No Finite NPA Level Characterizes the Complete Quantum Set in the Simplest Bell Scenario
Abstract
The Navascu\'es--Pironio--Ac\'in (NPA) hierarchy gives the standard semidefinite outer approximations to quantum behaviors. Whether \emph{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 \emph{no finite level} is exact. For the symmetric doubly tilted CHSH functional , set . Its quantum maximum satisfies , whereas every fixed NPA level satisfies . Under the corresponding boundary rescaling, an explicit expectation of the positive operator 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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@article{arxiv.2607.14569,
title = {No Finite NPA Level Characterizes the Complete Quantum Set in the Simplest Bell Scenario},
author = {Anubhav Chaturvedi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14569},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Submitted to Physical Review Letters on 14 July 2026. Closely overlapping preprints arXiv:2607.13762 and arXiv:2607.13774 appeared on 15 July 2026. This work was completed independently beforehand and gives a distinct fully analytical proof with broader behavior-set consequences