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Violation of a Leggett-Garg Inequality Using Ideal Negative Measurements in Neutron Interferometry
Elisabeth Kreuzgruber1, Richard Wagner1, Niels Geerits1
1Atominstitut, <a href="https://ror.org/04d836q62">TU Wien</a>, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
Leggett-Garg inequalities (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. We report on an experiment that demonstrates the violation of an LGI with neutrons. The final measured value of the Leggett-Garg correlator K=1.120±0.007(stat)±0.019(sys), obtained in a neutron interferometric experiment, is clearly above the limit K=1 predicted by macrorealistic theories. The experimental results are analyzed within the framework of dynamical theory of neutron diffraction, evidently reproducing the obtained values.
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