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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

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

We analyze the continuous measurement of two non-commuting observables for a qubit, and investigate whether the simultaneously observed noisy signals are consistent with the evolution of an equivalent classical system. Following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Justin Dressel

In contrast to the spatial Bell's inequalities, which probe entanglement between spatially-separated systems, the Leggett-Garg inequalities test the correlations of a single system measured at different times. Violation of a genuine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Clive Emary , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

Macrorealism (MR) is the world view that certain quantities may take definite values at all times irrespective of past or future measurements and may be experimentally falsified via the Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities. We put this world view…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Clement Mawby , Jonathan Halliwell

We propose a new Wigner inequality suitable for test of the hypothesis of realism. We show that this inequality is not identical neither to the well-known Wigner inequality nor to the Leggett-Garg inequality in Wigner form. The obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 N. Nikitin , K. Toms

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

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

Leggett and Garg derived inequalities that probe the boundaries of classical and quantum physics by putting limits on the properties that classical objects can have. Historically, it has been suggested that Leggett-Garg inequalities are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Christoph Adami

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

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

For multilevel spin systems, robustness of the quantum mechanical (QM) violation of macrorealism (MR) with respect to coarse grained measurements is investigated using three different necessary conditions of MR, namely, the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Shiladitya Mal , Debarshi Das , Dipankar Home

Standard Leggett and Garg inequalities (SLGIs) were formulated for testing the incompatibility between the classical worldview of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. In recent times, various other formulations, such as Wigner form of LGIs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan

Testing quantum theory on macroscopic scales is a longstanding challenge that might help to revolutionise physics. For example, laboratory tests (such as those anticipated in nanomechanical or biological systems) may look to rule out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Kunkun Wang , George C. Knee , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Peng Xue

We propose a definition of determinism for a physical system that includes, besides the measured system, the measurement device and the surrounding environment. This enlarged system is assumed to follow a predefined trajectory starting from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Ramon Lapiedra , A. Perez

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

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

Quantum mechanics has predicted many counterintuitive phenomena in daily life, and has changed our view of the world. Among such predictions, the existence of a macroscopic object in superposition is especially unbelievable. As Einstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Toshiyuki Fujii , Munehiro Nishida , Noriyuki Hatakenaka

Wigner's form of the local realist inequality is used to derive its temporal version for an oscillating two-level system involving two-time joint probabilities. Such an inequality may be regarded as a novel form of the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Debashis Saha , Shiladitya Mal , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Dipankar Home

We investigate how discrete internal degrees of freedom in a quasi-macroscopic system affect the violation of the Leggett--Garg inequality, a test of macroscopic-realism based on temporal correlation functions. As a specific example, we…