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Violation of Leggett-Garg inequalities allows proof of the incompatibility between quantum mechanics and the combined premises (called macrorealism) of macroscopic realism (MR) and non-invasive measurability (NIM). Arguments can be given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jesse Fulton , M. Thenabadu , Run Yan Teh , M. D. Reid

We consider a macroscopic quantum system in a tilted double-well potential. By solving Hamiltonian equation, we obtain tunneling probabilities which contain oscillation effects. To show how one can decide between quantum mechanics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Nasim Shahmansoori , Afshin Shafiee

In 1985, Leggett and Garg put forward the concept of macroscopic realism (macrorealism) and, in analogy to Bell's theorem, derived a necessary condition in terms of inequalities, which are now known as the Leggett-Garg inequalities. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Johannes Kofler , Caslav Brukner

We consider two necessary and sufficient conditions for macrorealism recently appeared in the literature, known as no-signaling-in-time and arrow-of-time conditions, respectively, and study them in the context of neutrino flavor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-07 Massimo Blasone , Fabrizio Illuminati , Luciano Petruzziello , Kyrylo Simonov , Luca Smaldone

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

Temporal steering and violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality are two different ways of probing the violation of macro-realistic assumptions in quantum mechanics. It is shown here that under unitary evolution and projective measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Shiladitya Mal , Archan S. Majumdar , Dipankar Home

Leggett and Garg derived inequalities that probe the boundaries of classical and quantum physics by putting limits on the properties that classical objects can have. Historically, it has been suggested that Leggett-Garg inequalities are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Christoph Adami

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

We analyze the continuous measurement of two non-commuting observables for a qubit, and investigate whether the simultaneously observed noisy signals are consistent with the evolution of an equivalent classical system. Following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Luis Pedro García-Pintos , Justin Dressel

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

If the time evolution of a system can be understood classically, then there must exist an underlying probability distribution for the variables describing the system at all times. It is well known that for systems described by a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 J. J. Halliwell , C. Mawby

We interpret the Leggett-Garg (LG) inequality as a kind of contextual probabilistic inequality in which one combines data collected in experiments performed for three different contexts. In the original version of the inequality these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Masanari Asano , Takahisa Hashimoto , Andrei Khrennikov , Masanori Ohya , Yoshiharu Tanaka

Ambiguous measurements do not reveal complete information about the system under test. Their quantum-mechanical counterparts are semi-weak (or in the limit, weak-) measurements and here we discuss their role in tests of the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Clive Emary

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

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 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

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

We propose a definition of determinism for a physical system that includes, besides the measured system, the measurement device and the surrounding environment. This enlarged system is assumed to follow a predefined trajectory starting from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Ramon Lapiedra , A. Perez

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…

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