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The usual formulation of Macrorealism is recast to make this notion fully concurrent with the basic ideas behind classical physics. The assumption of non-invasiveness of measurements is dropped. Instead, it is assumed that the current state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Marek Zukowski

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

The Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities were introduced, as a temporal parallel of the Bell inequalities, to test macroscopic realism -- the view that a macroscopic system evolving in time possesses definite properties which can be determined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. J. Halliwell

This study investigates the emergence of macroscopic classical behavior from quantum foundations via the entropic Leggett--Garg inequality. We introduce a geometric framework for deriving entropic Leggett--Garg inequalities with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Qi-Hong Cai , Xue-Hao Yu , Ma-Cheng Yang , Ao-Xiang Liu , Cong-Feng Qiao

We show violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities to be possible for single-mode cat-states evolving dynamically in the presence of a nonlinear quantum interaction arising from, for instance, a Kerr medium. In order to prove the results, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Manushan Thenabadu , Margaret Reid

Macrorealism is a belief that constitutes the core of our perception of reality in the everyday world. The Leggett-Garg (LG) test is a conceptually elegant approach for probing the compatibility between the notion of macrorealism and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 A. K. Pan

The rise of quantum information theory has lent new relevance to experimental tests for non-classicality, particularly in controversial cases such as adiabatic quantum computing superconducting circuits. The Leggett-Garg inequality is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mark M. Wilde , Ari Mizel

Quantum theory contravenes classical macrorealism by allowing a system to be in a superposition of two or more physically distinct states, producing physical consequences radically different from that of classical physics. We show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Arijit Chatterjee , H. S. Karthik , T. S. Mahesh , A. R. Usha Devi

According to the world view of macrorealism, the properties of a given system exist prior to and independent of measurement, which is incompatible with quantum mechanics. Leggett and Garg put forward a practical criterion capable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Eugenio Roldán , Johannes Kofler , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

Fluctuations of the work performed on a driven quantum system can be characterized by the so-called fluctuation theorems. The Jarzynski relation and the Crooks theorem are famous examples of exact equalities characterizing non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Alexey E. Rastegin

Tests of local realism and macrorealism have historically been discussed in very similar terms: Leggett-Garg inequalities follow Bell inequalities as necessary conditions for classical behavior. Here, we compare the probability polytopes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Lucas Clemente , Johannes Kofler

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

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

We show how to apply the Leggett-Garg inequality to opto-electro-mechanical systems near their quantum ground state. We find that by using a dichotomic quantum non-demolition measurement (via, e.g., an additional circuit-QED measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Neill Lambert , Robert Johansson , Franco Nori

We investigate the relation between a refined version of Leggett and Garg conditions for macrorealism, namely the no-signaling-in-time (NSIT) conditions, and the quantum mechanical notion of nondisturbance between measurements. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Roope Uola , Giuseppe Vitagliano , Costantino Budroni

In two-party, two-input and two-output measurement scenario only relevant Bell's inequality is the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) form. They also provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for local realism. Any other form, such as,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan

Macroscopic realism, as introduced by Leggett and Garg, is the world view in which properties of macroscopic systems exist independent of and are not influenced by measurement. Motivated by classical physical laws such as Newtonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 Johannes Kofler , Nikola Buric , Caslav Brukner

By weakly measuring the polarization of a photon between two strong polarization measurements, we experimentally investigate the correlation between the appearance of anomalous values in quantum weak measurements, and the violation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-30 M. E. Goggin , M. P. Almeida , M. Barbieri , B. P. Lanyon , J. L. O'Brien , A. G. White , G. J. Pryde

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 construct quantifiable generalisations of Leggett-Garg tests for macro/ mesoscopic realism and noninvasive measurability that apply when not all outcomes of measurement can be identified as arising from one of two macroscopically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-13 L. Rosales-Zárate , B. Opanchuk , Q. Y. He , M. D. Reid