Partial independence suffices to prove real Hilbert spaces insufficient in quantum physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20102v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:58:14 GMT
• Title: Partial independence suffices to prove real Hilbert spaces insufficient in quantum physics
• Authors: Mirjam Weilenmann, Nicolas Gisin, Pavel Sekatski,
• Abstract summary: We show that quantum theory based on real Hilbert spaces cannot explain predictions of quantum theory over complex Hilbert spaces.<n>We derive a trade-off between source independence and the Bell value achievable in real quantum theory.
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• Abstract: The role of complex quantities in quantum theory has been puzzling physicists since the beginnings. Recently, it was shown that they are inevitable in network scenarios with independent sources. Indeed, quantum theory based on real Hilbert spaces cannot explain the predictions of quantum theory over complex Hilbert spaces [Renou et al., Nature 600, 2021]. Here, we revisit the independence assumption underlying this work. We show that assuming partial independence is sufficient for showing the inadequacy of quantum theory over real Hilbert spaces. We derive a trade-off between source independence and the Bell value achievable in real quantum theory, which also lower bounds the source correlations required to explain previous experiments with real quantum systems. We further show that 1 bit of entanglement is necessary and sufficient for recovering the complex quantum correlations by means of real quantum theory in the scenario from [Renou et al., Nature 600, 2021]. Finally, building on [McKague et al., PRL 102, 2009], we provide a construction to simulate any complex quantum setup with m independent sources by means of real quantum theory, by allowing the sources to share a m real-qubit entangled state in the first round of the experiment.

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