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Title
Leggett-Garg violation with a massive mechanical oscillator
Plain
Macrorealism is the everyday assumption that a large object always has a definite state that can be checked without disturbing it. A Leggett-Garg test checks this by measuring one object at several times; a convincing test with a heavy mechanical object is missing.
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Revision 1: For a mechanical mode of effective mass $m\ge 1e-6\,\mathrm{g}$, measure two-time correlators $C_{ij}$ of a two-valued observable at $t_1<t_2<t_3$ and test $K=C_{12}+C_{23}-C_{13}\le 1$, using ideal negative-result or control-experiment protocols that close the clumsiness loophole (disturbance by the measurement itself). An answer is $K>1$ at stated significance with invasiveness bounded by independent controls.
Revision 2: For a mechanical mode of effective mass $m\ge 10^{-6}\,\mathrm{g}$, measure two-time correlators $C_{ij}$ of a two-valued observable at $t_1<t_2<t_3$ and test $K=C_{12}+C_{23}-C_{13}\le 1$, using ideal negative-result or control-experiment protocols that close the clumsiness loophole (disturbance by the measurement itself). An answer is $K>1$ at stated significance with invasiveness bounded by independent controls.
Settled by
A loophole-controlled Leggett-Garg violation on a microgram-scale mechanical mode.
Kind
well-posed
Answer type
yes-no
References
(empty)
Literature status
open
Status note
Cat states of a 16 microgram bulk acoustic resonator were made in 2023 (Bild et al., Science); no loophole-controlled Leggett-Garg test at such masses was found in the literature checked.
Posed since
1985

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