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We study Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGIs) for a two level system (TLS) undergoing Markovian dynamics described by unital maps. We find analytic expression of LG parameter $K_{3}$ (simplest variant of LGIs) in terms of the parameters of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Sayan Ghosh , Anant V. Varma , Sourin Das

The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) serves as a criterion to determine the adherence of macroscopic system dynamics to macrorealism, as introduced by Leggett and Garg. A violation of this inequality implies either the absence of a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Tsubasa Sakamoto , Ryosuke Yoshii , Shunji Tsuchiya

We show that in some cases the coherent state can have a larger violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) than the cat state by numerical calculations. To achieve this result, we consider the LGI of the cavity mode weakly coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Hiroo Azuma , Masashi Ban

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 apply the Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGI) to the case of classical and quantum unstable systems. For classical systems the two assumptions of macroscopic realism and non-invasive measurements imply that the three-measurement string $K_3$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Giacosa , Giuseppe Pagliara

The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) as a temporal analogue of Bell's inequality, derived using the notion of realism, is applied in a hitherto unexplored context involving the weak interaction induced two-state oscillations of decaying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Gangopadhyay , D. Home , A. Sinha Roy

We formulate a spatial extension of the Leggett-Garg inequality by considering three distant observers locally measuring a many-body system at three subsequent times. The spatial form, in particular, is specially suited to analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Guillem Müller-Rigat , Donato Farina , Maciej Lewenstein , Andrea Tononi

Investigation the boundary between quantum mechanical description and classical realistic view is of fundamental importance. The Leggett-Garg inequality provides a criterion to distinguish between quantum systems and classical systems, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Maimaitiyiming Tusun , Wei Cheng , Zihua Chai , Yang Wu , Ya Wang , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

We consider a macroscopic quantum system in a tilted double-well potential. By solving Hamiltonian equation, we obtain tunneling probabilities which contain oscillation effects. To show how one can decide between quantum mechanics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Nasim Shahmansoori , Afshin Shafiee

The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI), derived under the assumption of realism, acts as the temporal Bell's inequality. It is studied in electromagnetic and strong interaction like photonics, superconducting qu-bits and nuclear spin. Until the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-16 Qiang Fu , Xurong Chen

Macroscopic realism (MR) is the notion that a time-evolving system possesses definite properties, irrespective of past or future measurements. Quantum mechanical theories can, however, produce violations of MR. Most research to date has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Shayan Majidy , Jonathan J. Halliwell , Raymond Laflamme

We investigate violations of Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGIs) for a harmonic oscillator and a (1+1)-dimensional chiral scalar field with coherent-state projectors, which is equivalent to a heterodyne-type measurement scheme. For the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Tomoya Hirotani , Akira Matsumura , Yasusada Nambu , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

The Leggett-Garg Inequality (LGI) constrains, under certain fundamental assumptions, the correlations between measurements of a quantity Q at different times. Here we analyze the LGI, and propose similar but somewhat more elaborate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Dana Ben Porath , Eliahu Cohen

Quantum theory provides rules governing much of the microscopic world, and among its counter-intuitive consequences are correlations that exceed the bounds from local, classical theories. In two-level quantum systems - qubits - unitary…

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

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

The Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities were introduced to test for the possible presence of macroscopic quantum coherence. Since such effects may be found in various types of macroscopic oscillators, we consider the application of the LG…

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

The Leggett-Garg inequalities serve to test whether or not quantum correlations in time can be explained within a classical macrorealistic framework. We apply this test to thermodynamics and derive a set of Leggett- Garg inequalities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders

We report on an experiment that demonstrates the violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) with neutrons. LGIs have been proposed in order to assess how far the predictions of quantum mechanics defy macroscopic realism. With LGIs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Elisabeth Kreuzgruber , Richard Wagner , Niels Geerits , Hartmut Lemmel , Stephan Sponar

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