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"The Classical Limit" Is Not One Limit ── Equations, Spectrum, Wavefunction, State: the Separator Is What Is Asked to Become Classical ── [Paper 180]

Yuuki Yamagishi

Published Aug 25, 2026• 0 citations
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When someone says take the classical limit, the next question is what is being asked to become classical. Paper 113 wrote that quantum mechanics is a deformation of classical mechanics by Planck's constant and that letting that constant go to zero returns the classical algebra. That is a statement about structures. This paper asks the neighbouring question: does the behaviour return? They are different sentences, and the second has several answers. NO NEW MATHEMATICAL THEOREM AND NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED: Ehrenfest's theorem, Bohr's correspondence principle, the WKB approximation, and the collapse and revival of wavepackets are all standard, and no interpretation of quantum mechanics is judged. Every number was computed for this paper, and no matrix result is quoted unless doubling the basis left it alone. First, the equations. The rate of change of the mean momentum is exactly minus the mean of the force, while the classical equation uses the force at the mean position. These agree exactly when the force is linear, that is when the potential is at most quadratic. For a Gaussian packet of mean seven tenths and standard deviation thirty-five hundredths, the gap was zero for the quadratic, one hundred and twenty-two and a half thousandths for the cubic, and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five hundred-thousandths for the quartic, matching the closed forms exactly. What makes the gap is the width of the packet, and the width is where Planck's constant enters, so the gap is proportional to it. At a fixed time the classical equation is therefore recovered, and that proviso is worth remembering. Second, the spectrum. Bohr said that for large quantum number the frequency radiated on a jump down by one approaches the classical orbital frequency. In hydrogen the ratio of the two runs three, then one and four hundred and six thousandths, then one and fifteen thousandths at a hundred, and one and one and a half thousandths at a thousand, approaching one like one plus three over twice the quantum number. Not once does Planck's constant appear in that ratio. The correspondence principle is not a statement that the constant is small but that the quantum number is large, a different sentence from the first. Nor is it about a single frequency: a jump down by two corresponds to the second harmonic of the orbit and by three to the third, with ratios that were measured separately. Third, the wavefunction. Take the Bohr-Sommerfeld condition with the added one half, the Maslov index, and apply it in the same form to two wells. For the harmonic oscillator the recipe agrees with the matrix eigenvalues to zero error at every level tested, the ground state included. For the quartic well it is never exact, with a relative error of about eighteen hundredths at the ground state falling to about two hundred-thousandths at the fortieth level. Semiclassical is not one condition either: the same recipe means different things in different wells. Fourth, and this is the core. Place a packet at rest in the quartic well and integrate the classical orbit with my own Runge-Kutta scheme. Holding the time fixed and lowering Planck's constant, the difference dies in proportion to it: halving the constant halves the difference, in agreement with the closed form of the first part. Holding the constant fixed and waiting instead, the swing collapses from its full value to about two ten-thousandths, and then comes back to about two thirds of its original size much later, while the classical orbit has not moved at all. So this is not a small correction to an orbit. Both the collapse and the revival come from the level spacing not being uniform, and nothing on the classical side answers to that. Fix the time and take the constant to zero and the answer is classical; fix the constant and take the time to infinity and it is not. This pattern is not new to this corpus. Paper 154 takes two limits failing to commute as its subject and sets zero against a definite magnetisation in the Curie-Weiss magnet. All that is added here is that the same pattern appears at the quantum-classical boundary. Fifth, the survival time is finite all the same. Measuring how long the swing takes to fall below a tenth of its initial value gives values that grow steadily as the constant shrinks, each surviving a doubling of the basis to eleven decimal places. It grows, and only as a power law. Making the constant small postpones the classical orbit's failure rather than preventing it. And Ehrenfest time is itself one name for two behaviours: the short logarithmic one often quoted belongs to chaotic systems, where the spreading is exponential, while this well is integrable and measurement gives a power. The exponent measured here is one packet in one well, not a derived exponent. A census. The equations become classical by Ehrenfest, exactly up to quadratic and spoiled by the width beyond. The spectrum becomes classical by Bohr's correspondence, driven by large quantum number and not by Planck's constant. The wavefunction becomes classical by WKB, exact in one well and asymptotic in another. The state becomes classical by decoherence, in which superposition goes. These four are not a staircase of strength: decoherence makes the state classical without making the equations classical, and as Paper 55 wrote a diagonal density matrix does not say which outcome occurs, while conversely the equations can be classical with superposition surviving. What settles it is what is being asked to be classical. Important (scope note): a census of established standard facts (Layer 2). What is not shown: any new mathematical theorem or physical law, none is claimed; any judgement on interpretations of quantum mechanics; any refutation of Paper 113, since this is a brake and not a refutation; and any novelty for the pattern of two limits failing to commute, which Paper 154 already holds. What is added: setting four limits against one separator, what is being asked to become classical; writing the Ehrenfest gap in closed form and confirming its proportionality in numbers; measuring the rate of the correspondence principle and showing that Planck's constant never enters it; placing one WKB recipe side by side where it is exact and where it is only asymptotic; and measuring the collapse and revival to a precision that survives a doubling of the basis. What remains: when someone says take the classical limit, the next question is what is being asked to become classical. The equations, the spectrum, the wavefunction, or the state all go by the same phrase, hold under different conditions and fail in different places. And the algebra returning does not mean the behaviour returns. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 「古典極限を取る」と言われたら、次に問うべきは「何が古典になれと言われているのか」である。 論文113 は「量子力学は古典力学の ℏ による変形であり、ℏ→0 で古典代数に戻る」と書いた。それは構造についての言明である。本稿は隣の問いを立てる——では振る舞いは戻るのか。二つは別の文であり、後者には答えが複数ある。新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も主張しない:エーレンフェストの定理、ボーアの対応原理、WKB 近似、波束の崩壊と再生は、いずれも標準的な内容である。また量子力学の解釈を判定しない。⚠️ 数値はすべて自前の計算であり、行列の対角化は基底を倍にして答えが動かないことを確かめてから引用した(動いた値は載せていない)。 第一に、方程式である。運動量の平均の時間変化は −⟨V′(x)⟩ に厳密に等しく、古典の式は −V′(⟨x⟩) である。両者が一致するのは V′ が線形のとき、すなわち V が二次までのときに限る。平均 0.7、標準偏差 0.35 のガウス波束で隔たりを測ると、二次では 0、三次では 0.1225(=σ²)、四次では 0.25725(=3μσ²)とぴたり予測どおりであった(本稿で計算)。⭐ 隔たりを作っているのは波束の幅である。そして幅こそが ℏ の入り口である——最小不確定の波束では σ²=ℏ/2 だから、隔たりは ℏ に比例する(ℏ=1, 0.01, 0.0001 で 1.05, 0.0105, 0.000105)。したがって時刻を固定すれば ℏ→0 で古典の式に戻る。⚠️ この但し書きを覚えておきたい。 第二に、スペクトルである。ボーア(1913, 1920)は、量子数が大きいとき n→n−1 の遷移で放射される振動数が古典の公転振動数に近づくと述べた。水素をリュードベリ単位で書けば遷移振動数は 1/(n−1)²−1/n²、n 番目の準位での古典の公転振動数は 2/n³ である。比は n=2 で 3.0、n=5 で 1.40625、n=10 で 1.17283950617、n=100 で 1.01520253035、n=1000 で 1.0015020025、n=10000 で 1.00015002 となり、近づき方は 1+3/(2n) と桁で一致した(本稿で計算)。⭐⭐ この比のどこにも ℏ が現れていない。対応原理は「ℏ が小さい」という言明ではなく、「量子数が大きい」という言明である——第一の ℏ→0 とは別の文なのである。しかも一本の振動数の話ですらない。n→n−k は公転の第 k 高調波に対応し、n=1000 で k=1,2,3 の比は 1.0015020025、1.00300802005、1.00451806774 であった。対応しているのはフーリエ級数の全体である。 第三に、波動関数である。ボーア=ゾンマーフェルトの量子化条件に 1/2 を加えたもの(マスロフ指数)を、二つの井戸に同じ形で当てる。調和振動子では n=0, 1, 5, 20 のいずれでも WKB の値が行列の固有値と誤差ゼロで一致した——基底状態を含め、どの n でも厳密である。ところが四次の井戸ではどの n でも厳密でなく、相対誤差は n=0 で 1.822×10⁻¹、n=1 で 1.257×10⁻²、n=10 で 3.204×10⁻⁴、n=40 で 2.156×10⁻⁵ と、n とともに改善するだけである(本稿で計算)。⭐ 「準古典」も一つの条件ではない。同じ処方が、井戸によって別のことを意味している。 第四に、これが本稿の芯である。四次の井戸に x=1.5 で静止した波束を置き、古典側は ẍ=−4x³ を自前のルンゲ=クッタ法で解く。時刻を t=2 に固定して ℏ を下げると、差は 0.1762、0.1050、0.0581、0.0307 と ℏ に比例して消える(ℏ を半分にすると差も半分——第一の閉じた形と合う)。⭐⭐ ところが ℏ=0.1 に固定して待つと、振れ幅は 1.5 から潰れていき、t=27.50 で 0.000195 に達し、そして t=199.85 で 0.664054 へ戻ってきた。古典の軌道は潰れも戻りもせず、1.4986 から一度も動いていない。したがってこれは軌道への小さな補正ではない。潰れも再生も、準位の間隔が一様でないことから来る——古典の側には対応するものが何も無い。すなわち、時刻を固定して ℏ→0 とすれば古典に戻り、ℏ を固定して t→∞ とすれば戻らない。二つの極限は順序を持って取られ、順序が答を決める。 ⚠️ この型は本体系の新顔ではない。論文154 が「二つの極限が交換しない」を主題にし、キュリー=ワイス磁石で 0 と 0.957504 を並べている。本稿が加えたのは、同じ型が量子と古典の境目にも現れるということだけである。 第五に、それでも存続時間は有限である。振れ幅が最初の十分の一を切るまでの時間を測ると、ℏ=0.4, 0.2, 0.1, 0.05 に対して 8.160、10.640、14.280、19.200 であった(各行とも基底を倍にして 10⁻¹¹ しか動かない)。伸びるが、伸び方は冪則にとどまる(測った両対数の傾きは ℏ の −0.41 乗)。⭐ ℏ を小さくすることは古典の軌道を延命するのであって、永続させはしない。⚠️ そして「エーレンフェスト時間」もまた一語で二つを指している。文献でよく引かれる log(1/ℏ) という短さはカオス系のものであり、広がりが指数的であることから来る。本稿の井戸は可積分であり、測ると冪則になる。⚠️ 上の指数は一つの波束・一つの井戸についての測定値であって、導出した指数ではない。 点呼をしておく。方程式が古典になるのがエーレンフェストで、二次までは厳密、以遠は幅が壊す。スペクトルが古典になるのがボーアの対応原理で、効くのは大きな量子数であって ℏ ではない。波動関数が古典になるのが WKB・準古典で、井戸によって厳密でも漸近でもある。状態が古典になるのがデコヒーレンスで、重ね合わせは消える。⚠️ 四つは強さの階段ではない。デコヒーレンスは状態を古典的にするが方程式を古典化せず(論文55 が書いたとおり、対角的な密度行列はどの結果が実現するかを語らない)、逆に方程式が古典的でも重ね合わせは残りうる。決めているのは、何に対して古典であれと言っているかである。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい数学定理や物理法則(一つもない)/量子力学の解釈の判定(していない)/論文113 への反論(ブレーキであって反論ではない)/「二つの極限が交換しない」という型の新規性(論文154 が既に持っている)。加えたもの:四つを「何が古典になれと言われているか」という一つの分離子に並べたこと、エーレンフェストの隔たりを閉じた形で書いて ℏ 比例を数で確かめたこと、対応原理の近づき方を測

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The separator and the fence. What separates the two kinds of at most is whether the extremiser lies inside the set. It is not the symbol. The fence around this quantity is bounded is over which set the bound is taken, and outside it the same number becomes reachable or unreachable, the same shape as this sequence is random in Paper 223 and volume is conserved in Paper 225. The difference between strictly less and at most is not a question of notation but a question of measurement. Writing the equality is not an assertion but a way of putting the question, the form in which one asks whether this wall can be touched. Paper 16 counted six distinct roots of the equals sign; what this paper counted is two kinds of inequality sign, and the sorting of the symbols is not finished. Important (scope note): a census of established standard facts (Layer 2). What is not shown: any new mathematical theorem or law, none is claimed; the derivation of any bound, only the attainment of equality being measured; completeness of the classification, eleven examples appearing; any general mathematics, whether a supremum is a maximum being a standard distinction in analysis; any rule about notation. What is added: following the Buchdahl central pressure numerically into the limit, confirming minimum uncertainty to fifteen digits, computing the CHSH value and the signalling of a PR box, checking the equality of the means over two hundred thousand random draws, following the Landauer excess out to a million units of time, and tabulating eleven bounds by whether the equality is reached. What remains: when bounds are written, at most and strictly less than are chosen with care, and that choice does not say whether the wall can be touched. Buchdahl's eight ninths is written as at most and no star touches it, since trying makes the pressure at the centre infinite. Landauer's floor is written as at least and no finite time touches it: after a million times as long it is still five ten-thousandths of a per cent above. A gaussian, meanwhile, meets its floor exactly, to fifteen digits. And two root two holds three different standings depending on where one stands: out of reach inside local hidden variables, touched inside quantum mechanics, and not a wall at all inside a no-signalling theory. The number never moved. So writing the equality is not a claim but a way of putting a question, the form in which one asks whether this wall can be touched. And the answer cannot be read off the symbol: one has to build the extremiser and see whether it lies inside the set that was allowed. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 等号を書くことは、主張ではなく問いの立て方である。「この壁に、触れられますか」と尋ねる形式が、等号なのである。そして答は、記号を見ても分からない。 物理の上限を書くとき、我々は「以下」と「未満」を書き分ける。だが紙の上の記号は、その壁に触れられるかを決めていない。本稿は十一の上限について、等号が到達されるかどうかを実際に測る。上限 X ≤ B について、B を実現する配置が存在するとき「到達される」といい、X が B にいくらでも近づけるのに B そのものを取れないとき「到達されない」という。数学では上限が最大値かどうかの区別であり、標準的である。新しい数学定理も新しい法則も主張しない:ブッフダール限界、ツィレルソン限界、PR 箱、最小不確定性状態、ランダウアー限界、チャンドラセカール質量は、いずれも標準的である。⚠️ 上限を導出しない——与えられた上限について等号が到達されるかだけを測る。⚠️ 網羅しない——扱うのは十一の例であり、分類が完全であることは主張しない。⚠️ 数学の一般論を作らない。⚠️ 記号の使い分けを規定しない——「以下と書くべきか未満と書くべきか」は論じない。 ⭐ 既刊との関係を先に書いておく。論文16 は等号に六つの別根があることを示した。本稿は不等号の側であり、同じ記号が二種類の壁を指していることを示す。⭐⭐ 論文21 は「恒等式か仮説かは、どの理論の内側に立つかで決まる」と書いたが、本稿の第5節はその定量版である。論文194 は等号の柵は一つしかないと示し、論文160 は一つの不等式に三つの天井を数えたが、本稿はその天井を触れるか触れないかで分ける。 第一に、触れない壁がある。一様密度の内部シュヴァルツシルト解で中心圧を測ると、コンパクトネスが 0.5 で 0.261204 倍、0.86 で 5.10897 倍、0.888 で 166.666 倍、0.888888 で 166667 倍、0.8888888 で 1.66667×10⁶ 倍と発散する(本稿で計算)。⚠️ ブッフダール限界 8/9 に触れる配置は、そもそも配置ではない。⭐ 形の上では「以下」だが、物理としては「未満」である。 第二に、触れる壁がある。最小不確定性状態(ガウス波束)で測ると、幅 10⁻¹¹、10⁻¹⁰、10⁻⁹ のいずれでも積は 5.272859085000000×10⁻³⁵ であり、ħ/2 との比は 1.000000000000000 であった(本稿で計算)。⭐ 十五桁で厳密に等号である。コーシー=シュワルツの等号条件は「二つのベクトルが比例すること」であり、それを満たす状態が実在する——しかも一つではなく族として。なお相加平均と相乗平均の等号は全部の数が等しいときに限り、0.5 から 4 の一様乱数で三つ組を 200000 回作ると等号は 0 回であった。⭐ 到達されるが、到達する集合の確率は零である。 第三に、私の見立ては外れた。初版で「CHSH の代数的天井 4 は無信号条件が禁じている」と書いたが、実際に PR 箱を組んで測ると、CHSH 値は 4.000000000000、その信号伝達は最大でも 0 であった(本稿で計算)。⚠️ 見込みは外れた。PR 箱は無信号でありながら 4 にちょうど到達する——⭐ 4 を禁じているのは相対論ではなく、量子力学のほうであった。 第四に、これが本稿の芯である。三つの天井を、立つ場所ごとに点呼した。量子の最大値は実測 2.828427124746(2√2=2.828427124746)。局所隠れた変数の内側に立てば、2 は到達するが 2√2 も 4 も不可能である。量子力学の内側に立てば、2 も 2√2 も到達し、4 は不可能である。無信号理論の内側に立てば、三つとも到達する(本稿で計算)。⭐⭐⭐ 2√2 は、触れる壁でもあり、届かない壁でもあり、そもそも壁ですらない。変わったのは数ではない——⚠️ 変わっ

•Aug 27, 2026•0 citations

Quantum Mechanics

John R. Klauder

WHAT TO LOOK FOR Although the classical theory developed in Chapter 2 can be used to describe a great many phenomena in the real world, there is little doubt that the proper description of the world is quantum. To a large measure we perceive the world classically and we must find ways to uncover the underlying quantum theory. The process of “quantization” normally consists of turning a classical theory into a corresponding quantum theory. In turn, the “classical limit” is the process by which a quantum theory is brought to its associated classical theory. The parameter ħ = 1.0545 × 10 −27 (≃ 10 −27 ) erg-seconds (cgs units), referred to as Planck's constant, sets the scale of quantum phenomena. In many applications it will prove useful to use “natural” units in which ħ = 1 just so that formulas are less cumbersome. For most typical formulations of quantum mechanics the classical limit means the limit that ħ → 0, and in this text we shall have many occasions to use this definition as well. In addition, we shall also learn to speak about the classical and quantum theories simultaneously coexisting – as they do in the real world – without the need to take the limit ħ → 0. There are three generally accepted “royal” routes to quantization, due principally to Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Feynman, respectively, and we shall exploit them all. In each case we begin with a single degree of freedom ( N = 1).

Cambridge University Press eBooks•Nov 11, 1999•0 citations

What is the limit ℏ → of quantum theory?

U. Klein

An analysis is made of the relation between quantum theory and classical mechanics, in the context of the limit ℏ→0. Several ways in which this limit may be performed are considered. It is shown that Schrödinger's equation for a single particle moving in an external potential V does not, except in special cases, lead, in this limit, to Newton's equation of motion for the particle. This shows that classical mechanics cannot be regarded as emerging from quantum mechanics—at least in this sense—upon straightforward application of the limit ℏ→0.

arXiv:1201.0150•American Journal of Physics•Oct 17, 2012•31 citations

A Census of the Twos ── What Must Be Moved for Each 2 to Move: the Dimension, the Roughness, the Assumed Error Law ── and the Ones That Do Not Move ── [Paper 157]

Yuuki Yamagishi

A census of the twos - one shape of exponent, arriving from this many different places. This corpus has met the exponent 2 in many places. Each has been written about separately, but no paper has yet called them all by name at once. This one does, using a single test: what must be moved for that 2 to move? NO NEW MATHEMATICAL THEOREM AND NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED. The inverse-square law, the Born rule, Ito's lemma, maximum likelihood and Clifford algebras are all standard. Nor does this paper retract anything the corpus has said about the individual twos. First, the 2 of the inverse square is d minus one. A spherically symmetric harmonic function in d dimensions satisfies a second-order ordinary differential equation, and reading off the exponent of the force gives one in two dimensions, two in three, three in four, four in five and five in six. The 2 of the inverse square is simply d minus one read at three dimensions. What must be moved is the spatial dimension (Papers 01 and 156). Second, Born's 2 does not move with the dimension, and what fixes it is unitarity. Draw a random unitary matrix and a random unit vector, and ask whether the sum of the p-th powers of the absolute values of the components changes. At p of one the largest change is 0.6698, at 1.5 it is 0.2279, at 2.5 it is 0.1798, at three 0.4248 and at four 0.4364. But at p of two it is 8.882 times ten to the minus sixteen - machine precision (computed here, worst case over four hundred draws in six dimensions). Holding p at two and changing the dimension of the Hilbert space to two, three, five, eight and thirteen leaves the change at order ten to the minus fifteen throughout. What must be moved is therefore not the dimension but the demand that time evolution be unitary. This paper does not call that a derivation of the Born rule: the derivation is Gleason's theorem (Paper 71), whose assumptions are far weaker than a random trial. What is shown here is only the step before - with any other exponent, probability is not conserved at all. Third, Ito's 2 moves with the roughness of the path. Generating fractional Brownian motion of Hurst exponent H exactly and measuring the quadratic variation as the mesh is refined, theory predicts a scaling of n to the one minus two H. The measured slopes were 0.5965 at H of 0.2, 0.3028 at 0.35, 0.0046 at 0.5, minus 0.3081 at 0.65 and minus 0.5917 at 0.8, agreeing with the predicted 0.60, 0.30, 0.00, minus 0.30 and minus 0.60 to within 0.01 (computed here). The quadratic variation is finite and non-zero only at one half. What must be moved is the roughness of the path, not the spatial dimension (Paper 132). Fourth, and this is what is new here. The 2 of least squares is the assumed error law itself. Minimising the sum of the p-th powers of the residuals is maximum likelihood for errors whose density is proportional to the exponential of minus the absolute residual to the p, so p of two corresponds to the Gaussian and one to the Laplace law. The exponent is therefore not a property of the data but the name of an assumption. With a true location of 3.0, forty points and two thousand repetitions: under Gaussian errors the p of two estimator gives 0.1565 against 0.1983 and wins; under Laplace errors p of one gives 0.1782 against 0.2199 and wins; and under Cauchy errors p of one gives 0.2632 while p of two gives 128.3741 - a factor of about five hundred (computed here). The exponent that wins matches the exponent of the law that generated the data. The gap under Cauchy noise is not a loss of accuracy but a breakdown of the estimator: the Cauchy law has no variance, so minimising a sum of squares has lost its meaning. It is the same shape of failure that Paper 129 described when it wrote that the variance form of the uncertainty relation says nothing once the variance diverges. So the 2 of least squares has a distinct root from the inverse square, from Born and from Ito - what must be moved is neither the dimension nor the roughness but the probability law one assumed. Fifth, Clifford's 2 cannot be moved. The defining relation of a Clifford algebra is that a vector squared equals the value of the quadratic form, and in the Pauli algebra each of the three squares minus the identity is exactly the zero matrix. There is no parameter here to turn: replacing the 2 does not give a different Clifford algebra, it gives no Clifford algebra (the same shape as epsilon squared being zero as a definition of a ring, in Papers 104 and 148). The census. The inverse-square 2 moves with the spatial dimension, has general form d minus one, and lives in harmonicity. Born's 2 moves with nothing, being held by unitarity. Ito's 2 moves with the roughness and is finite only at one half. The least-squares 2 moves with the assumed error law, its general form being the exponent in the density. Clifford's 2 cannot be moved, being a definition. Fourier's one half likewise does not move, arriving as the value of an extremum. One question, three answers, and three cases of nothing at all - and the three nothings are not the same either: Born's is held by a uniqueness theorem, Clifford's by a definition, and Fourier's arrives as an extremal value. The verdict is the same and the reason for it is different in all three. IMPORTANT (scope): a census of established standard material (Layer 2). What is not claimed: any new mathematical theorem or physical law (there is none) / any retraction of what the corpus has said about the individual twos (there is none). What is added: calling five twos by name under one test, showing in numbers that unitarity selects p equal to two uniquely, measuring the slope of the quadratic variation against one minus two H, and giving the 2 of least squares its address as an assumed error law, exhibited as a factor of five hundred under Cauchy noise. What remains: one shape of exponent, arriving from this many different places. On meeting a 2, the question to ask is not why two but what would have to move for it to stop being two. Only when that question has no answer may the 2 be written down as something that does not move. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 二乗の点呼——同じ形の指数が、これだけ違う場所から来ている。 この体系は、あちこちで指数 2 に出会ってきた。個々の 2 については書いてきたが、横断して点呼した稿がまだ無い。本稿はそれを、一つの試験——何を動かせばその 2 が動くか——で行う。新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も主張しない。逆二乗則、ボルン則、伊藤の補題、最尤推定、クリフォード代数は、いずれも標準的な内容である。⚠️ また本稿は、個々の 2 について体系が既に書いたことを撤回しない。 第一に、逆二乗の 2 は d マイナス 1 である。d 次元の球対称な調和関数は二階の常微分方程式を満たし、解いて力の指数を読むと、二次元で 1、三次元で 2、四次元で 3、五次元で 4、六次元で 5 となる。逆二乗の 2 は、d マイナス 1 を三次元で読んだ値にすぎない。動かすべきものは空間次元である(論文01・論文156)。 第二に、ボルンの 2 は次元では動かない。そして動かしているのはユニタリ性である。n 次元のユニタリ行列と単位ベクトルを無作為に取り、成分の絶対値の p 乗の和がユニタリ変換で変わるかを見る。p が 1 なら最大変化は 0.6698、1.5 なら 0.2279、2.5 なら 0.1798、3 なら 0.4248、4 なら 0.4364。ところが p が 2 のときだけ 8.882 かける十のマイナス十六乗——機械精度である(本稿で計算、六次元・四百組の最悪値)。さらに p を 2 に固定したままヒルベルト空間の次元を 2・3・5・8・13 と変えても、変化は十のマイナス十五乗台のまま動かない。すなわち動かすべきものは空間次元ではなく、時間発展がユニタリであるという要求のほうである。⚠️ 本稿はこれをボルン則の導出とは呼ばない。導出はグリーソンの定理が与えており(論文71)、そこでの仮定は本稿の無作為試験より遥かに弱い。本稿が示したのは「他の指数ではそもそも確率が保たれない」という、一段手前の事実だけである。 第三に、伊藤の 2 は道の粗さで動く。ハースト指数 H の非整数ブラウン運動を厳密に生成し、二次変分を刻み幅を細かくしながら測る。理論では n の 1 マイナス 2H 乗で振る舞うはずで、実際に測った傾きは H が 0.2 で 0.5965、0.35 で 0.3028、0.5 で 0.0046、0.65 でマイナス 0.3081、0.8 でマイナス 0.5917。予測値である 1 マイナス 2H の 0.60・0.30・0.00・マイナス0.30・マイナス0.60 と、いずれも 0.01 以内で一致した(本稿で計算)。二次変分が有限かつ非零であるのは H が二分の一のときだけである。動かすべきものは道の粗さであって、空間次元ではない(論文132)。 第四に、これが本稿の新しい部分である。最小二乗の 2 は、仮定した誤差則そのものである。残差の絶対値の p 乗の和を最小化することは、密度が指数マイナス絶対値 r の p 乗に比例する誤差についての最尤推定と同じである。p が 2 ならガウス、1 ならラプラスに対応する。したがって p はデータの性質ではなく、置いた仮定の名前である。真の位置を 3.0 とし四十点の標本を二千回引いて確かめると、ガウス誤差では p が 2 の推定量が 0.1565、1 が 0.1983 で 2 の勝ち。ラプラス誤差では 1 が 0.1782、2 が 0.2199 で 1 の勝ち。そしてコーシー誤差では 1 が 0.2632 なのに対し、2 は 128.3741——約五百倍の差である(本稿で計算)。勝つ指数は、データを生んだ法則の指数と一致する。 コーシーでの差は精度の劣化ではなく、推定量が破綻しているということである。コーシー分布は分散を持たないので、二乗を最小にするという方針そのものが意味を失う。論文129 が「分散が発散すれば分散版の不確定性は何も言っていない」と書いたのと、同じ形の失敗である。したがって最小二乗の 2 は、逆二乗の 2 とも、ボルンの 2 とも、伊藤の 2 とも別根である——動かすべきものは、次元でも粗さでもなく、置いた確率分布である。 第五に、クリフォードの 2 は動かせない。クリフォード代数の定義関係は「ベクトルの二乗が二次形式の値に等しい」であり、パウリ行列で確かめると三つとも二乗から単位行列を引いてちょうど零行列になる。ここには動かすべき径数が存在しない。2 を替えても「別のクリフォード代数」にはならず、クリフォード代数でなくなるだけである(論文104・論文148 の「イプシロンの二乗がゼロなのは環の定義」と同じ型)。 点呼をしておく。逆二乗の 2 は空間次元で動き、一般形は d マイナス 1、住所は調和性。ボルンの 2 は何も動かず、ユニタリ性が固定している。伊藤の 2 は道の粗さで動き、有限になるのは H が二分の一のときだけ。最小二乗の 2 は仮定した誤差則で動き、一般形は指数関数の肩の p。クリフォードの 2 は環の定義ゆえ動かせない。フーリエの二分の一も動かず、極値の値として出る。すなわち一つの問いに、三つの答えと、三つの「該当なし」がある。しかもその三つの「該当なし」も互いに同じではない——ボルンの 2 は一意性定理が固定し、クリフォードの 2 は定義が固定し、フーリエの二分の一は極値の値として出る。動かないという結果が同じでも、動かない理由は三つとも違う。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も(一つもない)/個々の 2 についての過去の記述の撤回(一つもない)。加えたもの:五つの 2 を一つの試験で横断点呼したこと、ユニタリ性が p を 2 に一意に選ぶことを数で示したこと、二次変分の傾きが 1 マイナス 2H に一致することを測ったこと、最小二乗の 2 が「仮定した誤差則」であると住所を書きコーシー分布で五百倍の差として見せたこと。残るもの:同じ形の指数が、これだけ違う場所から来ている。2 を見たときに問うべきなのは「なぜ 2 なのか」ではなく、何を動かせばそれが 2 でなくなるのか、である。その問いに答えが無いとき——そのときだけ、その 2 は動かないものとして書いてよい。 作成にあたって:本稿の着想と内容は、著者自身の考察に基づくものです。文章の構成整理や英訳、数式の確認には AI(大規模言語モデル)の助力を得ました。最終的な内容の解釈や誤りがあれば、それらはすべて著者の責に帰します。お気づきの点があれば、ご教示いただければ幸いです。

•Aug 25, 2026•0 citations

The Whole Can Be Better Known Than Its Parts ── The von Neumann Entropy as a Third Address: What It Means for a Conditional Entropy to Be Negative ── [Paper 162]

Yuuki Yamagishi

There are states about which the whole is completely known and the parts are not known at all. Paper 88 wrote that under the single word entropy there are two different quantities, the coarse-grained one and the horizon-area one. This paper adds a third address: the von Neumann entropy. NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED. The von Neumann entropy, subadditivity, the Araki-Lieb triangle inequality and the negativity of the conditional entropy are all standard. Nothing in Paper 88 is retracted: the separation of the two entropies stands, and a third is simply added. First, it is not Shannon's entropy quantised. Shannon's entropy requires a probability distribution, and a quantum state does not come with one, since a different distribution appears for each basis one measures in. Collecting the Shannon quantity over twenty thousand measurement bases for random single-qubit mixed states, the value measured in the eigenbasis equalled the von Neumann entropy to machine precision, with a difference of zero in all four cases, while random bases only approached it from above. The von Neumann entropy is therefore the smallest Shannon quantity obtainable by measurement: in any other basis, more disorder is reported than the state actually holds. The two start from different data - Shannon is handed a distribution and returns a number, while von Neumann is handed a state and chooses the distribution himself. Second, unitary evolution does not change it at all. Over four thousand random four-dimensional density matrices and random unitaries, the largest change was 2.33 times ten to the minus fifteen. It is exactly conserved for a closed system. So the von Neumann entropy cannot by itself be the arrow of time: the arrow requires something non-unitary, a partial trace, a measurement or a coarse-graining (Papers 77, 78 and 88). Third, and this is the core. The whole can carry less than a part. For the singlet state the entropy of the pair is zero, being a pure state, while either half alone has entropy 0.6931471806, that is the natural logarithm of two. Classically this cannot happen: drawing two hundred thousand random two-by-two joint distributions and measuring the entropy of the whole minus the larger of the two parts, the smallest value found was 0.007226 and it was never once negative. Classically, knowing the whole includes knowing the parts; quantum mechanically it does not, and there are states about which the pair is completely known and either half alone is not known at all. This is not a statement that quantum systems are more disordered: an entropy of zero for the pair says there is no disorder whatever. It says only that the information has been placed in the correlation rather than in the parts. Fourth, the conditional entropy therefore turns negative. For the singlet it is minus 0.6931471806, that is minus the logarithm of two, while over the same two hundred thousand classical draws the smallest value was 0.009555. The classical conditional entropy is bounded below by zero and the quantum one reaches minus the logarithm of two - the two do not even share a sign convention, being written with the same symbol and called by the same name while having different ranges. Negative entropy is not a figure of speech but has an operational meaning, readable as a resource for future use in quantum state merging; this paper does not enter that interpretation, since what can be written is that the value is negative, and its address. Fifth, what stands in its place. Over twenty thousand random two-qubit states of random rank, subadditivity and the Araki-Lieb triangle inequality were violated zero times, and the singlet lies exactly on the boundary of the triangle inequality, the difference between the parts being zero and the whole being zero as well. The classical inequality is not weakened but replaced. The census. The coarse-grained entropy lives in the observer's resolution and is moved by changing the coarse-graining (Papers 77, 78, 88). The horizon-area entropy lives in the boundary area and dimension and is moved by changing the area (Papers 73, 88). The von Neumann entropy lives in the spectrum of the density matrix and is moved only by a non-unitary operation. Three quantities under one word: the first lives in the observer, the second in the boundary, and the third in the state itself. Of the three, only the third is unchanged by the passage of time. Entanglement entropy is known to obey an area law in field theory, so there is a rhyme between the third and the second. This paper does not write that they share a root: one is fixed by the choice of subsystem, the other by geometry. The line Paper 88 drew, that the only relation is a bound, is not crossed here either. IMPORTANT (scope): a census of established standard material (Layer 2). What is not claimed: any new physical law (there is none) / any retraction of Paper 88 (there is none) / an interpretation of negative entropy (not entered). What is added: measuring that the eigenbasis Shannon quantity equals the von Neumann entropy, checking unitary invariance numerically, confirming on two hundred thousand samples that the classical inequality never fails and setting it against the quantum minus logarithm of two, and writing for each of the three entropies what must be moved for it to move. What remains: there are states about which the whole is completely known and the parts are not known at all. In classical language that sentence contradicts itself. It does not contradict itself because the information has been placed not in the parts but between them. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 全体について完全に知っていながら、部分については何も知らない——そういう状態がある。 論文88 は「エントロピー」という一語のもとに二つの別物——粗視化のものと地平線の面積のもの——があると書いた。本稿は第三の住所を加える:フォン・ノイマンのエントロピーである。新しい物理法則は主張しない。フォン・ノイマンのエントロピー、劣加法性、荒木=リーブの三角不等式、条件付きエントロピーの負値は、いずれも標準的な内容である。⚠️ また論文88 の内容を撤回しない——二つのエントロピーの分離はそのままで、三つ目を足すだけである。 第一に、これはシャノンを「量子化」したものではない。シャノンのエントロピーには確率分布が要る。ところが量子状態には、分布が一つ付いてはいない——どの基底で測るかによって違う分布が出るからである。無作為な一量子ビットの混合状態について二万通りの基底で測ってみると、固有基底で測ったときのシャノン量がフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーに機械精度で一致し(四例とも差ゼロ)、無作為な基底は上からしか近づかなかった。すなわちフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは「測ったときのシャノン量の最小値」である。どの基底で測っても、状態が実際に持っている以上の乱雑さが報告される。⭐ 出発点が違うのである——シャノンは分布を渡されて数を返し、フォン・ノイマンは状態を渡されて分布そのものを自分で選ぶ。 第二に、ユニタリ発展では一切変わらない。四次元の無作為な密度行列と無作為なユニタリを四千組取って測ると、最大変化は 2.33 かける十のマイナス十五乗であった。閉じた量子系では厳密に保存される。ゆえにフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは、それ自体では時間の矢になりえない——矢が要るのは非ユニタリな操作、すなわち部分トレース・測定・粗視化のほうである(論文77・78・88)。 第三に、これが本稿の芯である。全体のほうが部分より小さいことがある。一重項状態では、二つ合わせた系のエントロピーがゼロ(純粋状態)なのに、片方だけを見るとその値は 0.6931471806、すなわち ln 2 になる。古典では起こりえない:二かける二の同時分布を二十万個無作為に引いて、全体のエントロピーから部分の大きいほうを引いた値を測ると、最小でも 0.007226 で、一度も負にならなかった。古典では、全体を知ることは部分を知ることを含む。量子ではそうならない——二つを合わせた系については完全に知っていて、片方だけを見ると何も知らない、という状態が存在する。⚠️ ただしこれは「量子のほうが乱雑だ」という話ではない。全体のエントロピーがゼロとは、乱雑さが皆無だということである。情報が部分にではなく相関の側に置かれている、というだけである。 第四に、したがって条件付きエントロピーが負になる。一重項では、全体から部分を引いて マイナス 0.6931471806、すなわち マイナス ln 2 である。同じ二十万個の古典分布では最小でも 0.009555 だった。古典の条件付きエントロピーは下からゼロで抑えられ、量子のそれは マイナス ln 2 に届く——二つは符号の約束すら共有していない。同じ記号で書かれ、同じ名前で呼ばれているが、値域が違う。⚠️ なお「負のエントロピー」は言葉の綾ではなく操作的な意味を持つ(量子状態併合における「将来使える資源」として読める)が、本稿はその解釈には立ち入らない。書けるのは、値が負になるという事実と、その住所までである。 第五に、代わりに何が残るか。無作為な二量子ビット状態を二万個(階数も無作為に)取って調べると、劣加法性も荒木=リーブの三角不等式も破れがゼロだった。しかも一重項は三角不等式の境界にちょうど乗っている(部分どうしの差がゼロ、全体もゼロ)。古典の不等式は弱められたのではなく、別の不等式に置き換わっているのである。 点呼をしておく。粗視化のエントロピーは観測者の解像度に住み、動かすには粗視化を変える(論文77・78・88)。地平線の面積エントロピーは境界の面積と次元に住み、動かすには面積を変える(論文73・88)。フォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは密度行列のスペクトルに住み、動かすには非ユニタリな操作が要る。一語の下に三つの量があり、一つ目は観測者に、二つ目は境界に、そして三つ目は状態そのものに住んでいる。三つのうち、時間の経過で変わらないのは三つ目だけである。 ⚠️ 絡み合いエントロピーが場の理論で面積則を示すことは知られており、三つ目と二つ目のあいだに韻がある。だが本稿はそれを同根とは書かない——片方は部分系の選び方で決まり、他方は幾何が決める。論文88 が「結ぶのは上限だけ」と書いた線を、ここでも越えない。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい物理法則(一つもない)/論文88 の撤回(一つもない)/負のエントロピーの解釈(立ち入らない)。加えたもの:固有基底のシャノン量が S(ρ) に一致することを測ったこと、ユニタリ不変性を数で確かめたこと、古典側の不等式が破れないことを二十万個の標本で確認して量子側の マイナス ln 2 と対置したこと、三つのエントロピーに「動かすと動くもの」を書いたこと。残るもの:全体について完全に知っていながら、部分については何も知らない——そういう状態がある。古典の言葉では、この文は矛盾している。矛盾していないのは、情報が部分にではなく、部分と部分のあいだに置かれているからである。 作成にあたって:本稿の着想と内容は、著者自身の考察に基づくものです。文章の構成整理や英訳、数式の確認には AI(大規模言語モデル)の助力を得ました。最終的な内容の解釈や誤りがあれば、それらはすべて著者の責に帰します。お気づきの点があれば、ご教示いただければ幸いです。

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When someone says take the classical limit, the next question is what is being asked to become classical. Paper 113 wrote that quantum mechanics is a deformation of classical mechanics by Planck's constant and that letting that constant go to zero returns the classical algebra. That is a statement about structures. This paper asks the neighbouring question: does the behaviour return? They are different sentences, and the second has several answers. NO NEW MATHEMATICAL THEOREM AND NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED: Ehrenfest's theorem, Bohr's correspondence principle, the WKB approximation, and the collapse and revival of wavepackets are all standard, and no interpretation of quantum mechanics is judged. Every number was computed for this paper, and no matrix result is quoted unless doubling the basis left it alone. First, the equations. The rate of change of the mean momentum is exactly minus the mean of the force, while the classical equation uses the force at the mean position. These agree exactly when the force is linear, that is when the potential is at most quadratic. For a Gaussian packet of mean seven tenths and standard deviation thirty-five hundredths, the gap was zero for the quadratic, one hundred and twenty-two and a half thousandths for the cubic, and twenty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five hundred-thousandths for the quartic, matching the closed forms exactly. What makes the gap is the width of the packet, and the width is where Planck's constant enters, so the gap is proportional to it. At a fixed time the classical equation is therefore recovered, and that proviso is worth remembering. Second, the spectrum. Bohr said that for large quantum number the frequency radiated on a jump down by one approaches the classical orbital frequency. In hydrogen the ratio of the two runs three, then one and four hundred and six thousandths, then one and fifteen thousandths at a hundred, and one and one and a half thousandths at a thousand, approaching one like one plus three over twice the quantum number. Not once does Planck's constant appear in that ratio. The correspondence principle is not a statement that the constant is small but that the quantum number is large, a different sentence from the first. Nor is it about a single frequency: a jump down by two corresponds to the second harmonic of the orbit and by three to the third, with ratios that were measured separately. Third, the wavefunction. Take the Bohr-Sommerfeld condition with the added one half, the Maslov index, and apply it in the same form to two wells. For the harmonic oscillator the recipe agrees with the matrix eigenvalues to zero error at every level tested, the ground state included. For the quartic well it is never exact, with a relative error of about eighteen hundredths at the ground state falling to about two hundred-thousandths at the fortieth level. Semiclassical is not one condition either: the same recipe means different things in different wells. Fourth, and this is the core. Place a packet at rest in the quartic well and integrate the classical orbit with my own Runge-Kutta scheme. Holding the time fixed and lowering Planck's constant, the difference dies in proportion to it: halving the constant halves the difference, in agreement with the closed form of the first part. Holding the constant fixed and waiting instead, the swing collapses from its full value to about two ten-thousandths, and then comes back to about two thirds of its original size much later, while the classical orbit has not moved at all. So this is not a small correction to an orbit. Both the collapse and the revival come from the level spacing not being uniform, and nothing on the classical side answers to that. Fix the time and take the constant to zero and the answer is classical; fix the constant and take the time to infinity and it is not. This pattern is not new to this corpus. Paper 154 takes two limits failing to commute as its subject and sets zero against a definite magnetisation in the Curie-Weiss magnet. All that is added here is that the same pattern appears at the quantum-classical boundary. Fifth, the survival time is finite all the same. Measuring how long the swing takes to fall below a tenth of its initial value gives values that grow steadily as the constant shrinks, each surviving a doubling of the basis to eleven decimal places. It grows, and only as a power law. Making the constant small postpones the classical orbit's failure rather than preventing it. And Ehrenfest time is itself one name for two behaviours: the short logarithmic one often quoted belongs to chaotic systems, where the spreading is exponential, while this well is integrable and measurement gives a power. The exponent measured here is one packet in one well, not a derived exponent. A census. The equations become classical by Ehrenfest, exactly up to quadratic and spoiled by the width beyond. The spectrum becomes classical by Bohr's correspondence, driven by large quantum number and not by Planck's constant. The wavefunction becomes classical by WKB, exact in one well and asymptotic in another. The state becomes classical by decoherence, in which superposition goes. These four are not a staircase of strength: decoherence makes the state classical without making the equations classical, and as Paper 55 wrote a diagonal density matrix does not say which outcome occurs, while conversely the equations can be classical with superposition surviving. What settles it is what is being asked to be classical. Important (scope note): a census of established standard facts (Layer 2). What is not shown: any new mathematical theorem or physical law, none is claimed; any judgement on interpretations of quantum mechanics; any refutation of Paper 113, since this is a brake and not a refutation; and any novelty for the pattern of two limits failing to commute, which Paper 154 already holds. What is added: setting four limits against one separator, what is being asked to become classical; writing the Ehrenfest gap in closed form and confirming its proportionality in numbers; measuring the rate of the correspondence principle and showing that Planck's constant never enters it; placing one WKB recipe side by side where it is exact and where it is only asymptotic; and measuring the collapse and revival to a precision that survives a doubling of the basis. What remains: when someone says take the classical limit, the next question is what is being asked to become classical. The equations, the spectrum, the wavefunction, or the state all go by the same phrase, hold under different conditions and fail in different places. And the algebra returning does not mean the behaviour returns. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 「古典極限を取る」と言われたら、次に問うべきは「何が古典になれと言われているのか」である。 論文113 は「量子力学は古典力学の ℏ による変形であり、ℏ→0 で古典代数に戻る」と書いた。それは構造についての言明である。本稿は隣の問いを立てる——では振る舞いは戻るのか。二つは別の文であり、後者には答えが複数ある。新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も主張しない:エーレンフェストの定理、ボーアの対応原理、WKB 近似、波束の崩壊と再生は、いずれも標準的な内容である。また量子力学の解釈を判定しない。⚠️ 数値はすべて自前の計算であり、行列の対角化は基底を倍にして答えが動かないことを確かめてから引用した(動いた値は載せていない)。 第一に、方程式である。運動量の平均の時間変化は −⟨V′(x)⟩ に厳密に等しく、古典の式は −V′(⟨x⟩) である。両者が一致するのは V′ が線形のとき、すなわち V が二次までのときに限る。平均 0.7、標準偏差 0.35 のガウス波束で隔たりを測ると、二次では 0、三次では 0.1225(=σ²)、四次では 0.25725(=3μσ²)とぴたり予測どおりであった(本稿で計算)。⭐ 隔たりを作っているのは波束の幅である。そして幅こそが ℏ の入り口である——最小不確定の波束では σ²=ℏ/2 だから、隔たりは ℏ に比例する(ℏ=1, 0.01, 0.0001 で 1.05, 0.0105, 0.000105)。したがって時刻を固定すれば ℏ→0 で古典の式に戻る。⚠️ この但し書きを覚えておきたい。 第二に、スペクトルである。ボーア(1913, 1920)は、量子数が大きいとき n→n−1 の遷移で放射される振動数が古典の公転振動数に近づくと述べた。水素をリュードベリ単位で書けば遷移振動数は 1/(n−1)²−1/n²、n 番目の準位での古典の公転振動数は 2/n³ である。比は n=2 で 3.0、n=5 で 1.40625、n=10 で 1.17283950617、n=100 で 1.01520253035、n=1000 で 1.0015020025、n=10000 で 1.00015002 となり、近づき方は 1+3/(2n) と桁で一致した(本稿で計算)。⭐⭐ この比のどこにも ℏ が現れていない。対応原理は「ℏ が小さい」という言明ではなく、「量子数が大きい」という言明である——第一の ℏ→0 とは別の文なのである。しかも一本の振動数の話ですらない。n→n−k は公転の第 k 高調波に対応し、n=1000 で k=1,2,3 の比は 1.0015020025、1.00300802005、1.00451806774 であった。対応しているのはフーリエ級数の全体である。 第三に、波動関数である。ボーア=ゾンマーフェルトの量子化条件に 1/2 を加えたもの(マスロフ指数)を、二つの井戸に同じ形で当てる。調和振動子では n=0, 1, 5, 20 のいずれでも WKB の値が行列の固有値と誤差ゼロで一致した——基底状態を含め、どの n でも厳密である。ところが四次の井戸ではどの n でも厳密でなく、相対誤差は n=0 で 1.822×10⁻¹、n=1 で 1.257×10⁻²、n=10 で 3.204×10⁻⁴、n=40 で 2.156×10⁻⁵ と、n とともに改善するだけである(本稿で計算)。⭐ 「準古典」も一つの条件ではない。同じ処方が、井戸によって別のことを意味している。 第四に、これが本稿の芯である。四次の井戸に x=1.5 で静止した波束を置き、古典側は ẍ=−4x³ を自前のルンゲ=クッタ法で解く。時刻を t=2 に固定して ℏ を下げると、差は 0.1762、0.1050、0.0581、0.0307 と ℏ に比例して消える(ℏ を半分にすると差も半分——第一の閉じた形と合う)。⭐⭐ ところが ℏ=0.1 に固定して待つと、振れ幅は 1.5 から潰れていき、t=27.50 で 0.000195 に達し、そして t=199.85 で 0.664054 へ戻ってきた。古典の軌道は潰れも戻りもせず、1.4986 から一度も動いていない。したがってこれは軌道への小さな補正ではない。潰れも再生も、準位の間隔が一様でないことから来る——古典の側には対応するものが何も無い。すなわち、時刻を固定して ℏ→0 とすれば古典に戻り、ℏ を固定して t→∞ とすれば戻らない。二つの極限は順序を持って取られ、順序が答を決める。 ⚠️ この型は本体系の新顔ではない。論文154 が「二つの極限が交換しない」を主題にし、キュリー=ワイス磁石で 0 と 0.957504 を並べている。本稿が加えたのは、同じ型が量子と古典の境目にも現れるということだけである。 第五に、それでも存続時間は有限である。振れ幅が最初の十分の一を切るまでの時間を測ると、ℏ=0.4, 0.2, 0.1, 0.05 に対して 8.160、10.640、14.280、19.200 であった(各行とも基底を倍にして 10⁻¹¹ しか動かない)。伸びるが、伸び方は冪則にとどまる(測った両対数の傾きは ℏ の −0.41 乗)。⭐ ℏ を小さくすることは古典の軌道を延命するのであって、永続させはしない。⚠️ そして「エーレンフェスト時間」もまた一語で二つを指している。文献でよく引かれる log(1/ℏ) という短さはカオス系のものであり、広がりが指数的であることから来る。本稿の井戸は可積分であり、測ると冪則になる。⚠️ 上の指数は一つの波束・一つの井戸についての測定値であって、導出した指数ではない。 点呼をしておく。方程式が古典になるのがエーレンフェストで、二次までは厳密、以遠は幅が壊す。スペクトルが古典になるのがボーアの対応原理で、効くのは大きな量子数であって ℏ ではない。波動関数が古典になるのが WKB・準古典で、井戸によって厳密でも漸近でもある。状態が古典になるのがデコヒーレンスで、重ね合わせは消える。⚠️ 四つは強さの階段ではない。デコヒーレンスは状態を古典的にするが方程式を古典化せず(論文55 が書いたとおり、対角的な密度行列はどの結果が実現するかを語らない)、逆に方程式が古典的でも重ね合わせは残りうる。決めているのは、何に対して古典であれと言っているかである。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい数学定理や物理法則(一つもない)/量子力学の解釈の判定(していない)/論文113 への反論(ブレーキであって反論ではない)/「二つの極限が交換しない」という型の新規性(論文154 が既に持っている)。加えたもの:四つを「何が古典になれと言われているか」という一つの分離子に並べたこと、エーレンフェストの隔たりを閉じた形で書いて ℏ 比例を数で確かめたこと、対応原理の近づき方を測
Planck formulated the correspondence principle between quantum and classical mechanics as the limit in which the Planck constant h goes to zero. Bohr formulated the correspondence principle to be the limit of large quantum numbers. For three common quantum mechanical systems it is shown that in order for eigenvalues of quantum mechanical observables to have meaningful classical limits, it is necessary to take the double limit as both the Planck constant goes to zero and the quantum number goes to infinity, subject to the constraint that their product is equal to an appropriate classical action. This synthesis of the Bohr and Planck formulations of the correspondence principle is also used to show that the quantum mechanical transition frequency between adjacent levels approaches the corresponding classical frequency. The features these systems have in common in their classical limit are explained by general considerations of the classical limit of the Schrödinger equation.
Writing the equality is not an assertion but a way of putting a question: the form in which one asks whether this wall can be touched. And the answer cannot be read off the symbol. When a bound in physics is written down, at most and strictly less than are distinguished with care. And the symbol on the page does not settle whether the wall can be touched. This paper measures, for eleven bounds, whether the equality is reached. For a bound, the equality is reached when some configuration realises it, and not reached when the quantity comes arbitrarily close without ever taking it; in mathematics this is the standard distinction between a supremum and a maximum. NO NEW MATHEMATICAL THEOREM AND NO NEW LAW IS CLAIMED: the Buchdahl bound, the Tsirelson bound, PR boxes, minimum-uncertainty states, the Landauer bound and the Chandrasekhar mass are all standard. No bound is derived, only whether the equality is reached being measured; no claim of completeness is made, eleven examples appearing; no general mathematics is offered; and no rule about notation is proposed. The relation to earlier papers first. Paper 16 showed that the equals sign has six distinct roots; this paper takes the inequality side, where one symbol points at two kinds of wall. Paper 21 wrote that whether something is an identity or a hypothesis depends on which theory one stands inside, and the core section here is the quantitative version of that. Paper 194 showed there is only one equality fence and Paper 160 counted three ceilings over one inequality; this paper sorts those ceilings by whether they are touched. First, some walls cannot be touched. Measuring the central pressure of a uniform-density interior Schwarzschild solution against the compactness gives 0.261204 times the rest energy density at 0.5, 5.10897 at 0.86, 166.666 at 0.888, 166667 at 0.888888 and 1.66667 times ten to the sixth at 0.8888888: it diverges. The configuration that would touch the Buchdahl bound of eight ninths is not a configuration at all. In form the bound is written as at most, and in physics it is strictly less than. Second, some walls can be. Measuring minimum-uncertainty gaussians of width ten to the minus eleven, minus ten and minus nine, the product is 5.272859085000000 times ten to the minus thirty-five in every case, and the ratio to half of the reduced Planck constant is 1.000000000000000. Equality holds exactly, to fifteen digits. The equality condition of Cauchy-Schwarz is that the two vectors be proportional, and states meeting it exist, not one but a whole family. For the arithmetic and geometric means, equality holds only when all the numbers agree: drawing two hundred thousand triples uniformly, equality occurred zero times. It is reached, and the set that reaches it has probability zero. Third, my own guess was wrong. A first draft said that the algebraic CHSH ceiling of four is forbidden by no-signalling. Building a PR box and measuring it gives a CHSH value of 4.000000000000 and a largest signalling of zero. The guess was wrong: a PR box signals not at all and reaches four exactly. What forbids four is quantum mechanics, and not relativity. Fourth, this is the core. The three ceilings were counted from each standpoint, the quantum maximum measuring 2.828427124746 against two root two. Standing inside local hidden variables, two is reached and both two root two and four are impossible. Standing inside quantum mechanics, two and two root two are reached and four is impossible. Standing inside any no-signalling theory, all three are reached. The number two root two is a wall that is touched, a wall out of reach, and not a wall at all. The number never changed: what changed is which theory one stands inside. This is the quantitative version of what Paper 21 wrote about identities and hypotheses. Fifth, some walls sit at an endpoint. Measuring the work of erasure at three hundred kelvin as the time is lengthened, against a floor of 2.870978885 times ten to the minus twenty-one joules, the excess is five hundred per cent at one unit of time, five per cent at a hundred, five hundredths of a per cent at ten thousand, and still five ten-thousandths of a per cent at a million. Every finite time lies strictly above. The floor is the limit of the set and not a member of it: written with at least, and the equality never occurs. Sixth, eleven bounds were counted. Reached: Heisenberg's half a reduced Planck constant, because a state meets the equality condition; the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, at one point only, of probability zero; the Tsirelson bound, inside quantum mechanics; the CHSH value of two, inside local hidden variables; the CHSH value of four, inside a no-signalling theory, by a PR box; the Schwarzschild radius, the horizon being a real surface. Not reached: the CHSH value of four when one stands in quantum mechanics; the Buchdahl bound; the Landauer bound; the Chandrasekhar mass; the speed of light for a massive body. The reasons for not reaching fall into three: the extremiser requires a divergence, as for Buchdahl and the speed of light; the extremiser sits at an endpoint outside the set, as for Landauer; or something other than the inequality excludes it, as stability does for Chandrasekhar. There is only one reason for reaching: a configuration meeting the equality condition lies inside the permitted set. The separator and the fence. What separates the two kinds of at most is whether the extremiser lies inside the set. It is not the symbol. The fence around this quantity is bounded is over which set the bound is taken, and outside it the same number becomes reachable or unreachable, the same shape as this sequence is random in Paper 223 and volume is conserved in Paper 225. The difference between strictly less and at most is not a question of notation but a question of measurement. Writing the equality is not an assertion but a way of putting the question, the form in which one asks whether this wall can be touched. Paper 16 counted six distinct roots of the equals sign; what this paper counted is two kinds of inequality sign, and the sorting of the symbols is not finished. Important (scope note): a census of established standard facts (Layer 2). What is not shown: any new mathematical theorem or law, none is claimed; the derivation of any bound, only the attainment of equality being measured; completeness of the classification, eleven examples appearing; any general mathematics, whether a supremum is a maximum being a standard distinction in analysis; any rule about notation. What is added: following the Buchdahl central pressure numerically into the limit, confirming minimum uncertainty to fifteen digits, computing the CHSH value and the signalling of a PR box, checking the equality of the means over two hundred thousand random draws, following the Landauer excess out to a million units of time, and tabulating eleven bounds by whether the equality is reached. What remains: when bounds are written, at most and strictly less than are chosen with care, and that choice does not say whether the wall can be touched. Buchdahl's eight ninths is written as at most and no star touches it, since trying makes the pressure at the centre infinite. Landauer's floor is written as at least and no finite time touches it: after a million times as long it is still five ten-thousandths of a per cent above. A gaussian, meanwhile, meets its floor exactly, to fifteen digits. And two root two holds three different standings depending on where one stands: out of reach inside local hidden variables, touched inside quantum mechanics, and not a wall at all inside a no-signalling theory. The number never moved. So writing the equality is not a claim but a way of putting a question, the form in which one asks whether this wall can be touched. And the answer cannot be read off the symbol: one has to build the extremiser and see whether it lies inside the set that was allowed. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 等号を書くことは、主張ではなく問いの立て方である。「この壁に、触れられますか」と尋ねる形式が、等号なのである。そして答は、記号を見ても分からない。 物理の上限を書くとき、我々は「以下」と「未満」を書き分ける。だが紙の上の記号は、その壁に触れられるかを決めていない。本稿は十一の上限について、等号が到達されるかどうかを実際に測る。上限 X ≤ B について、B を実現する配置が存在するとき「到達される」といい、X が B にいくらでも近づけるのに B そのものを取れないとき「到達されない」という。数学では上限が最大値かどうかの区別であり、標準的である。新しい数学定理も新しい法則も主張しない:ブッフダール限界、ツィレルソン限界、PR 箱、最小不確定性状態、ランダウアー限界、チャンドラセカール質量は、いずれも標準的である。⚠️ 上限を導出しない——与えられた上限について等号が到達されるかだけを測る。⚠️ 網羅しない——扱うのは十一の例であり、分類が完全であることは主張しない。⚠️ 数学の一般論を作らない。⚠️ 記号の使い分けを規定しない——「以下と書くべきか未満と書くべきか」は論じない。 ⭐ 既刊との関係を先に書いておく。論文16 は等号に六つの別根があることを示した。本稿は不等号の側であり、同じ記号が二種類の壁を指していることを示す。⭐⭐ 論文21 は「恒等式か仮説かは、どの理論の内側に立つかで決まる」と書いたが、本稿の第5節はその定量版である。論文194 は等号の柵は一つしかないと示し、論文160 は一つの不等式に三つの天井を数えたが、本稿はその天井を触れるか触れないかで分ける。 第一に、触れない壁がある。一様密度の内部シュヴァルツシルト解で中心圧を測ると、コンパクトネスが 0.5 で 0.261204 倍、0.86 で 5.10897 倍、0.888 で 166.666 倍、0.888888 で 166667 倍、0.8888888 で 1.66667×10⁶ 倍と発散する(本稿で計算)。⚠️ ブッフダール限界 8/9 に触れる配置は、そもそも配置ではない。⭐ 形の上では「以下」だが、物理としては「未満」である。 第二に、触れる壁がある。最小不確定性状態(ガウス波束)で測ると、幅 10⁻¹¹、10⁻¹⁰、10⁻⁹ のいずれでも積は 5.272859085000000×10⁻³⁵ であり、ħ/2 との比は 1.000000000000000 であった(本稿で計算)。⭐ 十五桁で厳密に等号である。コーシー=シュワルツの等号条件は「二つのベクトルが比例すること」であり、それを満たす状態が実在する——しかも一つではなく族として。なお相加平均と相乗平均の等号は全部の数が等しいときに限り、0.5 から 4 の一様乱数で三つ組を 200000 回作ると等号は 0 回であった。⭐ 到達されるが、到達する集合の確率は零である。 第三に、私の見立ては外れた。初版で「CHSH の代数的天井 4 は無信号条件が禁じている」と書いたが、実際に PR 箱を組んで測ると、CHSH 値は 4.000000000000、その信号伝達は最大でも 0 であった(本稿で計算)。⚠️ 見込みは外れた。PR 箱は無信号でありながら 4 にちょうど到達する——⭐ 4 を禁じているのは相対論ではなく、量子力学のほうであった。 第四に、これが本稿の芯である。三つの天井を、立つ場所ごとに点呼した。量子の最大値は実測 2.828427124746(2√2=2.828427124746)。局所隠れた変数の内側に立てば、2 は到達するが 2√2 も 4 も不可能である。量子力学の内側に立てば、2 も 2√2 も到達し、4 は不可能である。無信号理論の内側に立てば、三つとも到達する(本稿で計算)。⭐⭐⭐ 2√2 は、触れる壁でもあり、届かない壁でもあり、そもそも壁ですらない。変わったのは数ではない——⚠️ 変わっ
WHAT TO LOOK FOR Although the classical theory developed in Chapter 2 can be used to describe a great many phenomena in the real world, there is little doubt that the proper description of the world is quantum. To a large measure we perceive the world classically and we must find ways to uncover the underlying quantum theory. The process of “quantization” normally consists of turning a classical theory into a corresponding quantum theory. In turn, the “classical limit” is the process by which a quantum theory is brought to its associated classical theory. The parameter ħ = 1.0545 × 10 −27 (≃ 10 −27 ) erg-seconds (cgs units), referred to as Planck's constant, sets the scale of quantum phenomena. In many applications it will prove useful to use “natural” units in which ħ = 1 just so that formulas are less cumbersome. For most typical formulations of quantum mechanics the classical limit means the limit that ħ → 0, and in this text we shall have many occasions to use this definition as well. In addition, we shall also learn to speak about the classical and quantum theories simultaneously coexisting – as they do in the real world – without the need to take the limit ħ → 0. There are three generally accepted “royal” routes to quantization, due principally to Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Feynman, respectively, and we shall exploit them all. In each case we begin with a single degree of freedom ( N = 1).
An analysis is made of the relation between quantum theory and classical mechanics, in the context of the limit ℏ→0. Several ways in which this limit may be performed are considered. It is shown that Schrödinger's equation for a single particle moving in an external potential V does not, except in special cases, lead, in this limit, to Newton's equation of motion for the particle. This shows that classical mechanics cannot be regarded as emerging from quantum mechanics—at least in this sense—upon straightforward application of the limit ℏ→0.
A census of the twos - one shape of exponent, arriving from this many different places. This corpus has met the exponent 2 in many places. Each has been written about separately, but no paper has yet called them all by name at once. This one does, using a single test: what must be moved for that 2 to move? NO NEW MATHEMATICAL THEOREM AND NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED. The inverse-square law, the Born rule, Ito's lemma, maximum likelihood and Clifford algebras are all standard. Nor does this paper retract anything the corpus has said about the individual twos. First, the 2 of the inverse square is d minus one. A spherically symmetric harmonic function in d dimensions satisfies a second-order ordinary differential equation, and reading off the exponent of the force gives one in two dimensions, two in three, three in four, four in five and five in six. The 2 of the inverse square is simply d minus one read at three dimensions. What must be moved is the spatial dimension (Papers 01 and 156). Second, Born's 2 does not move with the dimension, and what fixes it is unitarity. Draw a random unitary matrix and a random unit vector, and ask whether the sum of the p-th powers of the absolute values of the components changes. At p of one the largest change is 0.6698, at 1.5 it is 0.2279, at 2.5 it is 0.1798, at three 0.4248 and at four 0.4364. But at p of two it is 8.882 times ten to the minus sixteen - machine precision (computed here, worst case over four hundred draws in six dimensions). Holding p at two and changing the dimension of the Hilbert space to two, three, five, eight and thirteen leaves the change at order ten to the minus fifteen throughout. What must be moved is therefore not the dimension but the demand that time evolution be unitary. This paper does not call that a derivation of the Born rule: the derivation is Gleason's theorem (Paper 71), whose assumptions are far weaker than a random trial. What is shown here is only the step before - with any other exponent, probability is not conserved at all. Third, Ito's 2 moves with the roughness of the path. Generating fractional Brownian motion of Hurst exponent H exactly and measuring the quadratic variation as the mesh is refined, theory predicts a scaling of n to the one minus two H. The measured slopes were 0.5965 at H of 0.2, 0.3028 at 0.35, 0.0046 at 0.5, minus 0.3081 at 0.65 and minus 0.5917 at 0.8, agreeing with the predicted 0.60, 0.30, 0.00, minus 0.30 and minus 0.60 to within 0.01 (computed here). The quadratic variation is finite and non-zero only at one half. What must be moved is the roughness of the path, not the spatial dimension (Paper 132). Fourth, and this is what is new here. The 2 of least squares is the assumed error law itself. Minimising the sum of the p-th powers of the residuals is maximum likelihood for errors whose density is proportional to the exponential of minus the absolute residual to the p, so p of two corresponds to the Gaussian and one to the Laplace law. The exponent is therefore not a property of the data but the name of an assumption. With a true location of 3.0, forty points and two thousand repetitions: under Gaussian errors the p of two estimator gives 0.1565 against 0.1983 and wins; under Laplace errors p of one gives 0.1782 against 0.2199 and wins; and under Cauchy errors p of one gives 0.2632 while p of two gives 128.3741 - a factor of about five hundred (computed here). The exponent that wins matches the exponent of the law that generated the data. The gap under Cauchy noise is not a loss of accuracy but a breakdown of the estimator: the Cauchy law has no variance, so minimising a sum of squares has lost its meaning. It is the same shape of failure that Paper 129 described when it wrote that the variance form of the uncertainty relation says nothing once the variance diverges. So the 2 of least squares has a distinct root from the inverse square, from Born and from Ito - what must be moved is neither the dimension nor the roughness but the probability law one assumed. Fifth, Clifford's 2 cannot be moved. The defining relation of a Clifford algebra is that a vector squared equals the value of the quadratic form, and in the Pauli algebra each of the three squares minus the identity is exactly the zero matrix. There is no parameter here to turn: replacing the 2 does not give a different Clifford algebra, it gives no Clifford algebra (the same shape as epsilon squared being zero as a definition of a ring, in Papers 104 and 148). The census. The inverse-square 2 moves with the spatial dimension, has general form d minus one, and lives in harmonicity. Born's 2 moves with nothing, being held by unitarity. Ito's 2 moves with the roughness and is finite only at one half. The least-squares 2 moves with the assumed error law, its general form being the exponent in the density. Clifford's 2 cannot be moved, being a definition. Fourier's one half likewise does not move, arriving as the value of an extremum. One question, three answers, and three cases of nothing at all - and the three nothings are not the same either: Born's is held by a uniqueness theorem, Clifford's by a definition, and Fourier's arrives as an extremal value. The verdict is the same and the reason for it is different in all three. IMPORTANT (scope): a census of established standard material (Layer 2). What is not claimed: any new mathematical theorem or physical law (there is none) / any retraction of what the corpus has said about the individual twos (there is none). What is added: calling five twos by name under one test, showing in numbers that unitarity selects p equal to two uniquely, measuring the slope of the quadratic variation against one minus two H, and giving the 2 of least squares its address as an assumed error law, exhibited as a factor of five hundred under Cauchy noise. What remains: one shape of exponent, arriving from this many different places. On meeting a 2, the question to ask is not why two but what would have to move for it to stop being two. Only when that question has no answer may the 2 be written down as something that does not move. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 二乗の点呼——同じ形の指数が、これだけ違う場所から来ている。 この体系は、あちこちで指数 2 に出会ってきた。個々の 2 については書いてきたが、横断して点呼した稿がまだ無い。本稿はそれを、一つの試験——何を動かせばその 2 が動くか——で行う。新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も主張しない。逆二乗則、ボルン則、伊藤の補題、最尤推定、クリフォード代数は、いずれも標準的な内容である。⚠️ また本稿は、個々の 2 について体系が既に書いたことを撤回しない。 第一に、逆二乗の 2 は d マイナス 1 である。d 次元の球対称な調和関数は二階の常微分方程式を満たし、解いて力の指数を読むと、二次元で 1、三次元で 2、四次元で 3、五次元で 4、六次元で 5 となる。逆二乗の 2 は、d マイナス 1 を三次元で読んだ値にすぎない。動かすべきものは空間次元である(論文01・論文156)。 第二に、ボルンの 2 は次元では動かない。そして動かしているのはユニタリ性である。n 次元のユニタリ行列と単位ベクトルを無作為に取り、成分の絶対値の p 乗の和がユニタリ変換で変わるかを見る。p が 1 なら最大変化は 0.6698、1.5 なら 0.2279、2.5 なら 0.1798、3 なら 0.4248、4 なら 0.4364。ところが p が 2 のときだけ 8.882 かける十のマイナス十六乗——機械精度である(本稿で計算、六次元・四百組の最悪値)。さらに p を 2 に固定したままヒルベルト空間の次元を 2・3・5・8・13 と変えても、変化は十のマイナス十五乗台のまま動かない。すなわち動かすべきものは空間次元ではなく、時間発展がユニタリであるという要求のほうである。⚠️ 本稿はこれをボルン則の導出とは呼ばない。導出はグリーソンの定理が与えており(論文71)、そこでの仮定は本稿の無作為試験より遥かに弱い。本稿が示したのは「他の指数ではそもそも確率が保たれない」という、一段手前の事実だけである。 第三に、伊藤の 2 は道の粗さで動く。ハースト指数 H の非整数ブラウン運動を厳密に生成し、二次変分を刻み幅を細かくしながら測る。理論では n の 1 マイナス 2H 乗で振る舞うはずで、実際に測った傾きは H が 0.2 で 0.5965、0.35 で 0.3028、0.5 で 0.0046、0.65 でマイナス 0.3081、0.8 でマイナス 0.5917。予測値である 1 マイナス 2H の 0.60・0.30・0.00・マイナス0.30・マイナス0.60 と、いずれも 0.01 以内で一致した(本稿で計算)。二次変分が有限かつ非零であるのは H が二分の一のときだけである。動かすべきものは道の粗さであって、空間次元ではない(論文132)。 第四に、これが本稿の新しい部分である。最小二乗の 2 は、仮定した誤差則そのものである。残差の絶対値の p 乗の和を最小化することは、密度が指数マイナス絶対値 r の p 乗に比例する誤差についての最尤推定と同じである。p が 2 ならガウス、1 ならラプラスに対応する。したがって p はデータの性質ではなく、置いた仮定の名前である。真の位置を 3.0 とし四十点の標本を二千回引いて確かめると、ガウス誤差では p が 2 の推定量が 0.1565、1 が 0.1983 で 2 の勝ち。ラプラス誤差では 1 が 0.1782、2 が 0.2199 で 1 の勝ち。そしてコーシー誤差では 1 が 0.2632 なのに対し、2 は 128.3741——約五百倍の差である(本稿で計算)。勝つ指数は、データを生んだ法則の指数と一致する。 コーシーでの差は精度の劣化ではなく、推定量が破綻しているということである。コーシー分布は分散を持たないので、二乗を最小にするという方針そのものが意味を失う。論文129 が「分散が発散すれば分散版の不確定性は何も言っていない」と書いたのと、同じ形の失敗である。したがって最小二乗の 2 は、逆二乗の 2 とも、ボルンの 2 とも、伊藤の 2 とも別根である——動かすべきものは、次元でも粗さでもなく、置いた確率分布である。 第五に、クリフォードの 2 は動かせない。クリフォード代数の定義関係は「ベクトルの二乗が二次形式の値に等しい」であり、パウリ行列で確かめると三つとも二乗から単位行列を引いてちょうど零行列になる。ここには動かすべき径数が存在しない。2 を替えても「別のクリフォード代数」にはならず、クリフォード代数でなくなるだけである(論文104・論文148 の「イプシロンの二乗がゼロなのは環の定義」と同じ型)。 点呼をしておく。逆二乗の 2 は空間次元で動き、一般形は d マイナス 1、住所は調和性。ボルンの 2 は何も動かず、ユニタリ性が固定している。伊藤の 2 は道の粗さで動き、有限になるのは H が二分の一のときだけ。最小二乗の 2 は仮定した誤差則で動き、一般形は指数関数の肩の p。クリフォードの 2 は環の定義ゆえ動かせない。フーリエの二分の一も動かず、極値の値として出る。すなわち一つの問いに、三つの答えと、三つの「該当なし」がある。しかもその三つの「該当なし」も互いに同じではない——ボルンの 2 は一意性定理が固定し、クリフォードの 2 は定義が固定し、フーリエの二分の一は極値の値として出る。動かないという結果が同じでも、動かない理由は三つとも違う。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい数学定理も新しい物理法則も(一つもない)/個々の 2 についての過去の記述の撤回(一つもない)。加えたもの:五つの 2 を一つの試験で横断点呼したこと、ユニタリ性が p を 2 に一意に選ぶことを数で示したこと、二次変分の傾きが 1 マイナス 2H に一致することを測ったこと、最小二乗の 2 が「仮定した誤差則」であると住所を書きコーシー分布で五百倍の差として見せたこと。残るもの:同じ形の指数が、これだけ違う場所から来ている。2 を見たときに問うべきなのは「なぜ 2 なのか」ではなく、何を動かせばそれが 2 でなくなるのか、である。その問いに答えが無いとき——そのときだけ、その 2 は動かないものとして書いてよい。 作成にあたって:本稿の着想と内容は、著者自身の考察に基づくものです。文章の構成整理や英訳、数式の確認には AI(大規模言語モデル)の助力を得ました。最終的な内容の解釈や誤りがあれば、それらはすべて著者の責に帰します。お気づきの点があれば、ご教示いただければ幸いです。
There are states about which the whole is completely known and the parts are not known at all. Paper 88 wrote that under the single word entropy there are two different quantities, the coarse-grained one and the horizon-area one. This paper adds a third address: the von Neumann entropy. NO NEW PHYSICAL LAW IS CLAIMED. The von Neumann entropy, subadditivity, the Araki-Lieb triangle inequality and the negativity of the conditional entropy are all standard. Nothing in Paper 88 is retracted: the separation of the two entropies stands, and a third is simply added. First, it is not Shannon's entropy quantised. Shannon's entropy requires a probability distribution, and a quantum state does not come with one, since a different distribution appears for each basis one measures in. Collecting the Shannon quantity over twenty thousand measurement bases for random single-qubit mixed states, the value measured in the eigenbasis equalled the von Neumann entropy to machine precision, with a difference of zero in all four cases, while random bases only approached it from above. The von Neumann entropy is therefore the smallest Shannon quantity obtainable by measurement: in any other basis, more disorder is reported than the state actually holds. The two start from different data - Shannon is handed a distribution and returns a number, while von Neumann is handed a state and chooses the distribution himself. Second, unitary evolution does not change it at all. Over four thousand random four-dimensional density matrices and random unitaries, the largest change was 2.33 times ten to the minus fifteen. It is exactly conserved for a closed system. So the von Neumann entropy cannot by itself be the arrow of time: the arrow requires something non-unitary, a partial trace, a measurement or a coarse-graining (Papers 77, 78 and 88). Third, and this is the core. The whole can carry less than a part. For the singlet state the entropy of the pair is zero, being a pure state, while either half alone has entropy 0.6931471806, that is the natural logarithm of two. Classically this cannot happen: drawing two hundred thousand random two-by-two joint distributions and measuring the entropy of the whole minus the larger of the two parts, the smallest value found was 0.007226 and it was never once negative. Classically, knowing the whole includes knowing the parts; quantum mechanically it does not, and there are states about which the pair is completely known and either half alone is not known at all. This is not a statement that quantum systems are more disordered: an entropy of zero for the pair says there is no disorder whatever. It says only that the information has been placed in the correlation rather than in the parts. Fourth, the conditional entropy therefore turns negative. For the singlet it is minus 0.6931471806, that is minus the logarithm of two, while over the same two hundred thousand classical draws the smallest value was 0.009555. The classical conditional entropy is bounded below by zero and the quantum one reaches minus the logarithm of two - the two do not even share a sign convention, being written with the same symbol and called by the same name while having different ranges. Negative entropy is not a figure of speech but has an operational meaning, readable as a resource for future use in quantum state merging; this paper does not enter that interpretation, since what can be written is that the value is negative, and its address. Fifth, what stands in its place. Over twenty thousand random two-qubit states of random rank, subadditivity and the Araki-Lieb triangle inequality were violated zero times, and the singlet lies exactly on the boundary of the triangle inequality, the difference between the parts being zero and the whole being zero as well. The classical inequality is not weakened but replaced. The census. The coarse-grained entropy lives in the observer's resolution and is moved by changing the coarse-graining (Papers 77, 78, 88). The horizon-area entropy lives in the boundary area and dimension and is moved by changing the area (Papers 73, 88). The von Neumann entropy lives in the spectrum of the density matrix and is moved only by a non-unitary operation. Three quantities under one word: the first lives in the observer, the second in the boundary, and the third in the state itself. Of the three, only the third is unchanged by the passage of time. Entanglement entropy is known to obey an area law in field theory, so there is a rhyme between the third and the second. This paper does not write that they share a root: one is fixed by the choice of subsystem, the other by geometry. The line Paper 88 drew, that the only relation is a bound, is not crossed here either. IMPORTANT (scope): a census of established standard material (Layer 2). What is not claimed: any new physical law (there is none) / any retraction of Paper 88 (there is none) / an interpretation of negative entropy (not entered). What is added: measuring that the eigenbasis Shannon quantity equals the von Neumann entropy, checking unitary invariance numerically, confirming on two hundred thousand samples that the classical inequality never fails and setting it against the quantum minus logarithm of two, and writing for each of the three entropies what must be moved for it to move. What remains: there are states about which the whole is completely known and the parts are not known at all. In classical language that sentence contradicts itself. It does not contradict itself because the information has been placed not in the parts but between them. On the making of this work: The ideas and content of this work stem from the author's own considerations. Assistance from an AI (a large language model) was used for structuring, English translation, and checking the algebra. Any remaining errors or misinterpretations are solely the author's. Feedback and corrections are sincerely appreciated. ----- 全体について完全に知っていながら、部分については何も知らない——そういう状態がある。 論文88 は「エントロピー」という一語のもとに二つの別物——粗視化のものと地平線の面積のもの——があると書いた。本稿は第三の住所を加える:フォン・ノイマンのエントロピーである。新しい物理法則は主張しない。フォン・ノイマンのエントロピー、劣加法性、荒木=リーブの三角不等式、条件付きエントロピーの負値は、いずれも標準的な内容である。⚠️ また論文88 の内容を撤回しない——二つのエントロピーの分離はそのままで、三つ目を足すだけである。 第一に、これはシャノンを「量子化」したものではない。シャノンのエントロピーには確率分布が要る。ところが量子状態には、分布が一つ付いてはいない——どの基底で測るかによって違う分布が出るからである。無作為な一量子ビットの混合状態について二万通りの基底で測ってみると、固有基底で測ったときのシャノン量がフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーに機械精度で一致し(四例とも差ゼロ)、無作為な基底は上からしか近づかなかった。すなわちフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは「測ったときのシャノン量の最小値」である。どの基底で測っても、状態が実際に持っている以上の乱雑さが報告される。⭐ 出発点が違うのである——シャノンは分布を渡されて数を返し、フォン・ノイマンは状態を渡されて分布そのものを自分で選ぶ。 第二に、ユニタリ発展では一切変わらない。四次元の無作為な密度行列と無作為なユニタリを四千組取って測ると、最大変化は 2.33 かける十のマイナス十五乗であった。閉じた量子系では厳密に保存される。ゆえにフォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは、それ自体では時間の矢になりえない——矢が要るのは非ユニタリな操作、すなわち部分トレース・測定・粗視化のほうである(論文77・78・88)。 第三に、これが本稿の芯である。全体のほうが部分より小さいことがある。一重項状態では、二つ合わせた系のエントロピーがゼロ(純粋状態)なのに、片方だけを見るとその値は 0.6931471806、すなわち ln 2 になる。古典では起こりえない:二かける二の同時分布を二十万個無作為に引いて、全体のエントロピーから部分の大きいほうを引いた値を測ると、最小でも 0.007226 で、一度も負にならなかった。古典では、全体を知ることは部分を知ることを含む。量子ではそうならない——二つを合わせた系については完全に知っていて、片方だけを見ると何も知らない、という状態が存在する。⚠️ ただしこれは「量子のほうが乱雑だ」という話ではない。全体のエントロピーがゼロとは、乱雑さが皆無だということである。情報が部分にではなく相関の側に置かれている、というだけである。 第四に、したがって条件付きエントロピーが負になる。一重項では、全体から部分を引いて マイナス 0.6931471806、すなわち マイナス ln 2 である。同じ二十万個の古典分布では最小でも 0.009555 だった。古典の条件付きエントロピーは下からゼロで抑えられ、量子のそれは マイナス ln 2 に届く——二つは符号の約束すら共有していない。同じ記号で書かれ、同じ名前で呼ばれているが、値域が違う。⚠️ なお「負のエントロピー」は言葉の綾ではなく操作的な意味を持つ(量子状態併合における「将来使える資源」として読める)が、本稿はその解釈には立ち入らない。書けるのは、値が負になるという事実と、その住所までである。 第五に、代わりに何が残るか。無作為な二量子ビット状態を二万個(階数も無作為に)取って調べると、劣加法性も荒木=リーブの三角不等式も破れがゼロだった。しかも一重項は三角不等式の境界にちょうど乗っている(部分どうしの差がゼロ、全体もゼロ)。古典の不等式は弱められたのではなく、別の不等式に置き換わっているのである。 点呼をしておく。粗視化のエントロピーは観測者の解像度に住み、動かすには粗視化を変える(論文77・78・88)。地平線の面積エントロピーは境界の面積と次元に住み、動かすには面積を変える(論文73・88)。フォン・ノイマンのエントロピーは密度行列のスペクトルに住み、動かすには非ユニタリな操作が要る。一語の下に三つの量があり、一つ目は観測者に、二つ目は境界に、そして三つ目は状態そのものに住んでいる。三つのうち、時間の経過で変わらないのは三つ目だけである。 ⚠️ 絡み合いエントロピーが場の理論で面積則を示すことは知られており、三つ目と二つ目のあいだに韻がある。だが本稿はそれを同根とは書かない——片方は部分系の選び方で決まり、他方は幾何が決める。論文88 が「結ぶのは上限だけ」と書いた線を、ここでも越えない。 重要(射程):確立された標準的事実の点呼(第2層)。示さないこと:新しい物理法則(一つもない)/論文88 の撤回(一つもない)/負のエントロピーの解釈(立ち入らない)。加えたもの:固有基底のシャノン量が S(ρ) に一致することを測ったこと、ユニタリ不変性を数で確かめたこと、古典側の不等式が破れないことを二十万個の標本で確認して量子側の マイナス ln 2 と対置したこと、三つのエントロピーに「動かすと動くもの」を書いたこと。残るもの:全体について完全に知っていながら、部分については何も知らない——そういう状態がある。古典の言葉では、この文は矛盾している。矛盾していないのは、情報が部分にではなく、部分と部分のあいだに置かれているからである。 作成にあたって:本稿の着想と内容は、著者自身の考察に基づくものです。文章の構成整理や英訳、数式の確認には AI(大規模言語モデル)の助力を得ました。最終的な内容の解釈や誤りがあれば、それらはすべて著者の責に帰します。お気づきの点があれば、ご教示いただければ幸いです。