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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.030102
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- Canada Research Chairs program
- Perimeter Institute
- CIFAR
- FQRNT's INTRIQ
- MITACS
- NSERC
- ONR [N000140811249]
- QuantumWorks
- MDEIE (Quebec)
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The Bell and Leggett-Garg tests offer operational ways to demonstrate that nonclassical behavior manifests itself in quantum systems, and experimentalists have implemented these protocols to show that classical worldviews such as local realism and macrorealism are false, respectively. Previous theoretical research has exposed important connections between more general Bell inequalities and polyhedral combinatorics. We show here that general Leggett-Garg inequalities are closely related to the cut polytope of the complete graph, a geometric object well-studied in combinatorics. Building on that connection, we offer a family of Leggett-Garg inequalities that are not trivial combinations of the most basic Leggett-Garg inequalities. We then show that violations of macrorealism can occur in surprising ways, by giving an example of a quantum system that violates the pentagon Leggett-Garg inequality but does not violate any of the basic triangle Leggett-Garg inequalities.
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