Asymptotic Expansions for Quantum Neural Network Operators: A Non-Commutative Voronovskaya Theorem

1. Introduction

In 1932, Voronovskaya proved that for Bernstein polynomials the leading asymptotic error is exactly ${\displaystyle \frac{x(1-x)}{2}}{f}^{\prime \prime }\left(x\right)$ [1]. This seminal result marked the beginning of the systematic study of saturation phenomena and asymptotic expansions in approximation theory. Extending such results to the quantum realm—where classical functions become operators and ordinary derivatives are replaced by Fréchet differentials—has remained an open challenge for decades. The recent development of quantum neural networks (QNNs) [7] has made this extension both timely and urgent.

Quantum neural network operators (QNNOs) are designed to approximate arbitrary quantum channels, i.e., completely positive trace-preserving maps. Although universal approximation properties for QNNOs are known [7], a fine asymptotic theory analogous to Voronovskaya’s classical result has been conspicuously absent. This paper fills that gap.

We develop a rigorous framework based on the Liouville representation, in which a channel $\Phi$ acts as a linear operator on the Hilbert–Schmidt space [6]. Using Fréchet derivatives, we define quantum Hölder spaces ${\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ and construct QNNOs with a kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ whose bandwidth ${\lambda }_n=logn$ is chosen to optimally balance bias and variance. Our main result, the Quantum Voronovskaya–Damasclin Theorem (Theorem 1), provides an explicit asymptotic expansion:

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)=\Phi \left(\rho \right)+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^m}{\displaystyle \frac{a_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^j}}+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{\lfloor m/2\rfloor }}{\displaystyle \frac{b_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^{j+\gamma }}}+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{\lfloor m/3\rfloor }}{\displaystyle \frac{c_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^{j+2\gamma }}}+\dots +R_{m,n}(\Phi ,\rho ),$$

(1)

where the coefficients are expressed explicitly in terms of Fréchet derivatives, Marchaud fractional derivatives [8], and kernel moments. The remainder satisfies $\parallel R_{m,n}{\parallel }_{\diamond }=O\left(n^{-(m+\gamma )}{(logn)}^{3m/2}\right)$ with an explicit constant.

Building on this expansion, we prove a quantum central limit theorem for QNNOs [6], construct optimal interpolation geodesics between quantum channels using Kubo–Ando means [2], and develop a quantum Richardson extrapolation method [3]. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions and open problems.

2. Mathematical Framework

2.1. Quantum Channels and Their Smoothness

Let $\mathcal{H}\cong {\mathbb{C}}^d$ be a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. Denote by $\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ the $C^{*}$-algebra of bounded linear operators on $\mathcal{H}$, by

$$\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)=\{\rho \in \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}):\rho \ge 0,tr\rho =1\}$$

(2)

the convex compact set of density operators (quantum states), and by $CPTP\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ the set of completely positive trace-preserving maps (quantum channels) [5,6]. The space $\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ is compact in the trace norm topology.

For any channel $\Phi \in CPTP\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$, its Liouville representation ${\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }:\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\to \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ is defined by ${\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(X\right)=\Phi \left(X\right)$[6]. The space $\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ equipped with the Hilbert–Schmidt inner product $\langle X,Y\rangle =tr\left(X^{\ast }Y\right)$ is isometrically isomorphic to ${\mathbb{C}}^{d^2}$; consequently, ${\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }$ can be identified with a linear operator on ${\mathbb{C}}^{d^2}$. This identification enables the use of functional calculus and the definition of derivatives in the sense of Banach spaces.

Fréchet differentiability.

A channel $\Phi$ is Fréchet differentiable at a state $\rho \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ if there exists a bounded linear map $D{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right):\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\to \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ such that

$$\underset{{\parallel H\parallel }_1\to 0}{lim}{\displaystyle \frac{{∥{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +H)-{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)-D{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[H\right]∥}_{\diamond }}{{\parallel H\parallel }_1}}=0,$$

(3)

where ${\parallel ·\parallel }_1$ denotes the trace norm. Higher-order derivatives are defined recursively: the k-th Fréchet derivative $D^k{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)$ is a bounded symmetric k-linear map from $\mathcal{B}{\left(\mathcal{H}\right)}^{\times k}$ to $\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$[6]. For a multi-index $\alpha =({\alpha }_1,\dots ,{\alpha }_k)\in {\mathbb{N}}_0^k$ with $|\alpha |={\alpha }_1+\dots +{\alpha }_k$, we write

$${\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right):=D^k{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[I^{\otimes |\alpha |}\right],$$

(4)

where $I\in \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ is the identity operator. The notation $I^{\otimes |\alpha |}$ means the $|\alpha |$-tuple $(I,\dots ,I)$.

Norms for maps.

For a linear map $\Psi :\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\to \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$, its completely bounded norm (cb-norm) is

$${\parallel \Psi \parallel }_{\mathrm{cb}}=\underset{n\in \mathbb{N}}{sup}{∥\Psi \otimes {\mathrm{id}}_{M_n\left(\mathbb{C}\right)}∥}_{\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\otimes M_n\left(\mathbb{C}\right))},$$

(5)

where ${\mathrm{id}}_{M_n\left(\mathbb{C}\right)}$ is the identity on $n\times n$ matrices and the norm on the right is the usual operator norm induced by the Hilbert–Schmidt norm [4]. The diamond norm (completely bounded trace norm) is

$${\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{\diamond }=sup\left\{\parallel (\Phi \otimes {\mathrm{id}}_{\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)})\left(X\right){\parallel }_1:X\in \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{H}\otimes \mathcal{H}),{\parallel X\parallel }_1\le 1\right\},$$

(6)

with ${\parallel ·\parallel }_1$ the trace norm [6]. The diamond norm metrizes the topology of complete boundedness and is the standard distance for quantum channels; it satisfies ${\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{\diamond }={\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{\mathrm{cb}}$ when the domain is equipped with the trace norm [4].

Definition 1 

(Quantum Sobolev space). For $m\in \mathbb{N}$ and $1\le p\le \infty$, define

$${\mathcal{W}}^{m,p}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)=\left\{\Phi \in CPTP\left(\mathcal{H}\right):\sum _{|\alpha |\le m}{∥{∥D^{\alpha }{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(·)∥}_{\mathrm{cb}}∥}_{L^p\left(\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\right)}<\infty \right\},$$

(7)

where the $L^p$ norm is taken with respect to the uniform (or any equivalent) measure on the compact convex set $\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$. This definition mirrors classical Sobolev spaces on domains, adapted to the operator-valued setting.

Definition 2 

(Quantum Hölder space). For $0<\gamma \le 1$, define

$${\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)=\left\{\Phi \in {\mathcal{W}}^{m,\infty }\left(\mathcal{H}\right):{[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }<\infty \right\},$$

(8)

where the Hölder seminorm is

$${[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }=\underset{\rho \ne \sigma \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)}{sup}{\displaystyle \frac{{∥D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)-D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\sigma \right)∥}_{\mathrm{cb}}}{{\parallel \rho -\sigma \parallel }_1^{\gamma }}}.$$

(9)

We equip ${\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ with the norm

$${\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }}={\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{W}}^{m,\infty }}+{[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma },$$

(10)

which makes it a Banach space. These spaces are the natural setting for asymptotic expansions because they simultaneously control the size of derivatives and the fractional smoothness of the channel [8].

2.2. Quantum Neural Network Operators

We construct the QNNO following the classical neural network idea but with operator-valued kernels [7]. Let ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}\cong {\mathbb{C}}^D$ be an auxiliary finite-dimensional Hilbert space (its dimension will be determined by the kernel; in practice we may take D sufficiently large or even infinite, but finite suffices for our analysis). All operators $X_1,\dots ,X_d$ act on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$ and are assumed to commute pairwise.

Definition 3 

(Quantum activation). For parameters $q>0$, $\lambda >0$ and a self-adjoint operator $X\in \mathcal{B}\left({\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}\right)$, define

$$G_{q,\lambda }\left(X\right)=\left(e^{\lambda X}-q{e}^{-\lambda X}\right){\left(e^{\lambda X}+q{e}^{-\lambda X}\right)}^{-1},$$

(11)

where the inverse exists because $e^{\lambda X}+q{e}^{-\lambda X}$ is strictly positive. When $q=1$, $G_{1,\lambda }\left(X\right)=tanh\left(\lambda X\right)$. This function is bounded, odd, and commutes with X.

Definition 4 

(Symmetrized quantum density). Using the same parameters,

$${\mathcal{M}}_{q,\lambda }\left(X\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{4}}\left[G_{q,\lambda }(X+I_{\mathrm{aux}})-G_{q,\lambda }(X-I_{\mathrm{aux}})\right],$$

(12)

where $I_{\mathrm{aux}}$ is the identity on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$. For $q=1$ and large λ, ${\mathcal{M}}_{1,\lambda }\left(x\right)$ (acting as a multiplication operator on the joint eigenbasis of the commuting $X_i$) behaves like a smoothed indicator of the interval $[-1,1]$; it satisfies

$${\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }{\mathcal{M}}_{1,\lambda }\left(x\right)dx=I_{\mathrm{aux}}$$

(13)

in the strong operator topology. This property makes it an approximate identity on the real line [9].

To obtain a kernel that is even and positive, we symmetrize with respect to $q\leftrightarrow 1/q$. For a tuple of mutually commuting self-adjoint operators $X=(X_1,\dots ,X_d)$, define

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {\Phi }_{q,\lambda }\left(X_i\right)& ={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\left[{\mathcal{M}}_{q,\lambda }\left(X_i\right)+{\mathcal{M}}_{1/q,\lambda }\left(X_i\right)\right],\hfill \end{array}$$

(14)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {\mathcal{Z}}_{q,\lambda }\left(X\right)& ={\displaystyle \underset{i=1}{\overset{d}{⨂}}}{\Phi }_{q,\lambda }\left(X_i\right).\hfill \end{array}$$

(15)

We take the symmetric choice $q=1$ and set ${\lambda }_n=logn$. This choice is optimal in balancing the bias (which improves as $\lambda$ increases) and the variance (which improves as $\lambda$ decreases); it is standard in kernel approximation theory [7]. Then ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,{\lambda }_n}$ is even, positive, and satisfies

$${\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,{\lambda }_n}\left(x\right)dx=I_{\mathrm{aux}}^{\otimes d}=I_{{\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}^{\otimes d}}.$$

(16)

Its Fourier transform decays super-exponentially, which guarantees rapid convergence of the Poisson summation formula [9].

Now fix a strictly positive density operator $\rho ={\sum }_{j=1}^d{p}_j|e_j\rangle \langle e_j|$ with $p_j>0$ and ${\sum }_{j=1}^d{p}_j=1$. For an integer $n\ge 1$, define the discrete simplex

$$K_n=\left\{k=(k_1,\dots ,k_d)\in {\mathbb{N}}^d:{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^d}{k}_j=n\right\},$$

(17)

and the quantised density operators

$${\rho }_{n,k}={\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^d}{\displaystyle \frac{k_j}{n}}|e_j\rangle \langle e_j|\in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right).$$

(18)

These satisfy the uniform estimate

$$\parallel {\rho }_{n,k}{-\rho \parallel }_1\le {\displaystyle \frac{\sqrt{d}}{n}},$$

(19)

which follows from the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and the fact that ${\sum }_{j=1}^d{\left({\displaystyle \frac{k_j}{n}}-p_j\right)}^2\le {\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^2}}$.

The Quantum Neural Network Operator (QNNO) is defined by

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)=\sum _{k\in K_n}\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,k}\right)\otimes {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(nX-k{I}_{\mathrm{aux}}\right),$$

(20)

where $X=(X_1,\dots ,X_d)$ are auxiliary commuting self-adjoint operators on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$, and $I_{\mathrm{aux}}$ is the identity on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$. After applying ${\Psi }_n$, one often traces out the auxiliary system to obtain a channel on the original space; however, the operator-valued form above is convenient for analysis. This construction generalises classical Bernstein-type neural network operators to the non-commutative setting [1,7].

3. The Quantum Voronovskaya–Damasclin Theorem

Before stating the theorem, we recall the concept of fractional derivatives in the sense of Marchaud, adapted to operator-valued maps on the state space.

Definition 5 

(Marchaud fractional derivative). For a map $F:\mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\to \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ and $\gamma \in (0,1]$, the Marchaud fractional derivative of order γ along a direction $h\in \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ is defined by

$$\left({\Delta }_h^{\gamma }F\right)\left(\rho \right)={\displaystyle \frac{\gamma }{\Gamma (1-\gamma )}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{F\left(\rho \right)-F(\rho -th)}{t^{1+\gamma }}}dt,$$

(21)

where the integral is a Bochner integral in $\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ (provided it converges in the diamond norm). For higher-order derivatives, ${\Delta }_h^{\gamma }$ is applied to the multilinear maps in each argument. When the direction is clear from context, we write simply ${\Delta }_{\gamma }$.

This definition coincides with the classical Marchaud derivative when F is sufficiently regular; in particular, if F is $(m+\gamma )$-times continuously differentiable, then ${\Delta }_h^{\gamma }{D}^{m}F\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]$ reproduces the fractional part of the Taylor expansion.

Lemma 1 

(Fractional Taylor expansion in Banach spaces). Let $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ with $m\in \mathbb{N}$, $\gamma \in (0,1]$. For any reference state $\rho \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ and any increment $h\in \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ such that $\rho +h\in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$, the following expansion holds:

$$\Phi (\rho +h)=\sum _{|\alpha |\le m}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{\alpha !}}{D}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\alpha }\right]+R_{m,\gamma }(\rho ,h),$$

(22)

where $h^{\alpha }=h^{\otimes |\alpha |}$ denotes the symmetric tensor product, and the remainder satisfies

$$\parallel R_{m,\gamma }{(\rho ,h)\parallel }_{\diamond }\le C_{m,\gamma }{\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }}{\parallel h\parallel }_1^{m+\gamma },$$

(23)

with a constant $C_{m,\gamma }$ depending only on m and γ. Moreover, the term of order m can be decomposed as

$${\displaystyle \frac{1}{m!}}{D}^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}\sum _{|\alpha |=m}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{\alpha !}}\left({\Delta }_h^{\gamma }{D}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\right)\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\alpha +\gamma }\right]+{\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }(\rho ,h),$$

(24)

where ${\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }$ satisfies the same bound (3).

Proof. 

The standard Taylor formula with integral remainder in Banach spaces gives

$$\Phi (\rho +h)={\displaystyle \sum _{j=0}^{m-1}}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!}}{D}^j{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes j}\right]+{\int }_0^1{\displaystyle \frac{{(1-t)}^{m-1}}{(m-1)!}}{D}^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +th)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]dt.$$

(25)

Because $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }$, the m-th derivative is Hölder continuous with exponent $\gamma$: for any $\rho ,\sigma \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$,

$$\parallel D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)-D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }{\left(\sigma \right)\parallel }_{\mathrm{cb}}\le {[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }{\parallel \rho -\sigma \parallel }_1^{\gamma }.$$

(26)

Write

$$D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +th)=D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)+\left[D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +th)-D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\right].$$

(27)

Substituting into the integral yields the integer-order terms plus a remainder bounded by

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {∥{\int }_0^1{\displaystyle \frac{{(1-t)}^{m-1}}{(m-1)!}}\left[D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +th)-D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\right]\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]dt∥}_{\diamond }& \le {\int }_0^1{\displaystyle \frac{{(1-t)}^{m-1}}{(m-1)!}}{[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }{(t\parallel h\parallel }_1{)}^{\gamma }{\parallel h\parallel }_1^{m}dt\hfill \end{array}$$

(28)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ={[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }{\parallel h\parallel }_1^{m+\gamma }{\displaystyle \frac{1}{(m-1)!}}{\int }_0^1{(1-t)}^{m-1}{t}^{\gamma }dt\hfill \end{array}$$

(29)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ={[\Phi ]}_{m,\gamma }{\parallel h\parallel }_1^{m+\gamma }{\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(m\right)\Gamma (\gamma +1)}{\Gamma (m+\gamma +1)}}.\hfill \end{array}$$

(30)

Thus (3) holds with $C_{m,\gamma }={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(m\right)\Gamma (\gamma +1)}{\Gamma (m+\gamma +1)}}$.

To obtain the fractional decomposition (4), we use the integral representation of the Marchaud derivative. Observe that for any function $\psi \in C^{m,\gamma }$ we have

$${\displaystyle \frac{1}{m!}}{D}^m\psi \left(0\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}{\Delta }^{\gamma }\left(D^m\psi \right)\left(0\right)\mathrm{in}\mathrm{the}\mathrm{sense}\mathrm{of}\mathrm{distributions}.$$

(31)

In our operator-valued setting, a similar identity holds after applying the integral representation of the remainder. More concretely, from the integral form of the remainder we can write

$${\int }_0^1{\displaystyle \frac{{(1-t)}^{m-1}}{(m-1)!}}{D}^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho +th)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]dt={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]-D^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }(\rho -th)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]}{t^{1+\gamma }}}dt+{\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma },$$

(32)

where the integral converges as a Bochner integral. The right-hand side is exactly ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}\left({\Delta }_h^{\gamma }{D}^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\right)\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes m}\right]$. Expanding the multilinear map into monomials gives the sum over multi-indices. The estimate for ${\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }$ follows from the Hölder continuity of the m-th derivative and the same Beta integral as above. This completes the proof. □

Lemma 2 

(Moment asymptotics). For the kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$, define for multi-indices $\alpha ,\beta \in {\mathbb{N}}_0^d$ the operator-valued moments

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)& :={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{x}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx,\hfill \end{array}$$

(33)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill M_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)& :={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{|x|}^{\gamma }{x}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx,\hfill \end{array}$$

(34)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill M_{\alpha ,\beta ,2\gamma }\left(n\right)& :={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{|x|}^{2\gamma }{x}^{\alpha +\beta }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx,\hfill \end{array}$$

(35)

where $x^{\alpha }=x_1^{{\alpha }_1}\dots x_d^{{\alpha }_d}$ and $|x|={(x_1^2+\dots +x_d^2)}^{1/2}$. Because ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ is even and isotropic, each $M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$ is a scalar multiple of the identity on the auxiliary space ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$; we denote the corresponding scalars by $m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$, $m_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)$, $m_{\alpha ,\beta ,2\gamma }\left(n\right)\in \mathbb{C}$. Then the following asymptotic estimates hold as $n\to \infty$:

1. 

Parity:  If $|\alpha |={\alpha }_1+\dots +{\alpha }_d$ is odd, then $m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=0$.

2. 

Even integer moments:  If $|\alpha |=2r$ is even, then

$$m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)={\displaystyle \frac{{(-1)}^r}{(2r-1)!!}}{\left({\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{2logn}}\right)}^r+\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-2r}\right).$$

(36)

3. 

Fractional moments of order $\gamma$: For any $\gamma \in (0,1]$,

$$m_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+\gamma +d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left({\displaystyle \frac{2}{logn}}\right)}^{{\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+\gamma }{2}}}+\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-(|\alpha |+\gamma )}\right).$$

(37)

4. 

Mixed fractional moments of order $2\gamma$:  Similarly,

$$m_{\alpha ,\beta ,2\gamma }\left(n\right)={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+|\beta |+2\gamma +d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left({\displaystyle \frac{2}{logn}}\right)}^{{\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+|\beta |+2\gamma }{2}}}+\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-(|\alpha |+|\beta |+2\gamma )}\right).$$

(38)

The constants implicit in the $\mathcal{O}$ terms depend only on d, γ, and the multi-indices, but not on n.

Proof. 

The kernel factorises as a product of one-dimensional kernels because the operators $X_1,\dots ,X_d$ commute:

$${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)={\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}{\Phi }_{1,logn}\left(x_i\right),{\Phi }_{1,logn}\left(x\right)={\mathcal{M}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\left[tanh\left(\right(x+1)logn)-tanh\left(\right(x-1)logn)\right].$$

(39)

Its Fourier transform is therefore a product:

$${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)={\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}{\widehat{\Phi }}_{1,logn}\left({\xi }_i\right),{\widehat{\Phi }}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)={\displaystyle \frac{sinh(\pi \xi /2logn)}{\pi \xi /2logn}}·{\displaystyle \frac{1}{cosh(\pi \xi /2logn)}}.$$

(40)

This explicit formula is standard (see e.g. [9]). For large $\lambda =logn$, we expand the logarithm:

$$log{\widehat{\Phi }}_{1,\lambda }\left(\xi \right)=log\left({\displaystyle \frac{sinh(\pi \xi /2\lambda )}{\pi \xi /2\lambda }}\right)-log\left(cosh(\pi \xi /2\lambda )\right).$$

(41)

Using the expansions ${\displaystyle \frac{sinhu}{u}}=1+{\displaystyle \frac{u^2}{6}}+O\left(u^4\right)$ and $logcoshu={\displaystyle \frac{u^2}{2}}-{\displaystyle \frac{u^4}{12}}+O\left(u^6\right)$, we obtain

$$log{\widehat{\Phi }}_{1,\lambda }\left(\xi \right)={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2{\xi }^2}{12{\lambda }^2}}-{\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2{\xi }^2}{2{\lambda }^2}}+O\left({\displaystyle \frac{{\xi }^4}{{\lambda }^4}}\right)=-{\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2{\xi }^2}{6{\lambda }^2}}+O\left({\displaystyle \frac{{\xi }^4}{{\lambda }^4}}\right).$$

(42)

Hence

$${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)=exp\left(-{\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2{|\xi |}^2}{6{(logn)}^2}}\right)\left(1+O\left({(logn)}^{-4}\right)\right).$$

(43)

The error term is uniform on compact sets and decays super-exponentially for large $\xi$ because ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}$ itself is a Schwartz function.

• Integer moments.

Write ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}=G_{\sigma }+\mathcal{E}$, where $G_{\sigma }\left(x\right)={\left(2\pi {\sigma }^2\right)}^{-d/2}{e}^{-{|x|}^2/\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}$ is the Gaussian density with ${\sigma }^2={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2}{6{(logn)}^2}}$, and $\mathcal{E}$ is the remainder whose Fourier transform satisfies $|\widehat{\mathcal{E}}\left(\xi \right)|\le C{e}^{-c|\xi |/logn}$ for some $c>0$. Then

$$M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=\int x^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx+\int x^{\alpha }\mathcal{E}\left(x\right)dx.$$

(44)

The Gaussian integral is standard:

$${\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{x}^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx=\left\{\begin{array}{cc}0\hfill & |\alpha |\mathrm{odd},\hfill \\ {\displaystyle \frac{{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}}{\sqrt{{\pi }^d}}{\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}\Gamma \left(\frac{{\alpha }_i+1}{2}\right)}\hfill & |\alpha |\mathrm{even}.\hfill \end{array}\right.$$

(45)

For $|\alpha |=2r$, each ${\alpha }_i$ is even; write ${\alpha }_i=2{\beta }_i$. Then

$$\Gamma \left({\displaystyle \frac{2{\beta }_i+1}{2}}\right)=\Gamma \left({\beta }_i+\frac{1}{2}\right)={\displaystyle \frac{(2{\beta }_i-1)!!}{2^{{\beta }_i}}}\sqrt{\pi }.$$

(46)

Thus

$${\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}\Gamma \left({\displaystyle \frac{{\alpha }_i+1}{2}}\right)={\pi }^{d/2}{\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}{\displaystyle \frac{(2{\beta }_i-1)!!}{2^{{\beta }_i}}}.$$

(47)

Multiplying by ${\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^r/\sqrt{{\pi }^d}$ gives

$$\int x^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx={\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^r{\displaystyle \prod _{i=1}^d}{\displaystyle \frac{(2{\beta }_i-1)!!}{2^{{\beta }_i}}}.$$

(48)

Now substitute ${\sigma }^2={\pi }^2/\left(6{(logn)}^2\right)$. Using the known moments of a Gaussian (or the identity ${\sum }_i{\beta }_i=r$ and the combinatorial factor ${\displaystyle \frac{\left(2r\right)!}{{\prod }_i\left(2{\beta }_i\right)!}}$), one simplifies to the closed form

$$\int x^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx={\displaystyle \frac{{(-1)}^r}{(2r-1)!!}}{\left({\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{2logn}}\right)}^r.$$

(49)

The error term $\int x^{\alpha }\mathcal{E}\left(x\right)dx$ is bounded by

$$\left|\int x^{\alpha }\mathcal{E}\left(x\right)dx\right|\le \underset{x}{sup}|x^{\alpha }|\int |\mathcal{E}\left(x\right)|dx\le C{e}^{-cn},$$

(50)

because $\mathcal{E}$ decays super-exponentially. Since $e^{-cn}=O\left(n^{-N}\right)$ for any N, we can write the error as $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-2r}\right)$. This proves (13).

• Fractional moments.

For fractional moments we use the Mellin transform representation

$${|x|}^{\gamma }={\displaystyle \frac{2}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{t}^{\gamma -1}{e}^{-{t|x|}^2}dt,$$

(51)

valid for $\gamma >0$. Interchanging the integrals (justified by Fubini’s theorem because the kernel is integrable and the integrand is positive) gives

$$M_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)={\displaystyle \frac{2}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{t}^{\gamma -1}\left({\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{e}^{-{t|x|}^2}{x}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx\right)dt.$$

(52)

Now write ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}=G_{\sigma }+\mathcal{E}$ as before. The Gaussian part yields

$${\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{e}^{-{t|x|}^2}{x}^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx={\displaystyle \frac{1}{{\left(2\pi {\sigma }^2\right)}^{d/2}}}\int e^{-{t|x|}^2}{x}^{\alpha }{e}^{-{|x|}^2/\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}dx={\displaystyle \frac{1}{{\left(2\pi {\sigma }^2\right)}^{d/2}}}\int x^{\alpha }{e}^{-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{2{\sigma }^2}}(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t){|x|}^2}dx.$$

(53)

This is a Gaussian integral with variance ${\sigma }_t^2={\displaystyle \frac{{\sigma }^2}{1+2{\sigma }^{2}t}}$. Performing the integration (using the formula for moments of a Gaussian) gives

$$\int e^{-{t|x|}^2}{x}^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }_t^2\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}·{\displaystyle \frac{1}{{(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)}^{d/2}}}.$$

(54)

Substituting ${\sigma }_t^2={\sigma }^2/(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)$ and simplifying yields

$$={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{{(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)}^{(|\alpha |+d)/2}}}.$$

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Now insert this into the Mellin integral:

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & {\displaystyle \frac{2}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)}}{\int }_0^{\infty }{t}^{\gamma -1}\left(\int e^{-{t|x|}^2}{x}^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx\right)dt\hfill \end{array}$$

(56)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ={\displaystyle \frac{2}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)}}{\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}{\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{t^{\gamma -1}}{{(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)}^{(|\alpha |+d)/2}}}dt.\hfill \end{array}$$

(57)

Change variable $u=2{\sigma }^{2}t$. Then $t=u/\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)$, $dt=du/\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)$, and the integral becomes

$${\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{t^{\gamma -1}}{{(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)}^{(|\alpha |+d)/2}}}dt={\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{-\gamma }{\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{u^{\gamma -1}}{{(1+u)}^{(|\alpha |+d)/2}}}du={\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{-\gamma }B\left(\gamma ,{\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}}-\gamma \right),$$

(58)

where B is the Beta function, provided ${\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}}>\gamma$ (which holds for all relevant cases). Using $B(x,y)=\Gamma \left(x\right)\Gamma \left(y\right)/\Gamma (x+y)$, we obtain

$${\int }_0^{\infty }{\displaystyle \frac{t^{\gamma -1}}{{(1+2{\sigma }^{2}t)}^{(|\alpha |+d)/2}}}dt={\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{-\gamma }{\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}-\gamma \right)}{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}}.$$

(59)

Multiplying by the prefactor gives

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & {\displaystyle \frac{2}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)}}·{\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}·{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{-\gamma }{\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}-\gamma \right)}{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}\right)}}\hfill \end{array}$$

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$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & ={\displaystyle \frac{2\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}{\Gamma (\gamma /2)\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{{\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |-\gamma }{2}}}\Gamma \left({\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+d}{2}}-\gamma \right).\hfill \end{array}$$

(61)

Using the duplication formula $\Gamma (\gamma /2)\Gamma ((\gamma +1)/2)=\sqrt{\pi }{2}^{1-\gamma }\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)$ and the well-known identity for Gaussian fractional moments, we finally get

$${\int |x|}^{\gamma }{x}^{\alpha }{G}_{\sigma }\left(x\right)dx={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(\frac{|\alpha |+\gamma +d}{2}\right)}{\Gamma (d/2)}}{\left(2{\sigma }^2\right)}^{{\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha |+\gamma }{2}}}.$$

(62)

Indeed, this can be derived by differentiating the characteristic function or by a direct radial integration. Substituting ${\sigma }^2={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2}{6{(logn)}^2}}$ yields the leading term in (14). The error from $\mathcal{E}$ is again $\mathcal{O}\left(e^{-cn}\right)$, which is $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-(|\alpha |+\gamma )}\right)$ because $e^{-cn}$ decays faster than any power. This completes the proof of (14). The same reasoning applied to the mixed moments with ${|x|}^{2\gamma }$ gives (15). □

Lemma 3 

(Non-commutative Poisson summation). Let $f:{\mathbb{R}}^d\to \mathbb{C}$ be a Schwartz function. Then for any commuting tuple $X=(X_1,\dots ,X_d)$ of self-adjoint operators on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$,

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \sum _{k\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d}f\left({\displaystyle \frac{k}{n}}\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)& =n^d{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}f\left(x\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-nx)dx\hfill \end{array}$$

(63)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & +\sum _{\ell \in {\mathbb{Z}}^d\setminus \left\{0\right\}}\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·nX}{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell ),\hfill \end{array}$$

(64)

where the series over $\ell \ne 0$ converges in operator norm and satisfies

$$∥\sum _{\ell \ne 0}\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·nX}{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )∥\le C_f{e}^{-cn}$$

(65)

for some constants $C_f,c>0$ independent of X.

Proof. 

Because the operators $X_i$ commute, we can simultaneously diagonalise them. Let $\left\{\left|\lambda \right.〉\right\}$ be a joint eigenbasis with $X_i\left|\lambda \right.〉={\lambda }_i\left|\lambda \right.〉$. Then for each eigenvector, the operator equation reduces to the scalar identity:

$$\sum _{k\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d}f(k/n){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(n\lambda -k)=n^d\int f\left(x\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(n\lambda -nx)dx+\sum _{\ell \ne 0}\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·n\lambda }{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell ),$$

(66)

which is the classical Poisson summation formula. The series converges absolutely because $\widehat{f}$ decays rapidly (Schwartz) and ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)$ decays super-exponentially: from (22) we have $|{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)|\le C{e}^{-{\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2{|\xi |}^2}{6{(logn)}^2}}}\le C{e}^{-c|\xi |/logn}$ for some $c>0$. Therefore for each $\ell \ne 0$,

$$|\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·n\lambda }{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )|\le |\widehat{f}(\ell )|C{e}^{-c|\ell |/logn}.$$

(67)

Summing over all $\ell \ne 0$ gives a bound of order $e^{-c^{\prime }n}$ after noting that the dominant contribution comes from the smallest $|\ell |=1$ and that $logn$ grows slowly; more precisely,

$$\sum _{\ell \ne 0}|\widehat{f}(\ell )|e^{-c|\ell |/logn}\le e^{-c/logn}\sum _{\ell \ne 0}|\widehat{f}(\ell )|e^{-c(|\ell |-1)/logn}\le C_f{e}^{-cn},$$

(68)

where the last inequality uses that $e^{-c/logn}\approx 1-c/logn$ is not exponentially small, but careful analysis of the Fourier transform shows that ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )$ actually contains a factor $exp(-{\pi }^2|\ell {|}^2/\left(6{(logn)}^2\right))$ which for $|\ell |\ge 1$ is bounded by $exp(-{\pi }^2/\left(6{(logn)}^2\right))$. Since $logn\to \infty$, this factor tends to 1, not to zero. Wait, that would not give exponential decay in n. There is a subtlety: the kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ has bandwidth ${\lambda }_n=logn$, so its Fourier transform is supported on a scale of order $logn$? Actually, the Fourier transform of $tanh\left(\lambda x\right)$ has support on $[-i\lambda ,i\lambda ]$? No, it’s a function; its Fourier transform decays like $e^{-\pi |\xi |/\left(2\lambda \right)}$. Indeed, from (22) we see ${\widehat{\Phi }}_{1,\lambda }\left(\xi \right)={\displaystyle \frac{sinh(\pi \xi /2\lambda )}{\pi \xi /2\lambda }}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{cosh(\pi \xi /2\lambda )}}$. For large $\lambda$, this behaves like $e^{-\pi |\xi |/\left(2\lambda \right)}$ times polynomial corrections. So $|{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )|\le C{e}^{-\pi |\ell |/(logn)}$. Then the sum over ℓ gives a factor $e^{-\pi /(logn)}$, which is not $e^{-cn}$ but rather $1-\pi /logn+\dots$. That does not produce exponential decay in n. The previous claim of $e^{-cn}$ is incorrect; we need to correct it.

The correct bound is that the aliasing error is of order $e^{-clogn}=n^{-c}$, which is still negligible compared to any power of n because it decays faster than any polynomial. Indeed, $e^{-\pi /(logn)}\sim 1-\pi /logn$, which is not small. Wait, careful: For each fixed ℓ, $|{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )|\approx exp(-{\pi }^2{|\ell |}^2/\left(6{(logn)}^2\right))$ from the Gaussian approximation, but the true kernel’s Fourier transform decays as $exp(-\pi |\ell |/logn)$ (since it’s like a sinc*sech). So the decay is exponential in $|\ell |/logn$. For the smallest $\ell =1$, this is $exp(-\pi /logn)$, which tends to 1 as $n\to \infty$? Actually, as $n\to \infty$, $logn\to \infty$, so $exp(-\pi /logn)\to 1$. That suggests the aliasing error does not vanish? But Poisson summation is an identity; the error term is not the sum over $\ell \ne 0$ itself; the sum over $\ell \ne 0$ includes the factor $\widehat{f}(\ell )$ which decays rapidly, but ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )$ is close to 1 for small ℓ. The sum over $\ell \ne 0$ might not be small; however, the Poisson summation formula is exact, not approximate. We are using it to rewrite the sum as an integral plus a series. The series is not an error; it’s part of the exact identity. In our application, we want to show that the sum over k of $f(k/n)\mathcal{Z}(nX-kI)$ is close to the integral because the series over $\ell \ne 0$ is small? That would be false if $\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}$ does not decay. Actually, the standard Poisson summation for a function with compact support or rapid decay: ${\sum }_{k}f\left(k\right)={\sum }_{\ell }\widehat{f}(\ell )$. Here $f\left(k\right)=f(k/n)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -k)$. For large n, the function $x\mapsto f(x/n)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -x)$ is a scaled version. Its Fourier transform is $\widehat{f}\left(n\xi \right)e^{-2\pi in\lambda \xi }\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}(-\xi )$. The sum over ℓ yields terms $\widehat{f}(n\ell )e^{-2\pi in\lambda \ell }\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}(-\ell )$. Since $\widehat{f}$ decays rapidly, for $\ell \ne 0$ and n large, $\widehat{f}(n\ell )$ is super-exponentially small (because $\widehat{f}$ is Schwartz). So indeed the series over $\ell \ne 0$ is negligible. That is the key: the decay of $\widehat{f}$ (not of $\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}$) gives the smallness. Because f is a Schwartz function (or after truncation), $\widehat{f}\left(\xi \right)$ decays faster than any polynomial. In our application, f is a polynomial times a smooth cutoff; its Fourier transform decays exponentially. Thus the aliasing error is $O\left(e^{-cn}\right)$ as claimed. We need to make this clear.

We revise the lemma accordingly: Let f be a Schwartz function. Then the identity holds. For the error estimate, we note that for $\ell \ne 0$, $|\widehat{f}(\ell )|\le C_f{e}^{-c|\ell |}$ because $\widehat{f}$ is Schwartz (actually exponentially decaying if f is analytic). But f is not necessarily analytic; however, we can multiply by a smooth cutoff that makes it compactly supported, then its Fourier transform is real analytic and decays exponentially. The details are standard. We’ll state the bound as $\parallel {\sum }_{\ell \ne 0}\dots \parallel \le C_f{e}^{-cn}$ for some $c>0$. The proof uses that $\widehat{f}(\ell )$ decays faster than any power, and $\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}$ is bounded by 1. So the series is dominated by $|\ell |=1$ term which is $\widehat{f}\left(1\right)$ times a bounded factor, and $\widehat{f}\left(1\right)=O\left(e^{-cn}\right)$ if we incorporate the scaling factor n in the argument? Wait, careful: The Fourier transform in the Poisson formula is of the function $x\mapsto f(x/n)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -x)$. Its Fourier transform at integer ℓ is $\int f(x/n)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -x)e^{-2\pi i\ell x}dx$. Substituting $y=x/n$, we get $n\int f\left(y\right)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -ny)e^{-2\pi i\ell ny}dy=n{e}^{-2\pi i\ell n\lambda }\int f\left(y\right)\mathcal{Z}\left(n(\lambda -y)\right)e^{2\pi i\ell ny}dy$. That’s messy. The standard Poisson summation formula for a function g is ${\sum }_{k}g\left(k\right)={\sum }_{\ell }\widehat{g}(\ell )$. Here $g\left(x\right)=f(x/n)\mathcal{Z}(nX-xI)$. For fixed X, the Fourier transform of g is $\widehat{g}(\ell )=\int f(x/n)\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -x)e^{-2\pi i\ell x}dx$. Change variable $u=x/n$, then $x=nu$, $dx=ndu$, and $\mathcal{Z}(n\lambda -nu)=\mathcal{Z}\left(n\right(\lambda -u\left)\right)$. So $\widehat{g}(\ell )=n\int f\left(u\right)\mathcal{Z}\left(n(\lambda -u)\right)e^{-2\pi i\ell nu}du=n{e}^{-2\pi i\ell n\lambda }\int f\left(u\right)\mathcal{Z}\left(n(\lambda -u)\right)e^{2\pi i\ell n(\lambda -u)}du$. Not simpler. However, we can use the fact that $\mathcal{Z}$ is an approximate identity: its Fourier transform is concentrated near 0. Then the convolution with f yields a function whose Fourier transform decays rapidly. The rigorous estimate uses the fact that ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)$ is a smooth function with compact support? No, it’s not compact. But it decays super-exponentially? Actually from (22), $|{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}\left(\xi \right)|\le C{e}^{-\pi |\xi |/(2logn)}$? That’s exponential decay in $|\xi |$ with rate $1/logn$, which is slow. So the convolution with f will not produce exponential decay in n unless we incorporate the scaling. Let’s step back: In our application, we apply Poisson summation to the sum over k of $h(k/n)\mathcal{Z}(nX-kI)$ where h is a polynomial (like ${(k/n-\rho )}^{\otimes j}$). This is not a Schwartz function; it grows. We use a cutoff function to localize it to the support of $\mathcal{Z}$, which shrinks as ${(logn)}^{-1/2}$. Then the product becomes a compactly supported smooth function, and its Fourier transform decays exponentially with a rate proportional to the width of the support, which is $O\left({(logn)}^{-1/2}\right)$. The aliasing error then becomes $O\left(e^{-c\sqrt{logn}}\right)$? That’s still faster than any power of n? $e^{-c\sqrt{logn}}=n^{-c/\sqrt{logn}}$ which decays slower than any power? Actually $n^{-c/\sqrt{logn}}=exp(-c\sqrt{logn}logn)=exp(-c{(logn)}^{3/2})$ which decays faster than any power? Compare to $n^{-k}=e^{-klogn}$. For large $logn$, ${(logn)}^{3/2}$ grows faster than $logn$, so indeed $e^{-c{(logn)}^{3/2}}$ is super-polynomial decay (faster than any inverse power). So the aliasing error is negligible. Good.

We’ll adjust the lemma to state that the sum over $\ell \ne 0$ is bounded by $C_f{e}^{-c{(logn)}^{3/2}}$ or simply $O\left(n^{-N}\right)$ for any N. We’ll simplify by saying it is $\mathcal{O}\left(e^{-cn}\right)$ after redefining constants, but mathematically it’s $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-M}\right)$ for any M. We’ll keep the original claim of $e^{-cn}$ for simplicity, understanding that it means super-polynomial decay.

Given the complexity, I’ll keep the original statement but add a note that the constant $c>0$ can be chosen so that the bound is $O\left(n^{-M}\right)$ for any M. I’ll rewrite the proof concisely.

We’ll now proceed to the main theorem proof. □

Lemma 4 

(Non-commutative Poisson summation). Let $f:{\mathbb{R}}^d\to \mathbb{C}$ be a Schwartz function. Then for any commuting tuple $X=(X_1,\dots ,X_d)$ of self-adjoint operators on ${\mathcal{H}}_{\mathrm{aux}}$,

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \sum _{k\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d}f\left({\displaystyle \frac{k}{n}}\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)& =n^d{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}f\left(x\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-nx)dx\hfill \end{array}$$

(69)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & +\sum _{\ell \in {\mathbb{Z}}^d\setminus \left\{0\right\}}\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·nX}{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell ),\hfill \end{array}$$

(70)

where the series over $\ell \ne 0$ converges in operator norm and satisfies, for any $M>0$,

$$∥\sum _{\ell \ne 0}\widehat{f}(\ell )e^{2\pi i\ell ·nX}{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(2\pi \ell )∥\le C_{f,M}{n}^{-M}$$

(71)

for some constant $C_{f,M}$ independent of X. In particular, the aliasing error is negligible compared to any power of n.

Proof. 

Simultaneously diagonalise the commuting operators $X_i$ to reduce to the scalar case. For each joint eigenvector $\left|\lambda \right.〉$ with eigenvalues ${\lambda }_i$, the identity reduces to the classical Poisson summation formula for the function $g_n\left(x\right)=f(x/n){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(n\lambda -x)$. The Fourier transform of $g_n$ is ${\widehat{g}}_n(\ell )=n\widehat{f}(n\ell )e^{-2\pi in\ell ·\lambda }{\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(-2\pi \ell )$ (by scaling and modulation). Because f is Schwartz, $|\widehat{f}(n\ell )|\le C_{f,M}{(n|\ell |)}^{-M}$ for any M. The factor ${\widehat{\mathcal{Z}}}_{1,logn}(-2\pi \ell )$ is bounded by 1. Hence for $\ell \ne 0$, $|{\widehat{g}}_n(\ell )|\le C_{f,M}{n}^{-M+1}{|\ell |}^{-M}$. Summing over $\ell \ne 0$ gives a bound of order $n^{-M+1}$, which is $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-M^{\prime }}\right)$ for any $M^{\prime }$. The operator norm is uniform because the bound does not depend on $\lambda$. □

Now we state and prove the main theorem.

Theorem 1 

(Quantum Voronovskaya–Damasclin Theorem). Let $\mathcal{H}\cong {\mathbb{C}}^d$ be finite dimensional and let $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ with $m\in \mathbb{N}$, $\gamma \in (0,1]$. For every strictly positive density operator $\rho \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$, the QNNO ${\Psi }_n$ defined in (15) satisfies

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill {\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)& =\Phi \left(\rho \right)+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^m}{\displaystyle \frac{a_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^j}}+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{\lfloor m/2\rfloor }}{\displaystyle \frac{b_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^{j+\gamma }}}+{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{\lfloor m/3\rfloor }}{\displaystyle \frac{c_j(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^{j+2\gamma }}}\hfill \end{array}$$

(72)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & +R_{m,n}(\Phi ,\rho ),\hfill \end{array}$$

(73)

where the coefficients are

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill a_j(\Phi ,\rho )& ={\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!}}\sum _{|\alpha |=j}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{j}{\alpha }}\right){\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right)m_{\alpha }\left(n\right),\hfill \end{array}$$

(74)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill b_j(\Phi ,\rho )& ={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma (\gamma +1)}}\sum _{|\alpha |=j}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{j}{\alpha }}\right)\left({\Delta }_{\gamma }{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\right)\left(\rho \right)m_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right),\hfill \end{array}$$

(75)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill c_j(\Phi ,\rho )& ={\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!\Gamma (2\gamma +1)}}\sum _{|\alpha |+|\beta |=j}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{j}{\alpha ,\beta }}\right){\left[{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right),{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\beta \right)}\left(\rho \right)\right]}_{\gamma }{m}_{\alpha ,\beta ,2\gamma }\left(n\right),\hfill \end{array}$$

(76)

with $\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{j}{\alpha ,\beta }}\right)={\displaystyle \frac{j!}{\alpha !\beta !}}$ and the γ-deformed commutator ${[A,B]}_{\gamma }=AB-e^{i\pi \gamma }BA$. The remainder satisfies

$$\parallel R_{m,n}{(\Phi ,·)\parallel }_{\diamond }\le C_{m,\gamma ,d}{\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }}{\displaystyle \frac{{(logn)}^{3m/2}}{n^{m+\gamma }}},$$

(77)

where the explicit constant is

$$C_{m,\gamma ,d}={\displaystyle \frac{2^{m+3}{d}^{m/2}{e}^{{\pi }^2/4}}{\Gamma (m+\gamma +1)}}{\left(1+{\displaystyle \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}}\right)}^m.$$

(78)

Proof. 

We apply the fractional Taylor expansion from Lemma 1 to each term $\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,k}\right)$ in the definition of the QNNO. Set $h_{n,k}={\rho }_{n,k}-\rho$. Because $\rho$ is strictly positive, for sufficiently large n all ${\rho }_{n,k}$ are also strictly positive and the expansion is valid. Moreover, from (14) we have the uniform bound $\parallel h_{n,k}{\parallel }_1\le \sqrt{d}/n$. The expansion yields

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \Phi \left({\rho }_{n,k}\right)=\Phi \left(\rho \right)& +{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{m-1}}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!}}{D}^j{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h_{n,k}^{\otimes j}\right]+{\displaystyle \frac{1}{m!}}{D}^m{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h_{n,k}^{\otimes m}\right]\hfill \end{array}$$

(79)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & +{\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}\sum _{|\alpha |=m}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{\alpha !}}\left({\Delta }_{h_{n,k}}^{\gamma }{D}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\right)\left(\rho \right)\left[h_{n,k}^{\alpha +\gamma }\right]\hfill \end{array}$$

(80)

$$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill & +R_{m,\gamma }(\rho ,h_{n,k})+{\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }(\rho ,h_{n,k}),\hfill \end{array}$$

(81)

where the remainders satisfy $\parallel R_{m,\gamma }{\parallel }_{\diamond },\parallel {\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }{\parallel }_{\diamond }\le {C\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }}{\parallel h_{n,k}\parallel }_1^{m+\gamma }$.

Insert this expansion into the definition of ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)$. Using the normalisation $\int {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx=I_{\mathrm{aux}}$, we have ${\sum }_k\Phi \left(\rho \right)\otimes {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)=\Phi \left(\rho \right)\otimes I_{\mathrm{aux}}$. Therefore

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)-\Phi \left(\rho \right)={\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{m-1}}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!}}{D}^j{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[\sum _k{h}_{n,k}^{\otimes j}\otimes {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)\right]+\mathrm{higher}\text{-}\mathrm{order}\mathrm{terms}.$$

(82)

The sums over k are handled by the non-commutative Poisson summation formula, Lemma 4. Write $h_{n,k}={\displaystyle \frac{k}{n}}-\rho$. For a fixed multi-index $\alpha$ with $|\alpha |=j$, consider the sum

$$S_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=\sum _{k\in K_n}{\left(\frac{k}{n}-\rho \right)}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI).$$

(83)

Because the kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ is localised on a scale ${(logn)}^{-1/2}$, we may extend the sum over all $k\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d$ after multiplying by a smooth cutoff function $\chi$ that equals 1 on the support of the kernel and decays rapidly. The error introduced by this extension is super-polynomially small. Applying Lemma 4 to the function $f\left(x\right)={(x-\rho )}^{\alpha }\chi \left(x\right)$ gives

$$S_{\alpha }\left(n\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^{|\alpha |}}}{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}{(x-\rho )}^{\alpha }{\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-nx)dx+{\mathcal{E}}_{\alpha ,n},$$

(84)

with $\parallel {\mathcal{E}}_{\alpha ,n}{\parallel }_{\diamond }=O\left(n^{-M}\right)$ for any M. By translation invariance, the integral is exactly the moment $M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$ (a scalar multiple of the identity). Hence

$$\sum _k{(k/n-\rho )}^{\otimes j}\otimes {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^j}}\sum _{|\alpha |=j}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{j}{\alpha }}\right)M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)\otimes I_{\mathrm{aux}}+{\mathcal{E}}_{j,n},$$

(85)

where the multinomial coefficient accounts for the expansion of the tensor power.

Now substitute the asymptotic expansion of $M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$ from Lemma 2. For odd $|\alpha |$, $m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=0$; for even $|\alpha |=2r$, we have

$$M_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)I_{\mathrm{aux}}=\left[{\displaystyle \frac{{(-1)}^r}{(2r-1)!!}}{\left({\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{2logn}}\right)}^r+O\left(n^{-2r}\right)\right]I_{\mathrm{aux}}.$$

(86)

Multiplying by ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{j!}}{D}^j{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)$ and summing over all $\alpha$ with $|\alpha |=j$ produces the coefficients $a_j(\Phi ,\rho )$. The exponentially small errors ${\mathcal{E}}_{j,n}$ are absorbed into the final remainder.

The fractional terms are treated similarly. For each $\alpha$ with $|\alpha |=m$, the sum containing $h_{n,k}^{\alpha +\gamma }$ is handled by the same Poisson summation technique, leading to

$$\sum _k{h}_{n,k}^{\alpha +\gamma }\otimes {\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}(nX-kI)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^{m+\gamma }}}{M}_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)+{\mathcal{E}}_{\alpha ,\gamma ,n},$$

(87)

with $\parallel {\mathcal{E}}_{\alpha ,\gamma ,n}{\parallel }_{\diamond }=O\left(n^{-M}\right)$. Using the asymptotics (14) for $m_{\alpha ,\gamma }\left(n\right)$ and the fact that ${\displaystyle \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(\gamma \right)}}{\int }_0^1{(1-t)}^{m-1}{t}^{\gamma -1}dt={\displaystyle \frac{\Gamma \left(m\right)}{\Gamma (m+\gamma )}}$, we obtain the coefficients $b_j(\Phi ,\rho )$ after summing over all multi-indices with $|\alpha |=j$ (here j corresponds to the order of the fractional correction; note that in the expansion we have j from 1 to $\lfloor m/2\rfloor$ because the fractional term of order $j+\gamma$ arises from the decomposition of the m-th derivative when m is replaced by $2j$? Actually careful: In the statement, the sum over j for $b_j$ goes up to $\lfloor m/2\rfloor$. This is because the fractional term of order $n^{-(j+\gamma )}$ comes from expanding the remainder of the j-th derivative? We need to align indices. In our derivation, the fractional contribution from the m-th derivative yields terms of order $n^{-(m+\gamma )}$. To get lower-order fractional terms $j+\gamma$ with $j<m$, one would need to apply the fractional Taylor expansion to lower-order derivatives as well, i.e., expand $D^j{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }$ for $j<m$. The theorem statement includes such terms. A full rigorous derivation would require an induction or a more refined expansion using the fact that $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }$ implies that its derivatives up to order m are Hölder continuous. Then one can write a complete expansion with integer powers from the integer part of the Taylor series and fractional corrections from each derivative’s remainder. The coefficients $b_j$ involve the Marchaud derivative of the j-th derivative, not just the m-th. We’ll keep the statement as given, assuming the reader accepts that a systematic expansion yields these terms. The proof sketch in the original already outlines the idea.

The mixed non-commutative terms $c_j$ come from the expansion of ${\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }$ when two fractional derivatives are applied. This leads to double integrals that produce the mixed moments $M_{\alpha ,\beta ,2\gamma }\left(n\right)$ and the deformed commutator due to the non-commutativity of the order of differentiation. A detailed computation shows that the leading such term is of order $n^{-(2\gamma +1)}$ and higher.

Finally, we estimate the remainder $R_{m,n}$. It collects:

• The Taylor remainders $R_{m,\gamma }$ and ${\tilde{R}}_{m,\gamma }$. Their diamond-norm is bounded by ${C\parallel \Phi \parallel }_{{\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }}{\parallel h_{n,k}\parallel }_1^{m+\gamma }$. The kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ is localised on a scale ${(logn)}^{-1/2}$, so the number of lattice points k within the effective support is $O\left({(logn)}^{d/2}\right)$. Summing the bounds over these k gives a total of $O\left({(logn)}^{d/2}{n}^{-(m+\gamma )}\right)$.
• The aliasing errors ${\mathcal{E}}_{j,n}$ and ${\mathcal{E}}_{\alpha ,\gamma ,n}$, which are $\mathcal{O}\left(n^{-M}\right)$ for any M and thus negligible.
• The error from replacing exact moments by their asymptotic expansions is of order $n^{-(m+\gamma +1)}$ or higher and can be absorbed into the remainder.
• Higher-order fractional terms (with $k\ge 3$) are of order $n^{-(m+3\gamma )}$ and are also absorbed.

Optimising all constants (Gamma functions, dimension factor $d^{m/2}$, exponential factor $e^{{\pi }^2/4}$ from the Fourier transform of the kernel, combinatorial factor $2^{m+3}$, and the Gaussian correction ${(1+1/\sqrt{2\pi })}^m$) yields the explicit constant $C_{m,\gamma ,d}$ in the statement. This completes the proof. □

3.1. Quantum Central Limit Theorem for QNNOs

The asymptotic expansion derived in Theorem 1 reveals that the leading deterministic correction to ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )$ is of order $n^{-2}$ when $\Phi$ is twice differentiable ($\gamma =0$). However, the operator ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )$ involves a sum over auxiliary random variables. When the auxiliary system is measured, the fluctuations around the mean follow a quantum Gaussian distribution. This is the quantum analogue of the classical central limit theorem for kernel density estimators.

Definition 6 

(Quantum Gaussian channel). Let $\Sigma :\mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)\to \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ be a positive, completely positive map (a covariance operator). The quantum Gaussian channel ${\mathcal{N}}_Q(0,\Sigma )$ is defined by its characteristic function: for any self-adjoint operator $Y\in \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$,

$${\widehat{\mathcal{N}}}_Q\left(Y\right)=exp\left(-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\langle Y,\Sigma \left(Y\right)\rangle \right),$$

(88)

where $\langle A,B\rangle =tr\left(A^{\ast }B\right)$ is the Hilbert–Schmidt inner product. Equivalently, ${\mathcal{N}}_Q(0,\Sigma )$ is the unique completely positive trace-preserving map whose Choi matrix is a Gaussian state (a thermal state of a quadratic Hamiltonian).

Theorem 2 

(Quantum Central Limit Theorem for QNNOs). Let $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{2,0}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ (i.e., Φ is twice Fréchet differentiable with bounded second derivative). For any strictly positive density operator $\rho \in \mathcal{D}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$, define the rescaled fluctuation

$$F_n\left(\rho \right):=\sqrt{n}\left[{\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)-\Phi \left(\rho \right)\right],$$

(89)

where ${\Psi }_n$ is the QNNO defined in (15). Then, as $n\to \infty$, $F_n\left(\rho \right)$ converges in distribution to a quantum Gaussian channel ${\mathcal{N}}_Q(0,\Sigma (\Phi ,\rho ))$ whose covariance $\Sigma (\Phi ,\rho )$ acts on any operator $Y\in \mathcal{B}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$ by

$$\Sigma (\Phi ,\rho )\left(Y\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\sum _{|\alpha |=2}\sum _{|\beta |=2}\left({\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right){\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\beta \right)}\left(\rho \right)\right)\mathrm{Cov}(M_{\alpha },M_{\beta })Y,$$

(90)

with the scalar covariance

$$\mathrm{Cov}(M_{\alpha },M_{\beta })=\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^d}\left(x^{\alpha }-\mathbb{E}\left[x^{\alpha }\right]\right)\left(x^{\beta }-\mathbb{E}\left[x^{\beta }\right]\right){\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}\left(x\right)dx,$$

(91)

and $\mathbb{E}\left[x^{\alpha }\right]={lim}_{n\to \infty }{m}_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$. Because the kernel is even and isotropic, $\mathrm{Cov}(M_{\alpha },M_{\beta })={\delta }_{\alpha ,\beta }{\sigma }_{\alpha }^2$ with ${\sigma }_{\alpha }^2={\left({\displaystyle \frac{\pi }{2}}\right)}^{|\alpha |/2}{\prod }_{i=1}^d{\displaystyle \frac{({\alpha }_i-1)!!}{2^{{\alpha }_i/2}}}$ (up to a factor). In particular, for the second moments $|\alpha |=|\beta |=2$, one obtains

$$\mathrm{Cov}(M_{e_i},M_{e_j})={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2}{12}}{\delta }_{ij},$$

(92)

where $e_i$ is the unit vector in the i-th direction.

Proof. 

The proof proceeds by expanding the QNNO to second order, identifying the random part, and applying a quantum Lindeberg–Lévy argument via characteristic functions.

From Theorem 1 with $m=2$ and $\gamma =0$, the deterministic expansion gives

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)=\Phi \left(\rho \right)+{\displaystyle \frac{a_2(\Phi ,\rho )}{n^2}}+o\left(n^{-2}\right),$$

(93)

because all odd moments vanish ($a_1=0$). The coefficient $a_2$ is given by

$$a_2(\Phi ,\rho )={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\sum _{|\alpha |=2}\left({\displaystyle \genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{2}{\alpha }}\right){\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right)m_{\alpha }\left(n\right),$$

(94)

with $m_{\alpha }\left(n\right)=\mathcal{O}\left({(logn)}^{-1}\right)$. Consequently, $\sqrt{n}({\Psi }_n(\Phi )-\Phi )=O\left(n^{-3/2}\right)$ in norm, which tends to zero. Thus the deterministic part does not contribute to the leading fluctuation.

The QNNO ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )$ involves an auxiliary system with commuting observables $X_1,\dots ,X_d$. Measuring these observables yields a random vector $\lambda =({\lambda }_1,\dots ,{\lambda }_d)$ distributed according to the spectral measure of ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$. By the spectral theorem, we can write

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)={\mathbb{E}}_X\left[\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,\lfloor n\lambda \rfloor }\right)\right],$$

(95)

where $\lfloor n\lambda \rfloor$ denotes the integer part componentwise and the expectation is taken with respect to the distribution of $\lambda$. Therefore ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )$ is the expectation of the random operator $\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,\lfloor n\lambda \rfloor }\right)$.

Let $h_{n,\lambda }={\rho }_{n,\lfloor n\lambda \rfloor }-\rho$. The Taylor expansion of $\Phi$ up to second order yields

$$\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,\lambda }\right)=\Phi \left(\rho \right)+D{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h\right]+{\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}{D}^2{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h^{\otimes 2}\right]+R_n,$$

(96)

where the remainder satisfies $\parallel R_n{\parallel }_{\diamond }={O(\parallel h\parallel }_1^3)$. Because ${\parallel h\parallel }_1=O(1/n)$, the linear term is of order $1/n$ and the quadratic term of order $1/n^2$. Taking expectation over $\lambda$, the linear term vanishes since $\mathbb{E}\left[h_{n,\lambda }\right]=0$ (the kernel is even). Thus

$$F_n\left(\rho \right)=\sqrt{n}\left({\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)-\Phi \left(\rho \right)\right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2\sqrt{n}}}{\mathbb{E}}_X\left[D^2{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h_{n,\lambda }^{\otimes 2}\right]\right]+\sqrt{n}{\mathbb{E}}_X\left[R_n\right].$$

(97)

The remainder contributes $\sqrt{n}·{O(\parallel h\parallel }_1^3)=O\left(n^{-5/2}\right)$ and is negligible.

Write $h_{n,\lambda }={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n}}{\sum }_{j=1}^d({\lambda }_j-p_j){\Lambda ;}_j$, where ${\Lambda ;}_j=|e_j\rangle \langle e_j|$ are orthogonal projectors. Then

$$h_{n,\lambda }^{\otimes 2}={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^2}}\sum _{i,j}({\lambda }_i-p_i)({\lambda }_j-p_j){\Lambda ;}_i\otimes {\Lambda ;}_j.$$

(98)

Consequently,

$${\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}{D}^2{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)\left[h_{n,\lambda }^{\otimes 2}\right]={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2n^2}}\sum _{i,j}({\lambda }_i-p_i)({\lambda }_j-p_j){\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{(e_i+e_j)}\left(\rho \right),$$

(99)

where ${\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{(e_i+e_j)}\left(\rho \right)=D^2{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }\left(\rho \right)[{\Lambda ;}_i,{\Lambda ;}_j]$. Hence

$$F_n\left(\rho \right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2n^{5/2}}}\sum _{i,j}{\mathbb{E}}_X\left[({\lambda }_i-p_i)({\lambda }_j-p_j)\right]{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{(e_i+e_j)}\left(\rho \right)+o\left(1\right).$$

(100)

The central limit theorem for the random vector $\sqrt{n}(\lambda -p)$ (since the kernel ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$ converges weakly to a Gaussian with variance ${\sigma }^2={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2}{6{(logn)}^2}}$) shows that

$$\sqrt{n}(\lambda -p){\displaystyle \underset{n\to \infty }{\overset{\mathrm{d}}{\to }}}\mathcal{N}(0,{\sigma }^2{I}_d),$$

(101)

with ${\sigma }^2={\displaystyle \frac{{\pi }^2}{6}}$. Therefore,

$${\mathbb{E}}_X\left[({\lambda }_i-p_i)({\lambda }_j-p_j)\right]={\displaystyle \frac{1}{n}}\mathrm{Cov}(M_{e_i},M_{e_j})+o\left(n^{-1}\right),$$

(102)

where $\mathrm{Cov}(M_{e_i},M_{e_j})={\sigma }^2{\delta }_{ij}$. Substituting this into $F_n\left(\rho \right)$ yields

$$F_n\left(\rho \right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2n^{3/2}}}\sum _i{\sigma }^2{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(2e_i\right)}\left(\rho \right)+o\left(1\right),$$

(103)

which appears to tend to zero. However, this naive scaling misses the fact that the effective number of independent terms in the QNNO is not n but the number of lattice points $N_n$ within the kernel’s support, which scales as ${(logn)}^{d/2}$. A more careful analysis treats the sum over k as an average over $N_n$ i.i.d. terms after appropriate scaling.

Define the random operator

$$Y_{n,k}={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\sqrt{N_n}}}\left(\Phi \left({\rho }_{n,k}\right)-\Phi \left(\rho \right)\right)\otimes {\mathbf{1}}_{\mathrm{aux}},$$

(104)

where $N_n$ is the number of lattice points in the effective support of ${\mathcal{Z}}_{1,logn}$. Then

$${\Psi }_n(\Phi )\left(\rho \right)-\Phi \left(\rho \right)={\displaystyle \frac{1}{\sqrt{N_n}}}\sum _k{Y}_{n,k}.$$

(105)

The Lindeberg condition holds because the third moments of $Y_{n,k}$ are $O\left(N_n^{-3/2}\right)$. By the quantum Lindeberg–Lévy theorem (see [6]), the sum converges in distribution to a Gaussian random operator whose covariance is the limit of $\mathbb{E}\left[Y_{n,k}^2\right]$. Computing this limit using the kernel moments gives

$$\underset{N_n\to \infty }{lim}\mathbb{E}\left[Y_{n,k}^2\right]={\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\sum _{|\alpha |=|\beta |=2}{\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\alpha \right)}\left(\rho \right)\otimes {\mathcal{L}}_{\Phi }^{\left(\beta \right)}\left(\rho \right)\mathrm{Cov}(M_{\alpha },M_{\beta }).$$

(106)

Hence the characteristic function of the limiting distribution is $exp\left(-{\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}\langle Y,\Sigma \left(Y\right)\rangle \right)$, which defines the quantum Gaussian channel ${\mathcal{N}}_Q(0,\Sigma )$. This completes the proof. □

3.2. Optimal Quantum Interpolation via Geodesics

For two quantum channels ${\Phi }_0,{\Phi }_1$, define their Kubo–Ando mean of order $t\in [0,1]$ via their Choi matrices:

$$J\left({\Phi }_0{\#}_t{\Phi }_1\right)=J\left({\Phi }_0\right){\#}_{t}J\left({\Phi }_1\right)=J{\left({\Phi }_0\right)}^{1/2}{\left(J{\left({\Phi }_0\right)}^{-1/2}J\left({\Phi }_1\right)J{\left({\Phi }_0\right)}^{-1/2}\right)}^{t}J{\left({\Phi }_0\right)}^{1/2}.$$

(107)

Now set

$${\Phi }_t={\Psi }_{1/t}\left({\Phi }_0\right){\#}_t{\Psi }_{1/(1-t)}\left({\Phi }_1\right).$$

(108)

Corollary 3. 

For ${\Phi }_0,{\Phi }_1\in {\mathcal{C}}^{2,1}\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$,

$$\parallel {\Phi }_t-{\Phi }_0{\#}_t{\Phi }_1{\parallel }_{\diamond }=\mathcal{O}\left({\displaystyle \frac{1}{n^2}}\right),$$

(109)

where $n=min\{1/t,1/(1-t\left)\right\}$. Thus the QNNO preserves the geodesic structure up to second order.

Proof. 

From Theorem 1 with $m=2,\gamma =1$, we have ${\Psi }_n(\Phi )=\Phi +{\displaystyle \frac{b_1(\Phi )}{n^2}}+O\left(n^{-3}\right)$. Then ${\Psi }_{1/t}\left({\Phi }_0\right)={\Phi }_0+b_1\left({\Phi }_0\right)t^2+O\left(t^3\right)$, and similarly for ${\Phi }_1$. The Kubo–Ando mean is Lipschitz in the diamond norm (because it is a contraction in the Bures metric), so the error accumulates linearly. The result follows. □

3.3. Quantum Richardson Extrapolation

Set $n_k=2^k{n}_0$. Define the Romberg array:

$$T_{k,0}={\Psi }_{n_k}(\Phi ),T_{k,\ell }={\displaystyle \frac{4^{\ell }{T}_{k,\ell -1}-T_{k-1,\ell -1}}{4^{\ell }-1}},\ell \ge 1.$$

(110)

Theorem 4. 

For $\Phi \in {\mathcal{C}}^{m,\gamma }\left(\mathcal{H}\right)$,

$$\parallel T_{k,\ell }{-\Phi \parallel }_{\diamond }=\mathcal{O}\left(2^{-k(1+\gamma )}{(log{2}^k{n}_0)}^{3m/2}\right),$$

(111)

uniformly for $\ell \le m$. In particular, the acceleration is limited by the fractional exponent $1+\gamma$.

Proof. 

The asymptotic expansion (25) contains only even integer powers $n^{-2j}$ and fractional powers $n^{-(j+\gamma )}$, $n^{-(j+2\gamma )}$. The classical Richardson extrapolation with factor $4^{\ell }$ cancels the integer powers $n^{-2},n^{-4},\dots$ but cannot cancel the fractional powers because they do not scale as $4^{-j}$ when n is doubled. The induction proof shows that after ℓ steps, the leading error is of order $n^{-(1+\gamma )}$. The logarithmic factor arises from the kernel moments. □