativity gives , hence , and a canonical density exists exactly when the coefficient is positive. Conditioning the grand law on multiplies by the indicator of that constraint and generally couples the mode occupations.
If , [F4] gives the stated Bose and Fermi means and variances. For a fermionic mode with , direct summation of its two probabilities gives and ; no geometric-series claim is used there. The bosonic bounds and , and the fermionic bounds and , are summable. For finite initial mode sets, independence from step 3.2 gives and . Each configuration has finite support, so ; passing to the increasing limits of the defining nonnegative countable sums yields finite and , with .
In the one-dimensional oscillator specialization, [F6] supplies the Hermite eigenbasis, energy list and exact diagonal domain; substitution of those eigenvalues into the Fock multiplier gives the stated occupation construction. This uses the actual self-adjoint oscillator carrier rather than a formal differential eigenfunction list.
Remarks
The current published mathematical oscillator items match the former research alias research-NRQM-M12-diagonal-oscillator-contract on the needed diagonal domain, Hermite completeness and positive-frequency spectrum. The current published thm-tdmath-summable-canonical-differentiation and lem-tdmath-bose-fermi-mode-fluctuations match the former M16 and single-mode M36 interfaces; the Fermi formula for is verified directly above because the M36 source statement assumes . No alias is treated as a current carrier when its exact item is absent.
Lattice Gaussian Riemann limits and the singular Bose endpoint
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Let be an integer, , and . Define for and for finite . For each , both and are continuous, and for every fixed integer their polynomially weighted lattice sums converge with The convergence is uniform when ranges over a compact subset of for bosons or for fermions. At the Bose endpoint , define for . For every fixed and , monotone convergence gives as , where the extended endpoint value is It is finite exactly when . In that case the missing-origin lattice sums satisfy No value is assigned to .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ; the Lebesgue integral and product-space conventions of the linked measure definitions; , .
Gaussian, gamma and beta product integrals, Statement and proof: the Gaussian integral is for , and its finite products give the dimensional Gaussian value. Its full parameter-derivative clause is separately proved by differentiating the independently evaluated moments; this theorem uses only its Gaussian evaluation clause, not parameter differentiation.
Lebesgue measurable sets, the family , and the restricted set function and The nonnegative Lebesgue integral: boxes have their usual volume and nonnegative integrals are defined by increasing simple-function approximation.
Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product: nonnegative measurable functions may be integrated in either order, including countable sums against Lebesgue measure.
Monotone convergence for the integral: increasing nonnegative measurable functions have integrals converging to the integral of their pointwise limit.
A box in with parameters is Lebesgue measurable of measure , whichever of its faces are included: an axis-parallel box has Lebesgue measure equal to the product of its side lengths.
is the mesh size; and are fixed positive real parameters. In later physical uses has units energy·length, has units length, and has units energy.
Proof
For , the Bose denominator is bounded below by on compact sets; for finite , the Fermi denominator is at least . At large , each occupation is bounded by for positive constants depending on a compact parameter neighborhood. A polynomial factor is absorbed by a slower Gaussian because is bounded on . Thus the continuum integrands and their polynomially weighted tails are integrable by comparison with products of one dimensional Gaussians and Tonelli [F3,F1]. For each fixed , the max-norm shell has at most points, and its summand is bounded by a fixed polynomial in times ; the ratio of successive polynomial-Gaussian terms is eventually below a constant less than one, proving every lattice sum is finite.
At and , gives . If , the number of integer lattice points in that shell is , while . Hence for , when ; the last estimate follows by comparison on each unit interval with the integral of (and for the sum is bounded by a constant times ). The continuum small-ball integral has the same bound by decomposing into dyadic annuli, each with volume at most a constant times its radius to power .
On a fixed compact cube, uniform continuity of implies that replacing its value on each mesh cube by its value at the lattice corner changes the integral by at most the cube volume times the common modulus of continuity; summing finitely many cubes makes this error tend to zero. The measure of each mesh cube is by [F5]. This proves convergence on compact cubes.
To control tails uniformly for , let . For , . The Gaussian bound from step 1.1 therefore bounds each weighted lattice summand times by a fixed constant times the integral of a slower Gaussian over ; the polynomial weight is absorbed by reducing its exponent once more. Cubes whose centers satisfy lie outside the ball of radius . The integral of the slower Gaussian on that exterior tends to zero as , by [F1,F3]. Compact convergence from step 2.1 and this uniform tail bound prove the stated full-space limit and finiteness of every lattice sum.
Outside any fixed ball around zero, is continuous and has Gaussian tails, so the compact-annulus and tail argument in steps 2.1 and 3.1 applies. Split both the sum and integral into , , and . First take on the annulus, then using Gaussian tails, and finally using step 1.2. This proves convergence of the missing-origin Bose sums without assigning an origin value.
For , the positive geometric series gives . Its partial sums increase pointwise, so [F4] and Tonelli [F3] give the equality as extended nonnegative integrals . The product Gaussian integral [F1] evaluates each term as . The resulting positive series converges exactly when , by comparison of with , and diverges otherwise. For , increases pointwise to as , so [F4] also gives convergence of the corresponding integrals to this endpoint value. This proves the extended endpoint formula, its divergence for , and the integral limit used by the Bose condensation theorem.
Remarks
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Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation
Adoption of NRQM state and Born-measurement terminology on declared QSM Hilbert spaces, a specified self-adjoint Hamiltonian with domain, a chosen symmetric boson or antisymmetric fermion sector, and a canonical or grand-canonical Gibbs preparation only when its trace is positive and finite. General self-adjoint spectral measurements inherit the Axiom of Choice hypothesis of their NRQM supplier; countable diagonal Fock traces inherit AC_omega. P1's fixed-particle-number physical scope is not extended to variable-number grand models. This formulation asserts no spin-statistics theorem, thermalization dynamics, universal equilibrium, empirical observation, or applicability to a particular species.
Postulate
For a declared QSM model, let be a specified finite or countably infinite mode set with a fixed enumeration and let . The model assigns a nonzero separable complex Hilbert space and declares whether it is a fixed-particle-number sector or the Fock space of Symmetric and antisymmetric identical-particle Fock spaces. By that definition, is the Hilbert direct sum of the symmetric or antisymmetric -particle tensor sectors for , including the vacuum sector . The assignment is a physical model assumption. The symmetric or antisymmetric sector is selected independently for bosons or fermions; this selection is not derived from the Fock construction or from a nonrelativistic spin-statistics theorem.
The words pure preparation and state have the exact meanings in clauses (i)–(iii) of State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems: a pure preparation is a unit ray in , and a general state is a self-adjoint positive trace-class operator with . These mathematical state definitions are used for the QSM Hilbert spaces declared above; the reference does not extend that NRQM postulate's fixed-particle-number physical scope to a variable-number grand-canonical system. The countable-choice hypothesis is The Axiom of Countable Choice ().
A sharp measurement is specified by a densely defined self-adjoint operator , its declared physical unit, and its spectral projection-valued measure on the Borel sets of , as in clauses (i)–(iii) of Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes. Here a projection-valued measure is a map from Borel sets to orthogonal projections with , , , and strong countable additivity. The adopted Born law is for Borel ; clauses (a)–(b) of Density operators and scalar spectral probability give a probability measure under . For a finite unsharp measurement, a specified finite family of bounded effects with has outcome probabilities , as in clause (iv) of Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes. The arbitrary self-adjoint spectral construction in that postulate also assumes the Axiom of Choice; any use inherits that exact mathematical premise.
An Axiom of Choice hypothesis The Axiom of Choice accompanies the general self-adjoint spectral construction in P2. A model Hamiltonian is a densely defined self-adjoint operator representing energy, with its domain and energy unit declared. For a canonical preparation, write for the Hamiltonian on the declared fixed-number sector and adopt only when the spectral-calculus exponential has . For a grand-canonical preparation on the declared Fock space, let for a finite-support occupation configuration of Occupation bases and actual CCR/CAR domains and define the particle-number operator by on , as in Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace. Require to be a specified self-adjoint realization of on a stated domain; self-adjointness of and separately does not by itself specify a self-adjoint domain for their difference. For in K, in J K, in J, and chemical potential in J, adopt only when .
For the additive diagonal Fock model, the trace and occupation statements of Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace hold only under that lemma's mode-summability hypotheses and . Under those hypotheses its finite collections of grand-canonical mode occupations are independent. This independence is not asserted for interacting Hamiltonians; conditioning a product grand law on a fixed total number generally couples the modes.
If the spectral law has finite first absolute moment, define the model mean energy by . If the nonzero eigenvalues of , repeated with multiplicity, satisfy , define its von Neumann entropy by , with ; where finite, this is . This postulate does not define Helmholtz free energy, grand potential, or other thermodynamic potentials; model-specific items define them with their own hypotheses. Identifying these quantities with measured macroscopic thermodynamic variables requires a separate physical bridge. No thermalization mechanism, empirical value, or law for a particular material is postulated here.
Controlled dilute Bose/Fermi occupation limit
Conditional mode-by-mode approximation for a trace-class ideal Bose or Fermi grand state with dimensionless fugacities 0<q_j≤r<1 and summable squared fugacities. The occupation and log-partition errors are bounded explicitly. This is a controlled dilute or low-fugacity limit, not a high-temperature criterion, universality statement, interacting-gas result, or empirical observation.
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()), the preparation postulate Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation, and the diagonal grand-trace hypotheses of Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace. Let the mode set be finite or countable, with and . Write and . Then The total mean occupations satisfy The grand log partition factors, with as defined in Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace, obey Consequently, Thus the displayed linear fugacity terms approximate both total mean occupation and log partition with a controlled aggregate error under the stated squared-summability hypothesis.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ; adopted preparation and trace-normalized diagonal occupation law; dimensionless .
Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation: the species sector and normalized grand preparation are adopted assumptions, not mathematical consequences.
Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace, Statement: under its stated summability conditions, bosonic and fermionic marginals have means and , and is the sum of or .
Proof
For bosons, direct subtraction gives ; because , this is nonnegative and at most . For fermions, , which lies between zero and .
The identity follows by integrating the derivative of from zero. Since on , the integral is between zero and . Also , whose integrand lies between zero and , giving the Fermi bound .
Summing the nonnegative mode errors over any finite subset preserves these bounds. Taking the increasing limit over finite subsets gives the same inequalities for the total error because .
By [F1], the log partition function is the sum of the corresponding mode log factors. Sum the nonnegative factor remainders from step 1.2 over finite subsets and pass to the countable limit; squared summability makes each aggregate error finite and proves the claimed controlled first-order approximation.
Exact quantum oscillator and spin ensembles
Exact canonical calculations for the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator with its proved Hermite spectral realization and for a declared independent two-level spin Hamiltonian. The low- and high-temperature limits retain the model's zero-point and ground-degeneracy qualifications. No generic third-law claim, species magnetic moment, material prediction, or measurement is asserted.
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and the preparation postulate Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation. Let in s, in kg, in J s, in J K, and in K; set in joules and in J. Take the self-adjoint one-dimensional realization of on with Hermite eigenvectors , eigenvalues , and domain , as proved in Oscillator scaling and exact realization. Declare this oscillator to be a fixed-number QSM model with particle number and mode set in its usual order. The unitary , , identifies its one-particle sector with this realization; the symmetric and antisymmetric one-particle sectors coincide. Adopt the canonical preparation when its trace is positive and finite. Define when its absolute energy moment is finite, at fixed , and when its eigenvalue entropy sum is finite. Then Its entropy is ; as , , . As , .
For a separate two-level spin model, let with its standard orthonormal basis, define on its full domain , and set for in joules. Declare this separate QSM model to be its fixed sector with two ordered modes , identified with by the coordinate basis, and adopt when . Define by the same mean, fixed- temperature derivative, and entropy formulas. Then , , , and as when , whereas when . These results make no generic third-law claim.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , in J, in J, and the adopted state assignment.
Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation: on each explicitly declared fixed-number QSM sector above, adopt canonical Gibbs preparation when the corresponding trace is positive and finite. This is a physical assumption, not a consequence of the energy spectrum.
Oscillator scaling and exact realization, Statement: the oscillator has the complete Hermite eigenbasis, eigenvalues , and exact squared-weight self-adjoint domain.
Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace, Statement: a positive summable diagonal Boltzmann trace normalizes the occupation weights; its moment identities apply when the relevant sums converge.
Proof
The oscillator eigenvalues from [F1] give levels for the declared Hamiltonian. Since , summing the geometric series yields , finite and positive; the domain and spectral realization are those of [F1], so this sum is the trace of the declared Gibbs multiplier.
The normalized probabilities are . Differentiating the convergent geometric series, or multiplying its absolutely convergent power series by , gives and . Therefore and differentiating with respect to using gives the displayed .
Since , . Substituting gives the stated entropy. As , , so , , and both and tend to zero; hence .
Set . Taylor's formula for at zero gives , so as . Multiplying by in cancels the constant halves and yields .
The spin eigenvalues are and , so its normalized Gibbs probabilities are and . Their sum gives ; their energy mean is and variance . Multiplying the variance by gives the displayed heat capacity. If , one probability tends one and the other zero, so the two-state entropy tends zero; if , both probabilities equal at all temperatures and .
Finite spectral periodic Bose/Fermi gas
A finite-volume ideal gas defined spectrally on the integer momentum labels of a periodic box, with dispersion alpha|2pi k/L|^2 and a finite internal degeneracy g. It proves finite grand trace, exact mode means and continuum density/energy limits for fixed mu<0 in the Bose case or finite mu in the Fermi case. It does not identify this spectral definition with a differential operator domain, claim a finite-volume phase transition, or establish an empirical gas model.
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and adopt the model preparation of Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation. Let , in m, in kg, in J s, in J K, and in K. Put , , , and let count distinct internal modes. Put , enumerated by increasing , then lexicographically in and increasingly in . Define the one-particle Hilbert space with coordinate basis . Its spectral energy multiplier is for , on the maximal domain ; the real diagonal multiplier is self-adjoint on this domain by the coordinate adjoint calculation in Step 2.1 of Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace.
Let be the finite-support maps , and let be the finite-support maps , with occupation bases of the Bose or Fermi Fock space as in Occupation bases and actual CCR/CAR domains. Use for bosons and for fermions. Define the finite sums and , and the mode occupation random variables . The diagonal many-body Hamiltonian and total number operators act by and on their maximal domains as self-adjoint operators on those domains by Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace.
For bosons take ; for fermions take any finite . In either case the grand trace is finite and positive, and its normalized occupation law is . For a -integrable real random variable , write ; if has finite second moment, set . In particular, and . Under this additive diagonal Hamiltonian its mode occupations are independent, and with the upper sign choice in the denominator interpreted as for bosons and for fermions (equivalently the variance is for bosons and for fermions). For fixed in these regimes, as , The continuum limits are conditional model deductions; they assert no thermalization or measured density.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ; in J m, in m, and in J, in J, in K, in J K, and in m.
Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation: Bose/Fermi sector selection and the trace-Gibbs preparation are adopted; a finite positive trace is required.
Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace, Statement: the displayed diagonal multiplier has the exact domains, trace products, marginals, independence, and mode mean/variance formulas under its q-summability hypotheses.
Lattice Gaussian Riemann limits and the singular Bose endpoint, Statement: Gaussian lattice sums and polynomially weighted occupation sums are finite, and their scaled Riemann sums converge for in the Bose case and finite in the Fermi case.
Proof
Set and . The Gaussian lattice bound from [F2] gives . For bosons, , so the uniform gap and summability hypotheses in [F1] hold. For fermions they hold with ; only finitely many modes have , since that inequality confines to a bounded ball in the discrete lattice. The one-particle real diagonal multiplier has the stated weighted-square domain by the coefficient and adjoint test in [F1].
Apply [F1] to these exact mode weights. Its finite positive product is the trace of ; normalization yields the stated independent geometric or Bernoulli mode laws. The means and variances are those displayed in the Statement.
With , one has . Therefore and . Both limits follow from [F2], using weights and . The polynomial tail bound also makes these number and energy densities finite.
Ideal Fermi continuum and zero-temperature endpoint
The continuum grand-state density and energy and its fixed-density zero-temperature endpoint for a three-dimensional homogeneous ideal Fermi dispersion alpha|k|^2 with finite internal degeneracy g. The zero-temperature results are conditional ideal-gas predictions, with no Sommerfeld expansion, material-specific model, or reported observation.
Statement
Assume (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and use the ideal spectral gas model of Finite spectral periodic Bose/Fermi gas, specializing to , a positive integer internal degeneracy , and . For finite and , the continuum number and energy densities are For each and there is a unique giving that density. As , and , where The ideal grand thermodynamic pressure defined by satisfies ; hence its zero-temperature endpoint is .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , the periodic ideal-gas preparation, dimensionless integer , in J m, in kg, in J s, wave vector in m, and in J, density in m, energy density in J m, pressure in Pa, and in J.
Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation: grand Gibbs preparation and fermionic sector are adopted model assumptions.
Finite spectral periodic Bose/Fermi gas, Statement: the finite-volume model and its continuum density/energy integrals are the Riemann limits of the exact diagonal grand-state traces.
Lattice Gaussian Riemann limits and the singular Bose endpoint, Statement: Gaussian tails with polynomial weights are integrable and uniform on compact finite- parameter sets, which supplies the integrable far-tail bounds below.
Proof
Under the adopted preparation [A1] and the exact periodic continuum state [F1], for fixed , the integrand is continuous in and strictly increases at every with . The Gaussian tail bound from [F2] is uniform when ranges over a compact interval, so the integral is continuous in . As , the pointwise bound makes . As , on the ball the occupation is at least ; the ball volume tends infinity, so . Strict monotonicity and the intermediate value theorem give a unique chemical potential for every positive .
Fix and let . Off any annulus , the Fermi occupation converges uniformly on bounded sets to the indicator of , since the exponent has a positive gap from zero there. The annulus volume tends zero with and the occupation is bounded by one, so its number and bounded-energy contributions vanish as . Fix in J. For sufficiently large, and, for every , . The latter Gaussian and its energy-weighted counterpart are integrable and bound the respective number and energy tails uniformly for . Splitting into the bounded region and this tail proves convergence of both integrals to their filled-ball integrals.
Spherical integration of the limiting indicator gives and . Solving gives the displayed . For any , the zero-temperature limits at and strictly bracket ; for sufficiently large the finite-temperature densities at these endpoints still bracket , so step 1.1 traps between them. The energy density is increasing in pointwise; therefore . Step 1.2 gives the limits of both bounds, and continuity of as proves .
Let . Then . The boundary term vanishes at and at infinity, the latter because . Integration by parts on followed by gives . Substitution into the radial definitions of and gives . Passing to the limit in step 2.1 yields . These are ideal-model predictions; no material pressure is inferred.
Dimension-restricted fixed-mean-density Bose condensation
A sequence of three-dimensional or dimension-d ideal, homogeneous, quadratic-dispersion grand states on periodic boxes whose chemical potentials are chosen to hold the mean particle density fixed. It proves the critical density, dimension restriction, and grand-ensemble zero-mode nonconcentration. It does not assert canonical-ensemble equivalence, trapping, interactions, superfluidity, a finite-volume phase transition, or empirical condensation.
Statement
Assume (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and adopt the homogeneous periodic Bose model of Finite spectral periodic Bose/Fermi gas with one internal mode (), dimension , , fixed in J and target mean number density in m. Let in K, with in J K. For each side length in m, put in m and choose the unique solving Let be the Bose occupation configuration set and define the grand probability law which is finite and positive by Explicit diagonal Fock domains and occupation trace under and its stated mode hypotheses. The zero-mode occupation random variable is . For a -integrable real random variable write ; when its second moment is finite write . Say this model has mean zero-mode condensation when ; this limit, when it exists, is the mean condensate density. Define the mean condensed fraction by when the limit exists. Define for and . The critical density is an extended nonnegative number, with ; this series diverges and for , while for it equals . For , for every finite . For , , so mean zero-mode condensation occurs exactly when . When , , in m, and for the mean condensed fraction is . At fixed , this holds for and .
If and , for every in m the grand-state ground occupation satisfies For a real random-variable family with laws , convergence in probability to a constant means as for every (in the same units as ). In particular does not converge in probability to its mean limit in this grand ensemble.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: ; in kg, in J s, in J K, in K, in m; in J m, in J, continuum wave vector in m, in m, in m, and the one-mode-per-momentum grand preparation.
Quantum statistics and model equilibrium preparation: the bosonic grand Gibbs state is an adopted preparation when its trace is finite.
Finite spectral periodic Bose/Fermi gas, Statement: for , mode means are geometric, the finite-volume trace is finite, and scaled occupation sums converge at fixed chemical potential.
Lattice Gaussian Riemann limits and the singular Bose endpoint, Statement: the Bose endpoint integral is the extended value in every dimension, finite exactly for ; for its continuum integrals increase to this endpoint value, and for the missing-origin lattice sums converge to it.
Proof
Under the adopted grand preparation [A1] and periodic mode trace [F1], the finite-volume density as a function of is continuous: on each compact subinterval of , the Gaussian trace bound gives a uniform summable majorant for its mode series. It is strictly increasing because every summand is. As it tends zero by that same Gaussian bound; as , the term diverges. The intermediate value theorem therefore gives exactly one for each .
At fixed , the continuum density is by [F1]. It is continuous and strictly increasing in by a compact-parameter Gaussian bound and pointwise strict increase. It tends zero as by , and increases to as by monotone convergence [F2]. Thus when , runs continuously from zero to infinity; when it runs from zero to .
If (which covers every finite for ), choose the unique with . For any , fixed- convergence from [F1] implies that for all sufficiently large , the finite-volume densities at and bracket . Strict monotonicity then traps between them. Shrinking the bracket proves . The ground occupation is , which stays bounded as ; dividing by gives zero.
Suppose and . For any , if along arbitrarily large , monotonicity bounds the finite-volume density by its value at ; fixed-chemical-potential convergence would then give , contradiction. Thus . Let be the density excluding . Since , each excited occupation is at most its value at zero chemical potential, and [F2] gives . For any fixed , eventually , so monotonicity and [F1] give . Let and use step 1.2 to get the matching lower bound . Hence and . At equality this limit is zero.
In , evaluate by the series in [F2]: . Substituting gives . Solving and using gives the stated ; for , division of by gives .
For , step 2.2 gives . Write . The geometric ground-mode law from [F1] has , so . Its parameter is , and the geometric tail is . Since , this tail tends . Taking gives , which rules out convergence in probability to . This concerns only the ideal grand ensemble; the proof supplies no canonical equivalence or superfluidity claim.
5 · Examples, experiments and counterexamples
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