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Leggett-Garg inequalities are tests of macroscopic realism that can be violated by quantum mechanics. In this letter, we realise photonic Leggett-Garg tests on a three-level system and implement measurements that admit three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Kunkun Wang , Clive Emary , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Peng Xue

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

A kicked quantum nondemolition measurement is introduced, where a qubit is weakly measured by pumping current. Measurement statistics are derived for weak measurements combined with single qubit unitary operations. These results are applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew N. Jordan , Alexander N. Korotkov , Markus Buttiker

We investigate the violation of Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities inquantum dots with the stationarity assumption. By comparing two types of LG inequalities, we find a better one which is easier to be tested in experiment. In addition, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yong-Nan Sun , Yang Zou , Rong-Chun Ge , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

The Leggett-Garg inequalities probe the classical-quantum boundary by putting limits on the sum of pairwise correlation functions between classical measurement devices that consecutively measured the same quantum system. The apparent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Christoph Adami

The Leggett-Garg inequalities have been proposed to identify the quantum behaviour of a system; specifically, the violation of macrorealism. They are usually implemented by performing two sequential measurements on quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 D. Melegari , M. Cardi , P. Solinas

We investigate the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequalities for a quantum field, focusing on the two-time quasi-probability distribution function of the dichotomic variable with a coarse-grained scalar field. The Leggett-Garg inequalities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Masaki Tani , Kosei Hatakeyama , Daisuke Miki , Yuki Yamasaki , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

The Leggett-Garg inequality holds for any macrorealistic system that is being measured noninvasively. A violation of the inequality can signal that a system does not conform to our primal intuition about the physical world. Alternatively, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Emilie Huffman , Ari Mizel

The Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities were proposed in order to assess whether sets of pairs of sequential measurements on a single quantum system can be consistent with an underlying notion of macrorealism. Here, the LG inequalities are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 J. J. Halliwell

Although coherent manipulation of electronic states can be achieved in quantum dot (QD) devices by harnessing nanofabrication tools, it is often hard to fathom the extent to which these nanoelectronic devices can behave quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Thingujam Yaiphalemba Meitei , Saikumar Krithivasan , Arijit Sen , Md Manirul Ali

Despite the great success of quantum mechanics, questions regarding its application still exist and the boundary between quantum and classical mechanics remains unclear. Based on the philosophical assumptions of macrorealism and noninvasive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

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

By combining the postulates of macrorealism with Bell locality, we derive a qualitatively different hybrid inequality that avoids two loopholes that commonly appear in Leggett-Garg and Bell inequalities. First, locally invasive measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Justin Dressel , Alexander N. Korotkov

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…

Quantum non-demolition measurements define a non-invasive protocol to extract information from a quantum system that we aim to monitor. They exploit an additional quantum system that is sequentially coupled to the system. Eventually, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Paolo Solinas , Stefano Gherardini

As is well known, the macroscopic realism and the noninvasive measurability together lead to Leggett-Garg inequalities violated by quantum mechanics. We consider tests of the Leggett-Garg type with use of the $q$-entropies. For all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Alexey E. Rastegin

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

In contrast to Bell's inequalities which test the correlations between multiple spatially separated systems, the Leggett-Garg inequalities test the temporal correlations between measurements of a single system. We experimentally demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Wenlei Zhang , Ravi K. Saripalli , Jacob M. Leamer , Ryan T. Glasser , Denys I. Bondar

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 show that the quantum bound for temporal correlations in a Leggett-Garg test, analogous to the Tsirelson bound for spatial correlations in a Bell test, strongly depends on the number of levels $N$ that can be accessed by the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Costantino Budroni , Clive Emary