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Leggett Garg inequalities (LGIs) provide an elegant way for probing the incompatibility between the notion of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. For unitary dynamics, the optimal quantum violation of a LGI is constrained by the L\"uders…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Asmita Kumari , A. K. Pan

Violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) implies quantum phenomena. In this light we establish that the Moreva \textit{et al.} \cite{moreva} experiment demonstrating the Page-Wootter's mechanism \cite{wootters} falls in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Gangopadhyay , A. Sinha Roy

A recent paper by Souza, Oliveira and Sarthour (SOS) reports the experimental violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality (sometimes referred to as a temporal Bell inequality). The inequality tests for quantum mechanical superposition: if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 George C. Knee , Erik M. Gauger , G. Andrew D. Briggs , Simon C. Benjamin

We revisit the study of the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality in neutrino oscillation data as a mean to test some of the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. In particular, we consider the results of the Daya Bay and RENO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Ricardo Zamora Barrios , Mario A. Acero

In the tests for macrorealism proposed by Leggett and Garg, the temporal correlation functions of a dichotomic variable Q must be measured in a non-invasive way to rule out alternative classical explanations of Leggett-Garg inequality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 J. J. Halliwell

Macrorealism is a classical world view asserting that the properties of macro-objects exist independently and irrespective of observation. One practical approach to test this view in quantum theory is to observe the quantum coherence for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. K. Pan

Leggett-Garg inequalities are an important milestone in our quest to bridge the classical-quantum divide. An experimental investigation of these inequalities requires the so called \emph{non-invasive measurements}(NIM). It has become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 N. D. Hari Dass

We demonstrate violation of objective realism in quantum world using unconstrained weak measurements. Instead of limited Leggett-Garg approach with artificial bounds on the observed values, we assume two identical and indepenent weak…

We describe a new and experimentally feasible protocol for performing fundamental tests of quantum mechanics with massive objects. In our approach a single two level system is used to probe the motion of a nanomechanical resonator via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 A. Asadian , C. Brukner , P. Rabl

We discuss the use of inequalities of the Leggett-Garg type (LGtI) to witness quantum coherence and present the first experimental violation of this type of inequalities using a light-matter interfaced system. By separately benchmarking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-11 Zong-Quan Zhou , Susana F. Huelga , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Leggett-Garg (LG) tests for macrorealism were originally designed to explore quantum coherence on the macroscopic scale. Interference experiments and systems modelled by harmonic oscillators provide useful examples of situations in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 J. J. Halliwell , A. Bhatnagar , E. Ireland , H. Nadeem , V. Wimalaweera

We consider tests of Leggett-Garg's macrorealism and of macroscopic local realism, where for spacelike separated measurements the assumption of macroscopic noninvasive measurability is justified by that of macroscopic locality. We give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Manushan Thenabadu , M. D. Reid

We investigate the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequalities for a harmonic oscillator in various quantum states. We focus on the two-time quasi-probability distribution function with a dichotomic variable constructed with the position…

We investigate the three-term Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) for a two-level quantum system undergoing parity-time (PT ) symmetric dynamics governed by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, when a sequence of dichotomic projective measurements are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 H. S. Karthik , Akshata Shenoy Hejamadi , A. R. Usha Devi

The Leggett-Garg inequalities impose restrictions on the values taken by some combinations of the two-time correlation functions of observables in order to be explainable by a noninvasive-realist classical model. While in the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Javid Naikoo , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Nick Abboud , Yuntao Guan , Barry Bradlyn , Jorge Noronha

We demonstrate the first violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality and time-order noninvariance on public quantum computers using genuine noninvasive measurements. By gathering sufficiently large statistics, we have been able to violate…

In the Leggett-Garg approach to testing macrorealism, the two-time correlation functions, which are normally obtained by sequential measurements of a dichotomic variable Q, need to be measured in a non-invasive way in order to exclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 J. J. Halliwell

We generalize the derivation of Leggett-Garg inequalities to systematically treat a larger class of experimental situations by allowing multi-particle correlations, invasive detection, and ambiguous detector results. Furthermore, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. Dressel , C. J. Broadbent , J. C. Howell , A. N. Jordan

We consider the quantum witness test of macroscopic realism and derive an upper bound for possible violations of this equality due to quantum mechanics. The bound depends only on the number of possible outcomes for the blind measurement at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Greg Schild , Clive Emary