Violation of Leggett–Garg inequalities in quantum measurements with variable resolution and back-action

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103022zbMATH Open1448.81057arXiv1206.6954OpenAlexW2050226724MaRDI QIDQ5137751FDOQ5137751

Yutaro Suzuki, Holger F. Hofmann, Masataka Iinuma

Publication date: 2 December 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum mechanics violates Leggett-Garg inequalities because the operator formalism predicts correlations between different spin components that would correspond to negative joint probabilities for the outcomes of joint measurements. However, the uncertainty principle ensures that such joint measurements cannot be implemented without errors. In a sequential measurement of the spin components, the resolution and back-action errors of the intermediate measurement can be described by random spin flips acting on an intrinsic joint probability. If the error rates are known, the intrinsic joint probability can be reconstructed from the noisy statistics of the actual measurement outcomes. In this paper, we use the spin-flip model of measurement errors to analyze experimental data on photon polarization obtained with an interferometric setup that allows us to vary the measurement strength and hence the balance between resolution and back-action errors. We confirm that the intrinsic joint probability obtained from the experimental data is independent of measurement strength and show that the same violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality can be obtained for any combination of measurement resolution and back-action.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6954

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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