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The usual formulation of Macrorealism is recast to make this notion fully concurrent with the basic ideas behind classical physics. The assumption of non-invasiveness of measurements is dropped. Instead, it is assumed that the current state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Marek Zukowski

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

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

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

Standard Leggett and Garg inequalities (SLGIs) were formulated for testing the incompatibility between the classical worldview of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. In recent times, various other formulations, such as Wigner form of LGIs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan

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

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

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

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

The Leggett-Garg inequality holds for any macrorealistic system that is being measured noninvasively. A violation of the inequality can signal that a system does not conform to our primal intuition about the physical world. Alternatively, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Emilie Huffman , Ari Mizel

Macrorealism is a characteristic feature of many, but not all, classical systems. It is known, for example, that classical light can violate a Leggett-Garg inequality and, hence, reject a macrorealist interpretation. A recent experiment has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Brian R. La Cour

In two-party, two-input and two-output measurement scenario only relevant Bell's inequality is the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) form. They also provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for local realism. Any other form, such as,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Swati Kumari , A. K. Pan

The Leggett-Garg inequalities are a set of inequalities obeyed by classical systems but violated in quantum theory. Their violation has been taken as evidence that quantum theory lacks a `realistic' formulation. However in addition to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-09 JM Yearsley

Macro-realism is a fundamental feature of classical world that contradicts with the quantum theory. An elegant method of testing macrorealism is to apply the Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI), but the non-invasivity of measurement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Hui Wang , Shuang Wang , Cong-Feng Qiao

Macroscopic realism, the classical world view that macroscopic objects exist independently of and are not influenced by measurements, is usually tested using Leggett-Garg inequalities. Recently, another necessary condition called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Lucas Clemente , Johannes Kofler

The Bell and Leggett-Garg tests offer operational ways to demonstrate that non-classical behavior manifests itself in quantum systems, and experimentalists have implemented these protocols to show that classical worldviews such as local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-24 David Avis , Patrick Hayden , Mark M. Wilde

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

Leggett-Garg inequalities are tests of macroscopic realism that can be violated by quantum mechanics. In this letter, we realise photonic Leggett-Garg tests on a three-level system and implement measurements that admit three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Kunkun Wang , Clive Emary , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Jian Li , Peng Xue

We describe a new and experimentally feasible protocol for performing fundamental tests of quantum mechanics with massive objects. In our approach a single two level system is used to probe the motion of a nanomechanical resonator via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 A. Asadian , C. Brukner , P. Rabl

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