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Title: | Comment on 'A scattering quantum circuit for measuring Bell's time inequality: A nuclear magnetic resonance demonstration using maximally mixed states' | Authors: | Knee, G.C. Gauger, E.M. Briggs, G.A.D. Benjamin, S.C. |
Issue Date: | May-2012 | Citation: | Knee, G.C., Gauger, E.M., Briggs, G.A.D., Benjamin, S.C. (2012-05). Comment on 'A scattering quantum circuit for measuring Bell's time inequality: A nuclear magnetic resonance demonstration using maximally mixed states'. New Journal of Physics 14 : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/5/058001 | Abstract: | A recent paper by Souza, Oliveira and Sarthour (SOS) reports the experimental violation of a Leggett-Garg (LG) inequality (sometimes referred to as a temporal Bell inequality). The inequality tests for quantum mechanical superposition: if the inequality is violated, the dynamics cannot be explained by a large class of classical theories under the heading of macrorealism. Experimental tests of the LG inequality are beset by the difficulty of carrying out the necessary so-called 'non-invasive' measurements (which for the macrorealist will extract information from a system of interest without disturbing it). SOS argue that they nevertheless achieve this difficult goal by putting the system in a maximally mixed state. The system then allegedly undergoes no perturbation during their experiment. Unfortunately, the method is ultimately unconvincing to a skeptical macrorealist and so the conclusions drawn by SOS are unjustified. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. | Source Title: | New Journal of Physics | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/116269 | ISSN: | 13672630 | DOI: | 10.1088/1367-2630/14/5/058001 |
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