Conditions for Quantum Violation of Macrorealism in Large-spin Limit

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13162v1
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 14:22:28 GMT
• Title: Conditions for Quantum Violation of Macrorealism in Large-spin Limit
• Authors: Qi-Hong Cai, Xue-Hao Yu, Ma-Cheng Yang, Ao-Xiang Liu, Cong-Feng Qiao,
• Abstract summary: We investigate how macroscopic classical behavior emerges from a quantum underpinning with counterintuitive characteristics.<n>For maximally mixed states, quantum violations converge to a constant in the macroscopic limit, rather than growing logarithmically with the system's entropy.
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• Abstract: This study investigates how macroscopic classical behavior emerges from a quantum underpinning with counterintuitive characteristics. The deviation from classical standpoint of a quantum system's temporal correlations is measured via the entropic Leggett-Garg inequality. We introduce a geometric framework to derive entropic Leggett-Garg inequalities involving higher-order correlations, and analyze their asymptotic behavior in large-spin systems by employing the WKB approximation. Results show that, for maximally mixed states, quantum violations converge to a constant in the macroscopic limit, rather than growing logarithmically with the system's entropy, indicating that macroscopic realism increasingly dominates as the number of energy levels expands. However, exceptions arise with certain parameter settings, where the semiclassical approximation breaks down entirely, enabling inequalities to exhibit maximal quantum violation, thus revealing that quantum and classical descriptions remain incompatible even on a macroscopic scale. It is noteworthy this violation originates exclusively from the temporal correlations of a single system, distinguishing it from macroscopic quantum phenomena observed in many-body systems such as superconductivity.

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