The conditions for quantum violation of macroscopic realism
Abstract
Why do we not experience a violation of macroscopic realism in every-day life? Normally, no violation can be seen either because of decoherence or the restriction of coarse-grained measurements, transforming the time evolution of any quantum state into a classical time evolution of a statistical mixture. We find the sufficient condition for these classical evolutions for spin systems under coarse-grained measurements. Then we demonstrate that there exist "non-classical" Hamiltonians whose time evolution cannot be understood classically, although at every instant of time the quantum spin state appears as a classical mixture. We suggest that such Hamiltonians are unlikely to be realized in nature because of their high computational complexity.
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@article{arxiv.0706.0668,
title = {The conditions for quantum violation of macroscopic realism},
author = {Johannes Kofler and Caslav Brukner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0668},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, revised version, journal reference added