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Conditions for quantum violation of macroscopic realism

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 101, Issue 9, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.090403

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  1. the Austrian Science Foundation FWF [P19570-N16]
  2. the European Commission through Project QAP [015846]
  3. the FWF Doctoral Program CoQuS
  4. the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  5. Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P19570] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

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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.

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