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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 report on an experiment that demonstrates the violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) with neutrons. LGIs have been proposed in order to assess how far the predictions of quantum mechanics defy macroscopic realism. With LGIs,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Elisabeth Kreuzgruber , Richard Wagner , Niels Geerits , Hartmut Lemmel , Stephan Sponar

In this paper we propose a time-independent \textit{equality} and time-dependent \textit{inequality}, suitable for an experimental test of the hypothesis of realism. The derivation of these relations is based on the concept of conditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 N. Nikitin , K. Toms

Temporal quantum correlations provide an intriguing way of testing quantumness at the macroscopic level, with a logical hierarchy present among the quantum correlations associated with nonmacrorealism, temporal steering, and temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Hao-Cheng Weng , Chen-Yeh Wei , Huan-Yu Ku , Shin-Liang Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen , Chih-Sung Chuu

The violation of J. Bell's inequality with two entangled and spatially separated quantum two- level systems (TLS) is often considered as the most prominent demonstration that nature does not obey ?local realism?. Under different but related…

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

Conventionally, covariances do not distinguish between spatial and temporal correlations. The same covariance matrix could equally describe temporal correlations between observations of the same system at two different times or correlations…

An operational (measurement based) scheme that connects measurement invasiveness and the presence of non-classical memory effects in open quantum systems is defined. Its underlying theoretical basis relies on a non-invasive measurability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Adrián A. Budini

Quantum temporal correlations exhibited by violations of Leggett-Garg Inequality (LGI) and Temporal Steering Inequality (TSI) are in general found to be non-increasing under decoherence channels when probed on two-qubit pure entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 Shounak Datta , Shiladitya Mal , A. S. Majumdar

Leggett Garg inequalities (LGIs) test the incompatibility between the notion of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. For unitary dynamics, the optimal quantum violation of an LGI is constrained by the L\"uders bound. However, the LGIs does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Asmita Kumari , A. K. Pan

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…

In a recent paper, Chatterjee et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 135, 220202 (2025)] analyze and experimentally implement a specific unitary evolution of a simple quantum system. The authors refer to this type of dynamics as a "superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Antoni Wójcik , Jan Wójcik

Test of {macroscopic realism} (MR) is key to understanding the foundation of quantum mechanics. Due to the existence of the {non-invasive measurability} loophole and other interpretation loopholes, however, such test remains an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ping Wang , Chong Chen , Hao Liao , Vadim V. Vorobyov , Joerg Wrachtrup , and Ren-Bao Liu

We show that for macroscopic measurements which cannot reveal full information about microscopic states of the system, the monogamy of Bell inequality violations present in quantum mechanics implies that practically all correlations between…

The testability of the Kochen-Specker theorem is a subject of ongoing controversy. A central issue is that experimental implementations relying on sequential measurements cannot achieve perfect compatibility between the measurements and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Jochen Szangolies , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne

Quantum mechanics has predicted many counterintuitive phenomena in daily life, and has changed our view of the world. Among such predictions, the existence of a macroscopic object in superposition is especially unbelievable. As Einstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Toshiyuki Fujii , Munehiro Nishida , Noriyuki Hatakenaka

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

A projective measurement cannot decrease the von Neumann entropy if the outcome is ignored. However, under certain sound assumptions and using the quantum violation of Leggett-Garg inequalities, we have previously demonstrated that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Alberto Montina , Stefan Wolf

In quantum mechanics, spatial correlations arising from measurements at separated particles are well studied. This is not the case, however, for the temporal correlations arising from a single quantum system subjected to a sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Jannik Hoffmann , Cornelia Spee , Otfried Gühne , Costantino Budroni

So far it has been shown that the quantum dynamics cannot be described as a classical Markov process unless the number of classical states is uncountably infinite. In this paper, we present a stochastic model with time-correlated noise that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Alberto Montina