Experimental violation of Leggett-Garg inequality in a three-level trapped-ion system
Abstract
Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) studies the temporal correlation in the evolution of physical systems. Classical systems obey the LGI but quantum systems may violate it. The extent of the violation depends on the dimension of the quantum system and the state update rule. In this work, we experimentally test the LGI in a three-level trapped-ion system under the model of a large spin precessing in a magnetic field. The Von Neumann and L\"uders state update rules are employed in our system for direct comparative analysis. The maximum observed value of Leggett-Garg correlator under the Von Neumann state update rule is K3 = 1.739 0.014, which demonstrates a violation of the L\"uders bound by 17 standard deviations and is by far the most significant violation in natural three-level systems.
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