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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

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 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…

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 derive a set of Leggett-Garg inequalities (temporal Bell's inequalities) for the moment generating function of charge transferred through a conductor. Violation of these inequalities demonstrates the absence of a macroscopic-real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-10 Clive Emary

Proper time, ideal clocks, and boosts are well understood classically, but subtleties arise in quantum physics. We show that quantum clocks set in motion via momentum boosts do not witness classical time dilation. However, using velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 A. J. Paige , A. D. K. Plato , M. S. Kim

We present a derivation of the structure and dynamics of a ticking clock by showing that for finite systems a single natural principle serves to distinguish what we understand as ticking clocks from time-keeping systems in general. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Ralph Silva , Nuriya Nurgalieva , Henrik Wilming

In this work we study temporal quantum correlations, quantified by Leggett-Garg (LG) and LG-type inequalities, in the $B$ and $K$ meson systems. We use the tools of open quantum systems to incorporate the effect of decoherence which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Javid Naikoo , Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Subhashish Banerjee

In the Leggett-Garg approach to testing macrorealism, the two-time correlation functions, which are normally obtained by sequential measurements of a dichotomic variable Q, need to be measured in a non-invasive way in order to exclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 J. J. Halliwell

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

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

Correlations between spacelike separated measurements on entangled quantum systems are stronger than any classical correlations and are at the heart of numerous quantum technologies. In practice, however, spacelike separation is often not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Martin Ringbauer , Rafael Chaves

We consider temporal correlations of particles with arbitrary spin. We show that the Leggett-Garg inequality can be maximally violated irrespective of the value of spin, thus improving upon an earlier result by Kofler and Brukner [Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Shiladitya Mal , A. S Majumdar

We report on a stringent test of the non-classicality of the motion of a massive quantum particle, which propagates on a discrete lattice. Measuring temporal correlations of the position of single atoms performing a quantum walk, we observe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Carsten Robens , Wolfgang Alt , Dieter Meschede , Clive Emary , Andrea Alberti

We consider two protocols for the measurement of the temporal correlation functions of a dichotomic variable Q appearing in Leggett-Garg type inequalities. The protocols measure solely whether Q has the same or different sign at the ends of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 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

We introduce the concept of an entangled clock, where the flow of time is operationally defined by the discrete registration of measurement outcomes on a singlet state. Comparing the synchronization rate of two such clocks against classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Karl Svozil

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 assess non-Markovianity of a quantum open-system dynamics through the violation of temporal bell-like inequalities in a controllable Nuclear Magnetic Resonance system. We investigate experimentally the connections between the violation…

We propose an experimental programme to test Leggett--Garg-type temporal correlations in single-neuron dynamics. The goal is to distinguish between diffusive (Wiener/cable-equation) models and non-diffusive persistent stochastic models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Partha Ghose