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Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a proposal for a theory of quantum gravity, which implements a path-integral quantization of gravity as the continuum limit of a sum over piecewise flat spacetime geometries. We use Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-25 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We argue that theories of quantum gravity constructed with the help of (Causal) Dynamical Triangulations have given us the most informative, quantitative models to date of quantum spacetime. Most importantly, these are derived dynamically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

Causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) can be used as a regularization of quantum gravity. In two dimensions the theory can be solved anlytically, even before the cut-off is removed and one can study in detail how to take the continuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

The dynamical generation of a four-dimensional classical universe from nothing but fundamental quantum excitations at the Planck scale is a long-standing challenge to theoretical physicists. A candidate theory of quantum gravity which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-08 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We perform a detailed investigation of the phase structure and the semiclassical effective action of (2+1)-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) quantum gravity using computer simulations. On the one hand, we study the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Joren Brunekreef , Dániel Németh

We study a formulation of lattice gravity defined via Euclidean dynamical triangulations (EDT). After fine-tuning a non-trivial local measure term we find evidence that four-dimensional, semi-classical geometries are recovered at long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 J. Laiho , S. Bassler , D. Coumbe , D. Du , J. T. Neelakanta

The four dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) approach to quantum gravity is already more than ten years old theory with numerous unprecedented predictions such as non-trivial phase structure of gravitational field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Jakub Mielczarek

Four-dimensional CDT (causal dynamical triangulations) is a lattice theory of geometries which one might use in an attempt to define quantum gravity non-perturbatively, following the standard procedures of lattice field theory. Being a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-19 J. Ambjorn , D. Coumbe , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz

We compare the effective action of the scale factor obtained from lattice quantum gravity (in the form of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT)) to the corresponding effective action obtained from the simplest Functional Renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-26 Jan Ambjørn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Gőrlich , Dániel Németh

Quantum Gravity by Causal Dynamical Triangulation has over the last few years emerged as a serious contender for a nonperturbative description of the theory. It is a nonperturbative implementation of the sum-over-histories, which relies on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

Causal Dynamical Triangulations is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. We show that there exists an effective transfer matrix labeled by the scale factor which properly describes the evolution of the quantum universe. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-13 Andrzej Görlich

The aim of the causal dynamical triangulations approach is to define nonperturbatively a quantum theory of gravity as the continuum limit of a lattice-regularized model of dynamical geometry. My aim in this paper is to give a concise yet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Joshua H. Cooperman

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice approach to quantum gravity. CDT has rich phase structure, including a semiclassical phase consistent with Einstein's general relativity. Some of the observed phase transitions are second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

We calculate the spectral dimension for a nonperturbative lattice approach to quantum gravity, known as causal dynamical triangulations (CDT), showing that the dimension of spacetime smoothly decreases from approximately 4 on large distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 D. N. Coumbe , J. Jurkiewicz

"Causal Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT) represent a lattice regularization of the sum over spacetime histories, providing us with a non-perturbative formulation of quantum gravity. The ultraviolet fixed points of the lattice theory can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We present a possibility of coupling a point-like, non-singular, mass distribution to four-dimensional quantum gravity in the nonperturbative setting of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). In order to provide a point of comparison for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-16 Igor Khavkine , Renate Loll , Paul Reska

We search for a continuum limit in the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity by determining the change in lattice spacing using two independent methods. The two methods yield similar results that may indicate how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Jan Ambjorn , Daniel Coumbe , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

The formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) attempts to provide a non-perturbative regularization of quantum gravity, viewed as an ordinary quantum field theory. In two dimensions one can solve the lattice theory analytically and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , A. Ipsen

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation model of quantum gravity (CDT) has a transfer matrix, relating spatial geometries at adjacent (discrete lattice) times. The transfer matrix uniquely determines the theory. We show that the measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 Jan Ambjorn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

The method of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations provides a background-independent definition of the sum over geometries in quantum gravity, in the presence of a positive cosmological constant. We present the evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll