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The formalism of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) provides us with a non-perturbatively defined model of quantum gravity, where the sum over histories includes only causal space-time histories. Path integrals of CDT and their continuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , W. Westra , S. Zohren

This article is an overview of the use of so-called Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations (EDT) and Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) as lattice regularizations of quantum gravity. The lattice regularizations have been very successful in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-28 Jan Ambjorn

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

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

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) are a concrete attempt to define a nonperturbative path integral for quantum gravity. We present strong evidence that the lattice theory has a second-order phase transition line, which can potentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-01 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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

Motivated by the search for new observables in nonperturbative quantum gravity, we consider Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) in 2+1 dimensions with the spatial topology of a torus. This system is of particular interest, because one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-11 T. G. Budd , R. Loll

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice formulation of quantum gravity, suitable for Monte-Carlo simulations which have been used to study the phase diagram of the model. It has four phases characterized by different dominant…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Ambjorn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , D. Németh

The causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) program has for the first time allowed for path-integral computation of correlation functions in full general relativity without symmetry reductions and taking into account Lorentzian signature. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 R L Maitra

3+1 dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) describe a quantum theory of fluctuating geometries without the introduction of a background geometry. If the topology of space is constrained to be that of a three-dimensional torus we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Jan Ambjørn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Kevin Grosvenor , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

Previous work has shown that the macroscopic structure of the theory of quantum gravity defined by causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) is compatible with that of a de Sitter universe. After emphasizing the strictly nonperturbative nature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 J. Ambjorn , A. Gorlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , T. Trzesniewski

It is shown that generalized CDT, the two-dimensional theory of quantum gravity, constructed as a scaling limit from so-called causal dynamical triangulations, can be obtained from a cubic matrix model. It involves taking a new scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-01 Jan Ambjorn

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 provide a hands-on introduction to Monte Carlo simulations in nonperturbative lattice quantum gravity, formulated in terms of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We describe explicitly the implementation of Monte Carlo moves and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Joren Brunekreef , Andrzej Görlich , Renate Loll

This thesis investigates low-dimensional models of nonperturbative quantum gravity, with a special focus on Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We define the so-called curvature profile, a new quantum gravitational observable based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Joren Brunekreef

We investigate the interaction between matter and causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) in the context of two-dimensional quantum gravity. We focus on the Ising model coupled to CDT, contrasting this with Liouville gravity and the relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Ryan Barouki , Henry Stubbs , John Wheater

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice theory of quantum gravity. It is shown how to identify the IR and the UV limits of this lattice theory with similar limits studied using the continuum, functional renormalization group…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-26 Jan Ambjorn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Goerlich , Daniel Nemeth

This article discusses the infrared and the (perspective) ultraviolet limits of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). CDT is a non-perturabtive and background-independent approach to quantization of Einstein's gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

In this thesis we analyze a very simple model of two dimensional quantum gravity based on causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We present an exactly solvable model which indicates that it is possible to incorporate spatial topology…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-07 Willem Westra

In these lectures we describe how a theory of quantum gravity may be constructed in terms of a lattice formulation based on so-called causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We discuss how the continuum limit can be obtained and how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-16 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll