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Appendix A Version 2

Supplied complete-input copies and global terminal repair

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This appendix preserves a stronger-resource construction from [M11]. It is not a local measurement of one unknown input with an inaccessible reference. The apparatus is supplied with independent copies of the entire pure input bank, including its internal reference entanglement, and the final repair can act jointly on that entire bank. Native probes estimate currents from those copies; a record-driven classical pump feeds the scalar pair chemistry; further finite tomography determines an approximate global terminal gate. These resources give a nonempty conditional construction of original Hamiltonian Bell paths and terminal daughters.

The distinction matters mathematically. At fixed unknown pure input ψ\psi, the initial source is

PψtargetPψM,Pψ=ψψ.P_\psi^{\mathrm{target}}\otimes P_\psi^{\otimes M}, \qquad P_\psi=|\psi\rangle\langle\psi|. (A.1)

The copies are supplied by an independent preparation conditional on the actual ψ\psi; they are not cloned from the target. For an actual ensemble μ\mu, its complete preparation is Pψ(M+1)μ(dψ)\int P_\psi^{\otimes(M+1)}\mu(d\psi), which is not determined by Pψμ(dψ)\int P_\psi\mu(d\psi). Thus two single-copy-equivalent ensembles need not give the same statistics for this apparatus. No single-input affinity obstruction is evaded by silently deleting these resources.

A.1 Finite native current pilots

Fix a finite sector graph, finite physical horizon TT and bounded deterministic piecewise C1C^1 Hamiltonian programme H(t)H(t) on the complete dd-dimensional pure bank. For one orientation e=(r,q)e=(r,q) of each of its EE bonds, in units =1\hbar=1 put

Ae(t)=PqH(t)PrPrH(t)Pqi,Je(t)=ψt,Ae(t)ψt,Ae(t)a,iψ˙t=H(t)ψt.A_e(t)=\frac{P_qH(t)P_r-P_rH(t)P_q}{i},\quad J_e(t)=\langle\psi_t,A_e(t)\psi_t\rangle, \quad\|A_e(t)\|\le a,\quad i\dot\psi_t=H(t)\psi_t. (A.2)

The programme makes each JeJ_e of bounded variation. Assume that the native ports Le=kAe(t)L_e=kA_e(t) are physically admitted on every pilot. Their actual law is the already supplied multichannel native law, with independent Wiener innovations for different pilots and ports:

dψj=[iHk22e(Aeaje)2]ψjdt+ke(Aeaje)ψjdWje,dYje=2kajedt+dWje,aje=ψj,Aeψj.\begin{align}d\psi_j&=\left[-iH-\frac{k^2}{2}\sum_e(A_e-a_{je})^2\right] \psi_jdt+k\sum_e(A_e-a_{je})\psi_jdW_{je},\notag\\ dY_{je}&=2ka_{je}dt+dW_{je},\qquad a_{je}=\langle\psi_j,A_e\psi_j\rangle. \tag{A.3}\end{align}

All pilot states, classical records and used resources are retained. The target receives only the same coherent H(t)H(t), not the diagnostic couplings. The controller has access to YY, not to the separate innovations WW or an unknown-wavefunction expectation wire.

Define its causal finite-bandwidth estimator by

Ze=12kMjYje,dve=ωvedt+ωdZe,ve(0)=0,J^e=clip[a,a]ve.Z_e=\frac1{2kM}\sum_jY_{je},\qquad dv_e=-\omega v_e dt+\omega dZ_e,\quad v_e(0)=0, \qquad\widehat J_e=\operatorname{clip}_{[-a,a]}v_e. (A.4)

The filters, their clocks and every controller coordinate belong to the complete classical bank. Their coefficients use known apparatus calibrations only.

Theorem A.1 (Integrated current estimation)

For the independent native pilots,

E0TJ^eJedtJe(0)+Var[0,T]Jeω+k2Ea3T2+aTM+Tω8k2M.\mathbb E\int_0^T|\widehat J_e-J_e|dt \le\frac{|J_e(0)|+\operatorname{Var}_{[0,T]}J_e}{\omega} +k^2Ea^3T^2+\frac{aT}{\sqrt M} +T\sqrt{\frac{\omega}{8k^2M}}. (A.5)

In particular, k2=M1/4k^2=M^{-1/4} and ω=M1/4\omega=M^{1/4} give bM:=eE0TJ^eJedt=O(M1/4)b_M:=\sum_e\mathbb E\int_0^T|\widehat J_e-J_e|dt =O(M^{-1/4}) for the fixed programme.

Proof

The mean pilot state obeys ρ˙k=i[H,ρk]+k2eD[Ae]ρk\dot\rho_k=-i[H,\rho_k]+k^2\sum_e\mathcal D[A_e]\rho_k, where D[A]ρ=AρA{A2,ρ}/2\mathcal D[A]\rho=A\rho A-\{A^2,\rho\}/2. For a density matrix D[A]ρ12a2\|\mathcal D[A]\rho\|_1\le2a^2. Variation of constants in the interaction picture therefore gives ρk(t)Pψt12k2Ea2t\|\rho_k(t)-P_{\psi_t}\|_1\le2k^2Ea^2t and a current bias at most 2k2Ea3t2k^2Ea^3t. Independence and ajea|a_{je}|\le a give EM1jajeEa1ea/M\mathbb E|M^{-1}\sum_ja_{je}-\mathbb E a_{1e}|\le a/\sqrt M.

Let Kωf(t)=ω0teω(ts)f(s)dsK_\omega f(t)=\omega\int_0^te^{-\omega(t-s)}f(s)ds. This convolution contracts L1([0,T])L^1([0,T]). The filter is the sum of KωJeK_\omega J_e, the convolutions of the bias and empirical error, and the noise Ue(t)=ω(2kM)10teω(ts)dBe(s)U_e(t)=\omega(2k\sqrt M)^{-1} \int_0^te^{-\omega(t-s)}dB_e(s), where Be=M1/2jWjeB_e=M^{-1/2}\sum_jW_{je} is Brownian. It need not be independent of the empirical mean. Integration against the variation measure of JeJ_e, including the initial zero-filter transient and programme switches, gives KωJeJe(Je(0)+VarJe)/ω\int|K_\omega J_e-J_e| \le(|J_e(0)|+\operatorname{Var}J_e)/\omega. The integrated bias is at most k2Ea3T2k^2Ea^3T^2 and the empirical term at most aT/MaT/\sqrt M. Itô isometry gives EUe(t)2=ω(1e2ωt)/(8k2M)\mathbb E U_e(t)^2=\omega(1-e^{-2\omega t})/(8k^2M); Cauchy–Schwarz and integration give the last term. Clipping cannot increase distance to Je[a,a]J_e\in[-a,a]. The stated scales balance all dominant errors at O(M1/4)O(M^{-1/4}).

A.2 Record-driven pumping and a robust scalar-pair bridge

Supply a classical reservoir with Π^˙e=J^e\dot{\widehat\Pi}_e=\widehat J_e, debiting its signed account by the same amount. Two directional accounts of size aTaT per edge suffice. This is a record-driven charge pump in the classical controller, not the forbidden passive classical expectation meter. Its equality with the coherent norm current is approximate, whereas its own charge accounting is exact.

Export packets of charge 1/N1/N at residual thresholds ±1/N\pm1/N and reset the residual after each export. The cumulative export satisfies

AN,e(t)=0tJ^e(s)ds+eN,e(t),supteN,e(t)N1.A_{N,e}(t)=\int_0^t\widehat J_e(s)ds+e_{N,e}(t), \qquad\sup_t|e_{N,e}(t)|\le N^{-1}. (A.6)

The total export count is at most NEaT+O(E)NEaT+O(E). Opposite packets cancel; a packet with an empty origin waits. Every eligible packet/carrier pair reacts at coefficient κeμN/N\kappa_e\mu_N/N with fixed 0<κκeκ+0<\kappa_-\le\kappa_e\le\kappa_+. This is precisely the scalar pair model of Theorem 4.1, with its supplied Markov chemistry and complete participation. It does not use a separately prescribed normalized destination allocator from an earlier model. Fixed-tag division by its origin population is therefore the pair-counting identity (4.3), not a new statistical controller instruction.

Theorem A.2 (Robust current forcing and complete tagged paths)

Keep the fixed finite graph, bounded-variation target currents, coherent nodal bound of (3.2), initially empty queues and the scalar chemistry just specified. Suppose bounded predictable J^\widehat J obeys bN=eEJ^eJe0b_N=\sum_e\mathbb E\int|\widehat J_e-J_e|\to0. Assume calibrated carrier populations xN(0)w(0)x_N(0)\to w(0) and compatible fixed-tag laws νNνCw(0)\nu_N\to\nu\le Cw(0). If μN\mu_N\to\infty and μN/N0\mu_N/N\to0, directional flux errors, uniform population errors and total variation of the entire tagged path relative to the physical-time Hamiltonian Bell process tend to zero. No condition μNbN0\mu_Nb_N\to0 is needed.

Proof

Only the additional forcing estimates in the already-proved scalar tracking and node localization arguments need modification. At fixed population cutoff δ>0\delta>0, use their companion service ϕt(u)=a+(t)[u]+a(t)[u]+\phi_t(u)=a_+(t)[u]_+-a_-(t)[-u]_+ with divided-difference slopes in [a0,a1]=[κδ,κ+][a_0,a_1]=[\kappa_-\delta,\kappa_+]. Each escape consumes an export, so the variation bound on the physical population, and hence the coefficients, remains uniform because the exports are bounded.

After removing the exporter error and reaction martingale, let y^\widehat y solve y^˙=μN(J^ϕt(y^))\dot{\widehat y}=\mu_N(\widehat J-\phi_t(\widehat y)). For the same realized coefficient history let y˙J=μN(Jϕt(yJ))\dot y_J=\mu_N(J-\phi_t(y_J)), with matching zero starts. Scalar monotonicity gives pathwise

ddty^yJμNJ^JμNa0y^yJ,0Ty^yJdta010TJ^Jdt. \frac d{dt}|\widehat y-y_J| \le\mu_N|\widehat J-J|-\mu_Na_0|\widehat y-y_J|, \qquad \int_0^T|\widehat y-y_J|dt \le a_0^{-1}\int_0^T|\widehat J-J|dt.

This is why forcing error is not multiplied by the fast scale in the integrated flux bound. The remaining exporter and martingale estimates of Theorem 4.1 use only the uniform bound y^a/a0\|\widehat y\|_\infty\le a/a_0 and coefficient variation, which still hold. Root tracking uses the bounded variation of the original JJ, not the noisy J^\widehat J. Consequently

Rδ,NCδ(μN1+μN/N+μN/N+bN).R_{\delta,N}\le C_\delta\left( \mu_N^{-1}+\mu_N/N+\sqrt{\mu_N/N}+b_N\right). (A.7)

The exact population/queue balance acquires only the accumulated forcing term:

xN+BzNw=xN(0)w(0)+BeN+B0t(J^J)ds. x_N+Bz_N-w=x_N(0)-w(0)+B e_N+ B\int_0^t(\widehat J-J)ds.

Its expected uniform size is bounded by ηN=xN(0)w(0)+CB/N+CBbN\eta_N=\|x_N(0)-w(0)\|_\infty+C_B/N+C_Bb_N. The low-population argument of (4.11) therefore gives, with nn sectors and L=EaT+O(N1)L=EaT+O(N^{-1}),

Dδ,NCHT(nδT+LκμNδ+nTηN),ϵF,N3Rδ,N+2Dδ,N. D_{\delta,N}\le C_H\sqrt{T\left(n\delta T+ \frac{L}{\kappa_-\mu_N\delta}+nT\eta_N\right)}, \qquad\epsilon_{F,N}\le3R_{\delta,N}+2D_{\delta,N}.

Taking NN\to\infty and then δ0\delta\downarrow0 proves directional flux convergence. The population martingale and conservation then give ϵx,N0\epsilon_{x,N}\to0 exactly as in the baseline proof. The fixed-tag hazard is unchanged as a function of the complete reaction state. Thus Theorem 4.3 applies its same regular-level node localization, with the new ϵF,ϵx\epsilon_F,\epsilon_x, to give full path-law convergence, including exact event times. Initial-law error costs TV(νN,ν)\operatorname{TV}(\nu_N,\nu). This transfer uses the actual scalar generator, not mean-current agreement alone.

One simultaneous realization is

M=N,k2=N1/4,ω=N1/4,μN=N1/3.M=N,\quad k^2=N^{-1/4},\quad\omega=N^{1/4},\quad\mu_N=N^{1/3}. (A.8)

Then Rδ,N=Oδ(N1/4)R_{\delta,N}=O_\delta(N^{-1/4}). Nodal localization gives convergence for each fixed admitted complete input; no uniform input-independent global path rate is asserted. The total diagnostic coupling action is bounded by Ea2TN3/4Ea^2TN^{3/4}; packet and reaction archives have O(NEaT)O(NEaT) entries. An undersized bank must retain its exhaustion branch. The initial population calibration remains a resource premise: when all admissible inputs start in one known ready sector, w(0)w(0) and the tag start are fixed without Born sampling. For general w(0)w(0) this appendix assumes their preparation rather than deriving it from the pilots. Continuous native pointer coordinates and calibrated clocks remain declared ideal resources on each finite horizon; the entry count is not a bound on their numerical recording precision.

A.3 Retained pilots and a terminal continuation obstruction

Assume the pilot bank is autonomous: no queue, tag or reaction archive feeds back into it, and its initial state and stochastic primitives are independent of reaction primitives conditional on ψ\psi. Conditioning on its whole actual output YY then fixes a bounded forcing J^(Y)\widehat J(Y) without changing the reaction clocks. Applying the preceding estimates with the conditional forcing error and integrating proves

δjoint,N:=TV(L(QN,Yψ),L(QψB)L(Yψ))0.\delta_{\mathrm{joint},N}:= \operatorname{TV}\left(\mathcal L(Q_N,Y\mid\psi), \mathcal L(Q^B_\psi)\otimes\mathcal L(Y\mid\psi)\right) \longrightarrow0. (A.9)

The L1L^1 forcing estimate and concavity in the low-population bound justify the averaging. The same pilot-state conditional kernel, including its retained quantum resources, can be attached on both sides and preserves the bound in CQ trace distance. An ensemble mixture keeps the common latent ψ\psi in both factors; it is not generally the product of marginal mixture laws.

The target, however, has remained exactly PψtP_{\psi_t} conditional on the pilot and tag history at fixed ψ\psi. It has not acquired a selected sector daughter. With Born initialization, a subsequent sharp sector benchmark independent of that tag has repeat probability qwq2\sum_qw_q^2, rather than one. Postselecting agreement of two independent labels would produce weights proportional to wq2w_q^2; for w=(3/4,1/4)w=(3/4,1/4) the rejection probability is 3/83/8 and the accepted weights are (9/10,1/10)(9/10,1/10). Keeping those rejects defines a different experiment; deleting them is not a continuation repair.

Nor does (A.9) automatically include microscopic queues, other carrier histories or cancellation archives. They are not functions of the autonomous YY and no ideal common kernel for their returns has been proved. They require a stated no-return domain or a new benchmark-extension theorem.

A.4 Finite native tomography and the global repair

Now additionally assume that the entire target bank is controllable, including S+RS+R if they are internally entangled. After a disclosed embedding let d=2sd=2^s. Supply (d21)m(d^2-1)m further independent complete input copies, independent of production conditional on ψ\psi. Allocate mm to each nonidentity Pauli matrix WW_\ell. During a known calibration hold, use a finite native monitor L=kcalWL=k_{\mathrm{cal}}W_\ell for time τ\tau. Its sign record has

P(sj=+1)=1+vWψ2,v=12Φ(2kcalτ)>0,a^=1mvjsj.\mathbb P(s_{\ell j}=+1)=\frac{1+v\langle W_\ell\rangle_\psi}{2}, \quad v=1-2\Phi(-2k_{\mathrm{cal}}\sqrt\tau)>0, \quad\widehat a_\ell=\frac1{mv}\sum_js_{\ell j}. (A.10)

This follows from the actual native eigenrecord normals with means ±2kcalτ\pm2k_{\mathrm{cal}}\tau and variance τ\tau. Thus calibration is finite and its visibility is corrected, rather than replaced by an exact Born projective measurement. It still uses the native statistical primitive.

Lemma A.3 (Pure-input estimation with finite records)

Set ρ^=d1(I+a^W)\widehat\rho=d^{-1}(I+\sum_\ell\widehat a_\ell W_\ell) and choose a top eigenvector uu by a fixed measurable tie rule. Then, with e=minαueiαψe=\min_\alpha\|u-e^{i\alpha}\psi\|,

Eρ^PψF2dmv2,PuPψF2ρ^PψF,Ee2dmv2.\mathbb E\|\widehat\rho-P_\psi\|_F^2\le\frac d{mv^2}, \quad\|P_u-P_\psi\|_F\le2\|\widehat\rho-P_\psi\|_F, \quad\mathbb E e\le2\sqrt{\frac d{mv^2}}. (A.11)
Proof

Each visibility-corrected estimator is unbiased and has variance at most 1/(mv2)1/(mv^2). Pauli orthogonality gives mean squared Frobenius error at most (d21)/(dmv2)d/(mv2)(d^2-1)/(dmv^2)\le d/(mv^2). A top eigenvector minimizes ρ^PF\|\widehat\rho-P\|_F over pure projectors, even when ρ^\widehat\rho is not positive. Its triangle inequality therefore gives the middle claim. For unit vectors with phase aligned, e2=2(1u,ψ)e^2=2(1-|\langle u,\psi\rangle|) and PuPψF2=2(1u,ψ2)e2\|P_u-P_\psi\|_F^2=2(1-|\langle u,\psi\rangle|^2)\ge e^2. Cauchy–Schwarz proves the last bound. Propagating uu by the known unitary programme preserves this phase distance at TT.

For terminal tag qq, define bq=PquT2b_q=\|P_qu_T\|^2. If 0<bq<10<b_q<1, set

vq=PquT/bq,zq=(vqbquT)/1bq,Kq=i(zquTuTzq),Vq=eiθqKq,θq=arccosbq.\begin{align}v_q&=P_qu_T/\sqrt{b_q},& z_q&=(v_q-\sqrt{b_q}u_T)/\sqrt{1-b_q},\notag\\ K_q&=i(|z_q\rangle\langle u_T|-|u_T\rangle\langle z_q|),& V_q&=e^{-i\theta_qK_q},\quad\theta_q=\arccos\sqrt{b_q}. \tag{A.12}\end{align}

uT,zqu_T,z_q are orthonormal and direct exponentiation gives VquT=vqV_qu_T=v_q. Use the identity at bq=1b_q=1 and also as a declared fallback at bq=0b_q=0; no run is postselected away. The construction is phase invariant. An admitted physical implementation has Hamiltonian Hq=θqKq/τfbH_q=\theta_qK_q/\tau_{\mathrm{fb}} of norm at most π/(2τfb)\pi/(2\tau_{\mathrm{fb}}), or a finite global compiler with uniform operator error uimplu_{\mathrm{impl}}. Its coefficients depend only on actual tomography records and the terminal tag. The gates must respect any additional protected charges; their universal global admission is a new resource assumption.

Theorem A.4 (Bell path and globally repaired terminal daughter)

Assume the stated complete-copy resources, autonomous pilots, Born-compatible tag initialization and global controls. For wq(T)>0w_q(T)>0 put ϕq=PqψT/wq(T)\phi_q=P_q\psi_T/\sqrt{w_q(T)}. The actual path and repaired target differ from a Bell path with terminal target PϕQTP_{\phi_{Q_T}} by CQ trace distance at most

δpath,N+6dmv2+uimpl.\delta_{\mathrm{path},N}+6\sqrt{\frac d{mv^2}}+ u_{\mathrm{impl}}. (A.13)

The independent tomography records and conditional states of used tomography specimens may be retained on both sides. Including the production pilots and their conditional quantum bank replaces δpath,N\delta_{\mathrm{path},N} by δjoint,N\delta_{\mathrm{joint},N}.

Proof

Phase-align uT,ψTu_T,\psi_T for analysis and put eq=Pq(uTψT)e_q=\|P_q(u_T-\psi_T)\|. For bq>0b_q>0, the normalized-projection inequality and unitarity give

D(PVqψT,Pϕq)min{1,e+2eq/wq}. D(P_{V_q\psi_T},P_{\phi_q}) \le\min\{1,e+2e_q/\sqrt{w_q}\}.

Indeed VquT=vqV_qu_T=v_q, so the first vector difference is at most ee; adding and subtracting PquT/wqP_qu_T/\sqrt{w_q} bounds the two normalized projections by 2eq/wq2e_q/\sqrt{w_q}. At bq=0b_q=0, eq=wqe_q=\sqrt{w_q}, so the same bound covers the fallback. Orthogonality gives qeq2=e2\sum_qe_q^2=e^2 and hence

qwqD(PVqψT,Pϕq)e+2qwqeq3e. \sum_qw_q D(P_{V_q\psi_T},P_{\phi_q}) \le e+2\sum_q\sqrt{w_q}e_q\le3e.

Zero weights contribute nothing; no minimum-population cutoff is used.

First replace the actual path by its Bell comparator while retaining the independent tomography record and the same controlled gates. This costs δpath,N\delta_{\mathrm{path},N}. Bell equivariance gives the terminal weights wqw_q, so the preceding weighted bound costs at most 3Ee6d/(mv2)3\mathbb E e\le6\sqrt{d/(mv^2)}. An operator implementation error costs at most uimplu_{\mathrm{impl}} in state trace distance. Independent tomography specimen kernels are identical on both sides and preserve these bounds. Use (A.9) for the stronger comparison retaining autonomous production pilots.

With m=Nm=N, fixed finite v>0v>0, uimpl0u_{\mathrm{impl}}\to0 and (A.8), all errors vanish. The tomography stock adds (d21)N(d^2-1)N complete copies and a terminal error O(N1/2)O(N^{-1/2}) at fixed dd. Common subsequent admitted operations contract the unconditioned CQ bound. Rare conditional branches still require inverse-probability control. The benchmark has a terminal daughter; it does not collapse the target after each intermediate tagged jump. The programme before repair is deterministic. A feedback-dependent Bell theorem would need its own conditional-current and nodal arguments, not just preallocated copy banks.

A.5 Why the resource promise cannot be hidden

For a Bell-pair target and a tag generated independently of that target at fixed complete ψ\psi, any tag-selected trace-preserving operation on SS alone leaves the conditional RR marginal I/2I/2. A desired selected PqSP_q^S daughter instead has RR marginal qq|q\rangle\langle q|, at trace distance 1/21/2. Thus the global gates above generally cannot be relabeled as local aperture controls. Copies of a reduced SS state do not supply the promised copies of its complete entangled bank. A further exterior reference entangled with the allegedly pure complete bank is outside the preparation promise.

The resulting implication is consequently precise: supplied complete pure copies and an admitted native diagnostic give integrated current estimation; a record-driven conservative pump and scalar Markov pair chemistry give the Hamiltonian Bell tagged-path limit; further finite native tomography and global terminal control approximate its selected daughter. Statistical native calibration, pair-reaction completeness, initial tag/population preparation and the stated archive-return domain remain commitments of this stronger-resource construction. It does not meet the main one-unknown-input, inaccessible-reference objective by itself. The later pilot completion meets that objective with a different material inventory, without using the copies or global reference control assumed here.