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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 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, an analogue of Bell's inequality involving correlations of measurements on a system at different times, stands as one of the hallmark tests of quantum mechanics against classical predictions. The phenomenon of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 J. A. Formaggio , D. I. Kaiser , M. M. Murskyj , T. E. Weiss

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…

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 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

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

Macrorealism is a classical world view asserting that the properties of macro-objects exist independently and irrespective of observation. One practical approach to test this view in quantum theory is to observe the quantum coherence for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. K. Pan

In this study, we determine a violation of the Leggett-Garg inequalities due to gravitational interaction in a hybrid system consisting of a harmonic oscillator and a spatially localized superposed particle. The violation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Akira Matsumura , Yasusada Nambu , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

The Leggett-Garg (LG) test of macroscopic realism involves a series of dichotomic non-invasive measurements that are used to calculate a function which has a fixed upper bound for a macrorealistic system and a larger upper bound for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Hemant Katiyar , Aharon Brodutch , Dawei Lu , Raymond Laflamme

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

Macroscopic Realism (MR) says that a macroscopic system is always determinately in one or other of the macroscopically distinguishable states available to it. The Leggett-Garg (LG) inequality was derived to allow experimental test of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-22 Owen J. E Maroney , Christopher G Timpson

We prove that a violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality for bounded observables in stationary pure states and thermal states yields a rigorous lower bound on the quantum Fisher information. This turns a qualitative foundations test of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Nick Abboud , Yuntao Guan , Barry Bradlyn , Jorge Noronha

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

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

In this paper we first analyse Leggett and Garg's argument to the effect that macroscopic realism contradicts quantum mechanics. After making explicit all the assumptions in Leggett and Garg's reasoning, we argue against the plausibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Guido Bacciagaluppi

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 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

We show how a test of macroscopic realism based on Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGIs) can be performed in a macroscopic system. Using a continuous-variable approach, we consider quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements applied to atomic…

The basic Leggett inequalities, i.e. those inequalities in which the particular assumptions of Leggett's hidden-variable model (e.g. Malus law) were not yet introduced, are usually derived using hidden-variable distributions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-21 Sofia Wechsler