Conditions for Quantum Violation of Macroscopic Realism

Autor(en)

Johannes Kofler, Caslav Brukner

Abstrakt

Why do we not experience a violation of macroscopic realism in everyday life. Normally, no violation can be seen either because of decoherence or the restriction of coarse-grained measurements, transforming the time evolution of any quantum state into a classical time evolution of a statistical mixture. We find the sufficient condition for these classical evolutions for spin systems under coarse-grained measurements. However, there exist "nonclassical" Hamiltonians whose time evolution cannot be understood classically, although at every instant of time the quantum state appears as a classical mixture. We suggest that such Hamiltonians are unlikely to be realized in nature because of their high computational complexity.

Organisation(en)

Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Band

101

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0031-9007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.090403

Publikationsdatum

2008

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103026 Quantenoptik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/068dd5af-001a-4909-89a7-af18bc7221bd