The Leggett-Garg inequalities with deformed Pegg-Barnett phase observables

Abstract

We investigate the Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGIs) for a boson system whose observables are given by deforming the Pegg-Barnett phase operator. We consider two observables for the LGIs and show that the quantum Fourier transform is useful to realize the required measurements. Deriving explicit forms of the LGIs with a coherent state $|\alpha\rangle$ input, we examine whether or not they are violated when the time difference between observations of the phase operators is varied. We show that the system remains nonclassical in the large amplitude limit without dissipation. By contrast with dissipation, our violation of the LGI diminishes rapidly.Comment: 20 pages, 10 eps figures, latex2