Leggett-Garg test of superconducting qubit addressing the clumsiness loophole

  1. Emilie Huffman,
  2. and Ari Mizel
The Leggett-Garg inequality holds for any macrorealistic system that is being measured noninvasively. A violation of the inequality can signal that a system does not conform to our
primal intuition about the physical world. Alternatively, a violation can simply indicate that „clumsy“ experimental technique led to invasive measurements. Here, we consider a recent Leggett-Garg test designed to try to rule out the mundane second possibility. We tailor this Leggett-Garg test to the IBM 5Q Quantum Experience system and find compelling evidence that qubit Q2 of the system cannot be described by noninvasive macrorealism.