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No Finite NPA Level Characterizes the Complete Quantum Set in the Simplest Bell Scenario
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Authors: Anubhav Chaturvedi
Year
2026
Paper ID
72662
Status
Preprint
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The Navascués--Pironio--Acín (NPA) hierarchy gives the standard semidefinite outer approximations to quantum behaviors. Whether any finite level can already equal the quantum set has remained open even in the bipartite scenario with two binary measurements per party. We demonstrate that no finite level is exact. For the symmetric doubly tilted CHSH functional h_α=A0B0+A0B1+A1B0-A1B1+α\(A0+B0\), set T=1-α. Its quantum maximum satisfies \[ωrm Q(1-T)-(4-2T)\]/T3→4/3, whereas every fixed NPA level satisfies \[ωL(1-T)-ωrm Q(1-T)\]/T3→+infty. Under the corresponding boundary rescaling, an explicit expectation of the positive operator ωrm Q\(1-t2\)I-Ht converges to the Motzkin polynomial. A bounded fixed-level error would therefore make the Motzkin polynomial plus a nonnegative constant a sum of squares, which is impossible. Consequently, every standard NPA relaxation based on a fixed finite list of words in the measurement projectors strictly contains the complete quantum set, and its nonquantum behaviors accumulate at a local deterministic behavior. Thus, the finite-level exactness of CHSH and all one-sided tilted CHSH maxima does not extend to an exact finite-level description of the complete quantum set in the minimal scenario.
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