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The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI), based on the notions of realism and noninvasive measurability, is applied in the context of a linear harmonic oscillator. It is found that merely through observing at various instants which region of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 S. Bose , D. Home , S. Mal

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

The quantum superposition principle states that an entity can exist in two different states simultaneously, counter to our 'classical' intuition. Is it possible to understand a given system's behaviour without such a concept? A test…

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 investigate the nonclassicality of an open quantum system using Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) which test the correlations of a single system measured at different times. Violation of LGI implies nonclassical behavior of the open system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Md. Manirul Ali , Po-Wen Chen

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

Macro-realistic description of systems is based majorly on two basic intuitions about the classical world, namely, macrorealism per se, that is, the system is always in a distinct state, and non-invasive measurements, that is, measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Shubhayan Sarkar

By combining the postulates of macrorealism with Bell locality, we derive a qualitatively different hybrid inequality that avoids two loopholes that commonly appear in Leggett-Garg and Bell inequalities. First, locally invasive measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Justin Dressel , Alexander N. Korotkov

We investigate the violation of Leggett-Garg (LG) inequalities inquantum dots with the stationarity assumption. By comparing two types of LG inequalities, we find a better one which is easier to be tested in experiment. In addition, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yong-Nan Sun , Yang Zou , Rong-Chun Ge , Jian-Shun Tang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

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

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

Macroscopic realism is a set of assumptions about how we experience the world at a classical level. While the Leggett-Garg inequalities are temporal correlations that are violated by quantum systems not obeying such macrorealism, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Manish Ramchander , Arul Lakshminarayan

We propose a test of macrorealism that exploits the contextuality of two-time correlation functions to escape the so-called "clumsiness loophole" that plagues Leggett-Garg inequalities. The non-contextuality of reduced joint probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Devashish Pandey , Xavier Oriols , Guillermo Albareda

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

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

Leggett-Garg's inequalities predict sharp bounds for some classical correlation functions that address the quantum or classical nature of real-time evolutions. We experimentally observe the violations of these bounds on single- and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Alessandro Santini , Vittorio Vitale

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

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

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 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