2025/03/12 by Shubhayan Sarkar, David Trillo, Sarkar, Shubhayan +6 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6633/ae871e
Quantum information theory, the formalism for representing information contained in quantum systems, is based on complex Hilbert spaces. It was recently shown that in quantum networks involving three parties with nontrivial locality constraints, this formalism predicts correlations that cannot be explained by real quantum theory, a variant of quantum mechanics based on real Hilbert spaces. In this work, we study a scenario withparties sharing quantum systems in a star network. We then construct a multipartite Bell inequality that exhibits a gap between quantum theory and its variant based on real numbers, which grows linearly with, 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. We also compute the tolerance of this gap to experimental errors.