English

Leggett-Garg Inequality Violations Bound Quantum Fisher Information

Quantum Physics 2026-04-14 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We prove that a violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality for bounded observables in stationary pure states and thermal states yields a rigorous lower bound on the quantum Fisher information. This turns a qualitative foundations test of realism in quantum systems into a quantitative witness of useful quantum sensitivity and, in the collective setting, into a lower bound on multipartite entanglement depth in many-body systems. We further demonstrate that Leggett-Garg violations are constrained by the same spectral moments, susceptibilities, and ff-sum-rule bounds that organize many-body response. Our results show that temporal correlations of a single collective observable can serve as an experimentally accessible witness of many-body quantum coherence, without requiring full state reconstruction.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.09772,
  title  = {Leggett-Garg Inequality Violations Bound Quantum Fisher Information},
  author = {Nick Abboud and Yuntao Guan and Barry Bradlyn and Jorge Noronha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09772},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure. Includes supplemental material