Investigating Leggett-Garg inequality for a two level system under decoherence in a non-Markovian dephasing environment.

ABSTRACT: Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGI) test the correlations of a single system measured at different times. Violation of LGI implies either the absence of a realistic description of the system or the impossibility of measuring the system without disturbing it. We investigate the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality for a two level system under decoherence in a non-Markovian dephasing environment. We discuss the non-Markovian dynamics of the violation of LGI at zero temperature and also at finite temperature for different structured environments. An enhanced quantum coherence is shown through the violation of Leggett-Garg inequality in the strong non-Markovian regime of the environment.

SUBMITTER: Chen PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4141272 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature