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    Bertet, Patrice; Palacios-Laloy, Agustin; Mallet, François; Nguyen, François; Vion, Denis; Esteve, Daniel; Korotkov, Alexander N

    Nature physics, 06/2010, Volume: 6, Issue: 6
    Journal Article

    The violation of Bell inequalities with two entangled and spatially separated quantum two-level systems (TLSs) is often considered as the most prominent demonstration that nature does not obey local realism. Under different but related assumptions of macrorealism--which macroscopic systems plausibly fulfil--Leggett and Garg derived a similar inequality for a single degree of freedom undergoing coherent oscillations and being measured at successive times. Here, we test such a "Bell's inequality in time", which should be violated by a quantum TLS. Our TLS is a superconducting quantum circuit in which Rabi oscillations are continuously driven while it is continuously and weakly measured. The time correlations present at the detector output agree with quantum-mechanical predictions and violate the Leggett-Garg inequality by five standard deviations. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT