Physicists test real quantum theory in an optical quantum network
Quantum theory was originally formulated using complex numbers. Nonetheless, when replying to a letter by Hendrik Lorenz, Erwin Schrödinger (one of its founding fathers), wrote: “Using complex numbers in quantum theory is unpleasant and should be objected to. The wave function is surely fundamentally a real function.”
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