Assessing the dynamical assumptions in Tsirelson inequality tests of non-classicality in harmonic oscillators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03166v2
• Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:42:09 GMT
• Title: Assessing the dynamical assumptions in Tsirelson inequality tests of non-classicality in harmonic oscillators
• Authors: Arush Garg, Jonathan Halliwell, Taejas Venkataraman,
• Abstract summary: We show that Tsirelson inequality violations could be explained by a macrorealistic system that merely breaks the dynamical assumption.<n>We derive several incidental mathematical results relating to maximally-violating states.
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• Abstract: "Macrorealism" posits that a system possesses definite properties at all times and that we can discover these properties, in principle, without disturbing the system's subsequent behaviour. The Leggett-Garg inequalities are derived under these assumptions and are readily violated by standard quantum mechanics, thereby providing a scheme to test whether demonstrably macroscopic systems can exhibit quantum coherence. Unfortunately, Leggett-Garg tests suffer from the ineludible clumsiness loophole - the difficulty of proving that sequential measurements have not inadvertently disturbed the system. The recently uncovered Tsirelson inequality is derived from the simple dynamical assumption of uniform precession, obeyed by many classical systems, and requires only single-time measurements. However, Tsirelson inequality violations could be explained by a macrorealistic system that merely breaks the dynamical assumption, rather than genuine quantum behaviour. By carrying out a quantum-mechanical analysis of the Tsirelson inequality in the harmonic oscillator, we develop a protocol to rule out this possibility by assessing generalised conditions of uniform precession. We show that various measures of uniform precession, some of which related to Leggett-Garg quantities, are satisfied well enough that the presence of quantum-mechanical interference terms must be implied. We derive several incidental mathematical results relating to maximally-violating states, concerning dwell time, crossing number and probability currents, and also consider a group theoretic analysis of the Tsirelson operator.

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