In defense of real quantum theory

2021/03/22 by J. Finkelstein, Finkelstein, J. · 4 citations
Computer Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.12740

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arxiv created 2021/03/22 · arxiv updated 2021/03/25

Abstract

Two recent papers (Renou et al., arXiv:2101.10873, and Chen et al., arXiv:2103.08123) have indicated that complex numbers are necessary for quantum theory. This short note is a comment on their result.

Citations

• Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified

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