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Violations of the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) up to its algebraic bound under non-Hermitian dynamics are well established theoretically. Here, we demonstrate that such extreme violations are intrinsically fragile when realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sourav Paul , Parveen Kumar , Sourin Das

In the cryptographic context, an earlier unexplored application of the temporal version of the Bell-type inequality is shown here in the device-independent (DI) scenario. This is done by using the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Akshata Shenoy H. , S. Aravinda , R. Srikanth , D. Home

The double slit experiment provides a classic example of both interference and the effect of observation in quantum physics. When particles are sent individually through a pair of slits, a wave-like interference pattern develops, but no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 Joshua Kincaid , Kyle McLelland , Michael Zwolak

We revisit the study of the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality in neutrino oscillation data as a mean to test some of the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. In particular, we consider the results of the Daya Bay and RENO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Ricardo Zamora Barrios , Mario A. Acero

Quantum coherence is one of the primary non-classical features of quantum systems. While protocols such as the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) and quantum tomography can be used to test for the existence of quantum coherence and dynamics in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Che-Ming Li , Neill Lambert , Yueh-Nan Chen , Guang-Yin Chen , Franco Nori

We study the fluctuations of the work performed on a driven quantum system, defined as the difference between subsequent measurements of energy eigenvalues. These work fluctuations are governed by statistical theorems with similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Ralf Blattmann , Klaus Mølmer

In the present paper we introduce a way of identifying quantum phase transitions of many-body systems by means of local time correlations and Leggett-Garg inequalities. This procedure allows to experimentally determine the quantum critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , J. J. Mendoza-Arenas , F. J. Rodríguez , C. Tejedor , L. Quiroga

The Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) is a powerful tool for distinguishing between quantum and classical properties in studies of macroscopic systems. Applying the LGI to non-Hermitian systems with dissipation presents a fascinating…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-06 Qinxuan Peng , Bolong Jiao , Hang Yu , Liao Sun , Haoyi Zhang , Jiaming Li , Le Luo

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most potent probes of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), offering direct constraints on the quantum gravity energy scale ($E_{\rm QG}$) based on observations of energy-dependent time lags. Individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Shen-Shi Du , Yi Gong , Jun-Jie Wei , Zi-Ke Liu , Zhi-Qiang You , Yan-Zhi Meng , Xing-Jiang Zhu

Quantum mechanics has always proven emphatically as one of the main cornerstones in all of science since its inception. Initially, it has also faced many skeptics from many scientific proponents of its complete description of reality.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-30 Kiran Sharma , Aryabrat Mahapatra , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Sudhanwa Patra

We study the emergence of macrorealism in a harmonic oscillator subject to consecutive measurements of a squeezed action. Since the harmonic oscillator dynamics admits a hidden trajectory formulation, the assumptions of macrorealism are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amir Leshem , Omri Gat

Lattice models are valuable tools to gain insight into the statistical physics of heteropolymers. We rigorously map the partition function of these models into a vacuum expectation value of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory (LGT), with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-19 Veronica Panizza , Alessandro Roggero , Philipp Hauke , Pietro Faccioli

The notion of macrorealism was introduced by Leggett and Garg in an attempt to capture our intuitive conception of the macroscopic world, which seems difficult to reconcile with our knowledge of quantum physics. By now, numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 David Schmid

We investigate Leggett-Garg temporal inequalities in flavor-mixing processes. We derive an exact flavor-mass uncertainty product and we establish that it is an upper bound to the violation of the inequalities. This finding relates temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Massimo Blasone , Fabrizio Illuminati , Luciano Petruzziello , Luca Smaldone

We study the use of a pair of qubits as a decoherence probe of a non-trivial environment. This dual-probe configuration is modelled by three two-level-systems which are coupled in a chain in which the middle system represents an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole , Clemens Müller , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

Leggett-type nonlocal realist inequalities that have been derived to date are all contingent upon suitable geometrical constraints to be strictly satisfied by the spatial arrangement of the relevant measurement settings. This undesirable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ashutosh Rai , Dipankar Home , A. S. Majumdar

We describe our investigations concerning the sonification of measured data from experiments involving various mesoscopic mechanical oscillator systems cooled down close to their quantum ground states, and music generation from a programmed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Miles Blencowe , Michael Casey , Kimberly Tan

The possibility of observing violations of temporal Bell inequalities, originally proposed by Leggett as a mean of testing the quantum mechanical delocalization of suitably chosen macroscopic bodies, is discussed by taking into account the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tommaso Calarco , Marcello Cini , Roberto Onofrio

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

Discussions about quantum interference, indistinguishability and superpostion between quantum states goes back to the beginning of quantum mechanics, but the theoretical problem concerning quantitative measures for quantum coherence was…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 P. Machado , S. Pádua