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arXiv:2610.16889

Thermal aliases in quantum noise: sampling clocks and pulse widths

Zi-Xuan Wang, Xiu-Hao Deng

quant-phphysics.comp-phSubmitted Oct 12, 2026• Announced Oct 13, 2026• 0 citations
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Can collective quantum-noise measurements distinguish different mode temperatures from one common temperature when the coupling spectrum is unknown? For stationary Gaussian oscillator environments, we derive a sharp bandwidth threshold for an exact thermal alias on the integer-time sampling lattice. The threshold depends on temperature order through the quantum response. For frequencies within the first alias period, fixing sufficient integer-time correlations makes one additional fractional-time fluctuation observation enough to exclude every common-temperature fit. A calibrated second pulse width provides another route through the same collective port: both widths must probe one spectrum and retain their measured variance scales. For a specified two-mode example, continuous-frequency certificates cover all common temperatures and uncertainty in a shared pulse ramp. A binary-readout protocol combines randomly interleaved matched references with collective-variance and coherence checks to handle Gaussian oscillator loss and predictable readout drift. The selected fractional-clock and two-width designs require approximately $3.8\times10^7$ and $1.6\times10^8$ outcomes for at most 5\% type-I error and at least 95\% power on the stated alternative class. These theoretical and numerical acquisition guarantees assume independently validated preparation, spectral support and control specifications; validation costs are additional. The result identifies which new observation makes thermal-model testing informative when mode-resolved access is unavailable.

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Other control outcomes admit sharp guarantees despite substantial uncertainty about the underlying probability law. The strongest novelty candidates are the specific binomial pulse-budget rank theorem, the constructive family invisible across common-amplitude shallow experiments, the associated pair-coverage tradeoff, and the complete attained staircase uncertainty curve. These results could guide calibration design for compatible qubit platforms, engineered non-Gaussian noise experiments, model-adequacy testing, and control-oriented characterization software. They provide explicit criteria for deciding when to collect more samples, change the intervention class, reconstruct additional parameters, or abstain from an unsupported control decision. Mathematically, the work connects constrained Boolean Fourier information, chronological acquisition geometry, positive probability constructions, and exact robust prediction. 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