Energy-Constrained Commutator Variance for Weyl Pairs

Abstract:Let $W$ be a representation of the Weyl relations on a separable Hilbert space and write $\mathcal R_W(K)=\{W(f):f\in K\}''$. If the symplectic pairing of $K_1$ and $K_2$ is nonzero, there is a self-adjoint unitary $B\in\mathcal R_W(K_2)$ such that, for every normal state $\rho$, one can choose a self-adjoint unitary $A_\rho\in\mathcal R_W(K_1)$ with $\operatorname{Var}_\rho(-i[A_\rho,B])=4$. Hence the optimized mean-input-energy-constrained coefficient equals $4$ at every admissible energy threshold. For the fixed trigonometric Weyl witness $h$, an exact identity for $4-h^2$ reduces the deficit to a phase-fixed problem for commuting squared Weyl translations. For the one-mode quadratic energy $G_M=\frac12 R^TMR-\frac12\sqrt{\det M}$, with $M>0$ and $u^T\Omega v=\pi$, we prove $4-\gamma_{G_M,E}(h)=\frac{u^TMu+v^TMv+2\pi\sqrt{\det M}}{4E}+O(E^{-2})$. The lower bound holds over all normal states satisfying the mean-energy constraint, and a localized Zak construction attains the same coefficient. For $G=d\Gamma(H_1)$ and witness directions $u,v\in\operatorname{dom}H_1^{1/2}$, the fixed-witness deficit is $\Theta(E^{-1})$ whenever at least one direction lies outside $\ker H_1$; if both directions are zero modes, the constrained supremum equals the endpoint at every positive threshold.

arXiv:2609.19163 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.19163v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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