Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10318v3
• Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:31:16 GMT
• Title: Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object
• Authors: Debarshi Das, Dipankar Home, Hendrik Ulbricht, Sougato Bose
• Abstract summary: We make crucial modifications to the standard tools for probing the quantum violation of the pivotal classical notion of macrorealism (MR) Our adaptation enables probing quantum violations for literally any mass, momentum, and frequency. These should drastically simplify the experimental effort in testing the nonclassicality of massive objects.
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• Abstract: The search for empirical schemes to evidence the nonclassicality of large masses is a central quest of current research. However, practical schemes to witness the irreducible quantumness of an arbitrarily large mass are still lacking. To this end, we incorporate crucial modifications to the standard tools for probing the quantum violation of the pivotal classical notion of macrorealism (MR): while usual tests use the same measurement arrangement at successive times, here we use two different measurement arrangements. This yields a striking result: a mass-independent violation of MR is possible for harmonic oscillator systems. In fact, our adaptation enables probing quantum violations for literally any mass, momentum, and frequency. Moreover, coarse-grained position measurements at an accuracy much worse than the standard quantum limit, as well as knowing the relevant parameters only to this precision, without requiring them to be tuned, suffice for our proposal. These should drastically simplify the experimental effort in testing the nonclassicality of massive objects ranging from atomic ions to macroscopic mirrors in LIGO.

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