Realism and quantum flux tunneling
Abstract
Leggett and Garg have argued that the phenomenon of quantum flux tunneling oscillations will, according to the predictions of quantum mechanics, contradict the pair of assumptions ``macroscopic realism'' and ``noninvasive measurability.'' It is argued here that there can be no contradiction of realism in such a case, and that the contradiction is between quantum mechanics and noninvasive measurability.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.1493
- Bibcode:
- 1987PhRvL..59.1493B
- Keywords:
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- Flux Quantization;
- Heisenberg Theory;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Hamiltonian Functions;
- Magnetic Moments;
- Pauli Exclusion Principle;
- Squid (Detectors);
- Physics (General);
- 03.65.Bz;
- 74.50.+r;
- Tunneling phenomena;
- point contacts weak links Josephson effects