Macroscopic quantum states: Measures, fragility, and implementations

F Fröwis, P Sekatski, W Dür, N Gisin… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Large-scale quantum effects have always played an important role in the foundations of
quantum theory. With recent experimental progress and the aspiration for quantum …

Necessary and sufficient conditions for macroscopic realism from quantum mechanics

L Clemente, J Kofler - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Macroscopic realism, the classical world view that macroscopic objects exist independently
of and are not influenced by measurements, is usually tested using Leggett-Garg …

Uncertainty relations for coarse–grained measurements: an overview

F Toscano, DS Tasca, Ł Rudnicki, SP Walborn - Entropy, 2018 - mdpi.com
Uncertainty relations involving incompatible observables are one of the cornerstones of
quantum mechanics. Aside from their fundamental significance, they play an important role …

Quantum nondemolition measurement enables macroscopic Leggett-Garg tests

C Budroni, G Vitagliano, G Colangelo, RJ Sewell… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We show how a test of macroscopic realism based on Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGIs) can
be performed in a macroscopic system. Using a continuous-variable approach, we consider …

Entanglement in macroscopic systems

J Sperling, IA Walmsley - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We present a theoretical study of entanglement in ensembles consisting of an arbitrary
number of particles. Multipartite entanglement criteria in terms of observables are formulated …

How difficult is it to prove the quantumness of macroscropic states?

P Sekatski, N Gisin, N Sangouard - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
General wisdom tells us that if two quantum states are “macroscopically distinguishable”
then their superposition should be hard to observe. We make this intuition precise and …

How squeezed states both maximize and minimize the same notion of quantumness

AZ Goldberg, K Heshami - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Beam splitters are routinely used for generating entanglement between modes in the optical
and microwave domains, requiring input states that are not convex combinations of coherent …

Quantum-to-classical transition via quantum cellular automata

PCS Costa - Quantum Information Processing, 2021 - Springer
A quantum cellular automaton (QCA) is an abstract model consisting of an array of finite-
dimensional quantum systems that evolves in discrete time by local unitary operations. Here …

Proposal for the creation and optical detection of spin cat states in Bose-Einstein condensates

HW Lau, Z Dutton, T Wang, C Simon - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We propose a method to create “spin cat states,” ie, macroscopic superpositions of coherent
spin states, in Bose-Einstein condensates using the Kerr nonlinearity due to atomic …

Comparing various formulations of macrorealism

Y Zhang, X Tan, T Qiu - Quantum Information Processing, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Leggett–Garg inequality (LGI) is used to test incompatibility between the
classical world view of macrorealism and quantum mechanics. Except for the LGI, other …