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According to the world view of macrorealism, the properties of a given system exist prior to and independent of measurement, which is incompatible with quantum mechanics. Leggett and Garg put forward a practical criterion capable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Eugenio Roldán , Johannes Kofler , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

In 1985, Leggett and Garg formulated a class of inequalities for testing the compatibility between macrorealism and quantum mechanics. In this paper, we point out that based on the same assumptions of macrorealism that are used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. K. Pan , Md. Qutubuddin , Swati Kumari

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

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

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

Wigner's form of the local realist inequality is used to derive its temporal version for an oscillating two-level system involving two-time joint probabilities. Such an inequality may be regarded as a novel form of the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Debashis Saha , Shiladitya Mal , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Dipankar Home

The Leggett-Garg inequality is a widely used test of the "quantumness" of a system, and involves correlations between measurements realized at different times. According to its widespread interpretation, a violation of the Legget-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Saulo V. Moreira , Arne Keller , Thomas Coudreau , Perola Milman

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

Temporal Bell inequalities, or Leggett-Garg Inequalities (LGI), are studied for continuous-variable systems placed in a squeezed state. The importance of those systems lies in their broad applicability which allows the description of many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Jerome Martin , Vincent Vennin

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

It remains an open question how realist view of macroscopic world emerges from quantum formalism. For testing the macrorealism in quantum domain, an interesting approach was put forward by Leggett and Garg in $1985$, by formulating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan

Macro-realism is the position that certain "macroscopic" observables must always possess definite values: e.g. the table is in some definite position, even if we don't know what that is precisely. The traditional understanding is that by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 John-Mark A. Allen , Owen J. E. Maroney , Stefano Gogioso

We formulate entropic Leggett-Garg inequalities, which place constraints on the statistical outcomes of temporal correlations of observables. The information theoretic inequalities are satisfied if macrorealism holds. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 A. R. Usha Devi , H. S. Karthik , Sudha , A. K. Rajagopal

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 investigate the relation between a refined version of Leggett and Garg conditions for macrorealism, namely the no-signaling-in-time (NSIT) conditions, and the quantum mechanical notion of nondisturbance between measurements. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Roope Uola , Giuseppe Vitagliano , Costantino Budroni

Despite the great success of quantum mechanics, questions regarding its application still exist and the boundary between quantum and classical mechanics remains unclear. Based on the philosophical assumptions of macrorealism and noninvasive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

We consider tests of Leggett-Garg's macrorealism and of macroscopic local realism, where for spacelike separated measurements the assumption of macroscopic noninvasive measurability is justified by that of macroscopic locality. We give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Manushan Thenabadu , M. D. Reid

We show how to apply the Leggett-Garg inequality to opto-electro-mechanical systems near their quantum ground state. We find that by using a dichotomic quantum non-demolition measurement (via, e.g., an additional circuit-QED measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Neill Lambert , Robert Johansson , Franco Nori

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…

Leggett Garg inequalities (LGIs) provide an elegant way for probing the incompatibility between the notion of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. For unitary dynamics, the optimal quantum violation of a LGI is constrained by the L\"uders…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Asmita Kumari , A. K. Pan