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Indefinite Causal Order Reverses the Real-Complex Hierarchy
Jacopo Surace, Shintaro Minagawa, Ravi Kunjwal
[Note added after submission. After posting the first version of this preprint and corresponding with Ved Kunte and Kuntal Sengupta, we identified an issue with the claimed separat…
Reconstruction of finite Quasi-Probability and Probability from Principles: The Role of Syntactic Locality
Jacopo Surace
Quasi-probabilities appear across diverse areas of physics, but their conceptual foundations remain unclear: they are often treated merely as computational tools, and operations li…
On whether quantum theory needs complex numbers: the foil theories perspective
Yìlè Yīng, Maria Ciudad Alañón, Daniel Centeno +5
Recent work by Renou et al. (2021) has led to some controversy concerning the question of whether quantum theory requires complex numbers for its formulation. We promote the view t…
Symmetry-induced failures of tomographic locality: Constructing foil theories by twirling
Daniel Centeno, Marco Erba, Thomas D. Galley +7
Tomographic locality is a principle commonly used in the program of finding axioms that pick out quantum theory within the landscape of possible theories. The principle asserts the…