TY - JOUR
T1 - Persistence of quantum violation of macrorealism for large spins even under coarsening of measurement times
AU - Mukherjee, Sumit
AU - Rudra, Anik
AU - Das, Debarshi
AU - Mal, Shiladitya
AU - Home, Dipankar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019/10/21
Y1 - 2019/10/21
N2 - We investigate quantum violation of macrorealism for multilevel spin systems under the condition of coarsening of measurement times, i.e., when measurement times have experimental indeterminacy. This is studied together with the effect of coarsening of measurement outcomes for which individual outcomes cannot be unambiguously discriminated. In our treatment, along with different measurement outcomes being combined into two groups in order to model the coarsening of measurement outcomes, importantly, varying degrees of coarsening of measurement time intervals have also been considered. This then reveals that while, for a given dimension, the magnitude of quantum violation of macrorealism decreases with the increasing degree of coarsening of measurement times, interestingly, this effect of coarsening of measurement times can be annulled by increasing the dimension of the spin system so that in the limit of large spin, the quantum violation of macrorealism continues to persist. Thus, the result obtained demonstrates that classicality for large spins does not emerge from quantum mechanics in spite of the coarsening of measurement times.
AB - We investigate quantum violation of macrorealism for multilevel spin systems under the condition of coarsening of measurement times, i.e., when measurement times have experimental indeterminacy. This is studied together with the effect of coarsening of measurement outcomes for which individual outcomes cannot be unambiguously discriminated. In our treatment, along with different measurement outcomes being combined into two groups in order to model the coarsening of measurement outcomes, importantly, varying degrees of coarsening of measurement time intervals have also been considered. This then reveals that while, for a given dimension, the magnitude of quantum violation of macrorealism decreases with the increasing degree of coarsening of measurement times, interestingly, this effect of coarsening of measurement times can be annulled by increasing the dimension of the spin system so that in the limit of large spin, the quantum violation of macrorealism continues to persist. Thus, the result obtained demonstrates that classicality for large spins does not emerge from quantum mechanics in spite of the coarsening of measurement times.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042114
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042114
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AN - SCOPUS:85074424402
SN - 2469-9926
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review A
JF - Physical Review A
IS - 4
M1 - 042114
ER -