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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…

We consider the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality in electronic Mach-Zehnder inteferometers. This set-up has two distinct advantages over earlier quantum-transport proposals: firstly, the required correlation functions can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Clive Emary , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

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

The possibility of observing violations of temporal Bell inequalities, originally proposed by Leggett as a mean of testing the quantum mechanical delocalization of suitably chosen macroscopic bodies, is discussed by taking into account the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tommaso Calarco , Marcello Cini , Roberto Onofrio

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

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 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

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

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

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 realise a quantum three-level system with photons distributed among three different spatial and polarization modes. Ambiguous measurement of the state of the qutrit are realised by blocking one out for the three modes at any one time.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Kunkun Wang , Clive Emary , Mengyan Xu , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Lei Xiao , Peng Xue

"Macrorealism" posits that a system possesses definite properties at all times and that we can discover these properties, in principle, without disturbing the system's subsequent behaviour. The Leggett-Garg inequalities are derived under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Arush Garg , Jonathan Halliwell , Taejas Venkataraman

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

Temporal steering and violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality are two different ways of probing the violation of macro-realistic assumptions in quantum mechanics. It is shown here that under unitary evolution and projective measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Shiladitya Mal , Archan S. Majumdar , Dipankar Home

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 investigate Leggett-Garg temporal inequalities in flavor-mixing processes. We derive an exact flavor-mass uncertainty product and we establish that it is an upper bound to the violation of the inequalities. This finding relates temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Massimo Blasone , Fabrizio Illuminati , Luciano Petruzziello , Luca Smaldone

In an endeavour to better define the distinction between classical macroscopic and quantum microscopic regimes, the Leggett-Garg inequalities were established as a test of macroscopic-realistic theories, which are commonly thought to be a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Hadrien Chevalier , A. J. Paige , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim

In 1985, Leggett and Garg (1985 Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 857) proposed a Bell-like inequality to test (in)compatibility between two fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics. The first concept is 'macroscopic realism', which is the quality of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 A M Souza , I S Oliveira , R S Sarthour

We consider maximal violations of the Leggett-Garg inequality, obtained by maximising over all possible measurement operators, in relation to non-unitary aspects of the system dynamics. We model the action of an environment on a qubit in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-22 Clive Emary

I study several aspects of tests of macrorealism (MR), which for a given data set serves to give a quantitative signal of the presence of a specific notion of non-classical behaviour. The insufficiency of classical understanding underpins…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Clement Mawby