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'Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics': Physicists develop quantum model that uses only 'real' numbers for first time ever - Live Science
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Larissa G. Capella
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Physicists have successfully developed a version of quantum mechanics that relies solely on real numbers rather than complex numbers. This breakthrough challenges a century-old assumption that complex numbers were essential to describing quantum interactions.
Physicists have built a real-number version of quantum mechanics that makes all the same predictions as the standard theory, resolving a question that's simmered since the field began.
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