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Experimental Tests of Macrorealism: An Assessment


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1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
 

The macrorealistic inequality of Leggett and Garg is reviewed, along with a recent experiment that aims to test it.

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Interference, Leggett–Garg Inequality, Macrorealism, Superposition, Transmon.
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Anupam Garg
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States

Abstract


The macrorealistic inequality of Leggett and Garg is reviewed, along with a recent experiment that aims to test it.

Keywords


Interference, Leggett–Garg Inequality, Macrorealism, Superposition, Transmon.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv109%2Fi11%2F1958-1964