Violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality using ideal negative measurements
in neutron interferometry
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04409v1
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:17:49 GMT
- Title: Violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality using ideal negative measurements
in neutron interferometry
- Authors: Elisabeth Kreuzgruber, Richard Wagner, Niels Geerits, Hartmut Lemmel,
Stephan Sponar
- Abstract summary: The measured value of K = 1.120 +/- 0.007, obtained in a neutron interferometric experiment, is clearly above the limit K = 1 predicted by macro-realistic theories.
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- Abstract: 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,
correlations of measurements performed on a single system at different times
are described. The measured value of K = 1.120 +/- 0.007, obtained in a neutron
interferometric experiment, is clearly above the limit K = 1 predicted by
macro-realistic theories.
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