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Experimental Test of Born's Rule by Inspecting Third-Order Quantum Interference on a Single Spin in Solids

Quantum Physics 2017-02-01 v1

Abstract

As a fundamental postulate of quantum mechanics, Born's rule assigns probabilities to the measurement outcomes of quantum systems and excludes multi-order quantum interference. Here we report an experiment on a single spin in diamond to test Born's rule by inspecting the third-order quantum interference. The ratio of the third-order quantum interference to the second-order in our experiment is ceiled at the scale of 10310^{-3}, which provides a stringent constraint on the potential breakdown of Born's rule.

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@article{arxiv.1612.08563,
  title  = {Experimental Test of Born's Rule by Inspecting Third-Order Quantum Interference on a Single Spin in Solids},
  author = {Fangzhou Jin and Ying Liu and Jianpei Geng and Pu Huang and Wenchao Ma and Mingjun Shi and Chang-Kui Duan and Fazhan Shi and Xing Rong and Jiangfeng Du},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.08563},
  year   = {2017}
}