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arxiv 2503.09724 v1 pith:XZ54IPJV submitted 2025-03-12 quant-ph

Gap between quantum theory based on real and complex numbers is arbitrarily large

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Quantum Information Theory, the standard formalism used to represent information contained in quantum systems, is based on complex Hilbert spaces (CQT). It was recently shown that it predicts correlations in quantum networks which cannot be explained by Real Quantum Theory (RQT), a quantum theory with real Hilbert spaces instead of complex ones, when three parties are involved in a quantum network with non-trivial locality constraints. In this work, we study a scenario with $N+1$ parties sharing quantum systems in a star network. Here, we construct a "conditional" multipartite Bell inequality that exhibits a gap between RQT and CQT, which linearly increases with $N$ and is thus arbitrarily large in the asymptotic limit. This implies, that, as the number of parties grows, Hilbert space formalism based on real numbers becomes exceedingly worse at describing complex networks of quantum systems. Furthermore, we also compute the tolerance of this gap to experimental errors.

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  1. Indefinite Causal Order Reverses the Real-Complex Hierarchy

    quant-ph 2026-05 reject novelty 6.0

    Indefinite causal order is claimed to reverse the real-complex hierarchy, but the RQT/QT separation is not established under N2 normalization.