Quantum mechanics with real numbers: entanglement, superselection rules and gauges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05473v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:58:16 GMT
• Title: Quantum mechanics with real numbers: entanglement, superselection rules and gauges
• Authors: Vlatko Vedral
• Abstract summary: We show how imaginary numbers in quantum physics can be eliminated by enlarging the Hilbert Space followed by an imposition of a superselection rule. We illustrate this procedure with a qubit and apply it to the Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
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• Abstract: We show how imaginary numbers in quantum physics can be eliminated by enlarging the Hilbert Space followed by an imposition of - what effectively amounts to - a superselection rule. We illustrate this procedure with a qubit and apply it to the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The procedure is somewhat reminiscent of the constrained quantization of the electromagnetic field, where, in order to manifestly comply with relativity, one enlargers the Hilbert Space by quantizing the longitudinal and scalar modes, only to subsequently introduce a constraint to make sure that they are actually not directly observable.

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