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We perform a quantization of the loop gravity phase space purely in terms of spinorial variables, which have recently been shown to provide a direct link between spin network states and simplicial geometries. The natural Hilbert space to…

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Loop Quantum Gravity provides a natural truncation of the infinite degrees of freedom of gravity, obtained by studying the theory on a given finite graph. We review this procedure and we present the construction of the canonical theory on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-27 Enrique F. Borja , Iñaki Garay , Francesca Vidotto

We first give a brief exposition of our recent realization of anyonic quantum states on single M5-brane probes in 11D super-gravity backgrounds, by non-perturbative quantization of the topological sector of the self-dual tensor field on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Hisham Sati , Urs Schreiber

Topological landscape is introduced for networks with functions defined on the nodes. By extending the notion of gradient flows to the network setting, critical nodes of different indices are defined. This leads to a concise and…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-05-01 E. Weinan , Jianfeng Lu , Yuan Yao

In this work, an analysis of the performance of different Variational Quantum Circuits is presented, investigating how it changes with respect to entanglement topology, adopted gates, and Quantum Machine Learning tasks to be performed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marco Mordacci , Michele Amoretti

We adapt the bialgebra and Hopf relations to expose internal structure in the ground state of a Hamiltonian with $Z_2$ topological order. Its tensor network description allows for exact contraction through simple diagrammatic rewrite rules.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 S. J. Denny , J. D. Biamonte , D. Jaksch , S. R. Clark

We give a review of recent work aimed at understanding the dynamics of gravitational collapse in quantum gravity. Its goal is to provide a non-perturbative computational framework for understanding the emergence of the semi-classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-09 Viqar Husain

We propose a new notation for the states in some models of quantum gravity, namely 4-valent spin networks embedded in a topological three manifold. With the help of this notation, equivalence moves, namely translations and rotations, can be…

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Topological order (long-range entanglement) is a new type of order that beyond Landau's symmetry breaking theory. This concept plays important roles in modern condensed matter physics. The topological entanglement entropy provides a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Jingbo Wang

To understand the dynamics of loop quantum gravity, the deparametrized model of gravity coupled to a scalar field is studied in a simple case, where the graph underlying the spin network basis is one loop based at a single vertex. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-20 Cong Zhang , Jerzy Lewandowski , Haida Li , Yongge Ma

In the search for a covariant formulation for Loop Quantum Gravity, spin foams have arised as the corresponding discrete space-time structure and, among the different models, the Barrett-Crane model seems the most promising. Here, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Etera R Livine

We derive a geometric representation of couplings between spin degrees of freedom and gauge fields within the worldline approach to quantum field theory. We combine the string-inspired methods of the worldline formalism with elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Gies , Jens Hammerling

Despite rapidly growing interest in harnessing machine learning in the study of quantum many-body systems, training neural networks to identify quantum phases is a nontrivial challenge. The key challenge is in efficiently extracting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-31 Yi Zhang , Eun-Ah Kim

The discrepancy between the results of covariant and non-covariant one-loop calculations for higher-spin fields in quantum cosmology is analyzed. A detailed mode-by-mode study of perturbative quantum gravity about a flat Euclidean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giampiero Esposito , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Igor V. Mishakov , Giuseppe Pollifrone

We propose a general setting for a universal representation of the quantum structure on which quantum information stands, whose dynamical evolution (information manipulation) is based on angular momentum recoupling theory. Such scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Annalisa Marzuoli , Mario Rasetti

We comment on structural properties of the algebras $\mathfrak{A}_{LQG/LQC}$ underlying loop quantum gravity and loop quantum cosmology, especially the representation theory, relating the appearance of the (dynamically induced)…

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The Quantum Internet is still in its infancy, yet identifying scalable and resilient quantum network resource states is an essential task for realizing it. We explore the use of graph states with flexible, non-trivial qubit-to-node…

We present a straightforward and self-contained introduction to the basics of the loop approach to quantum gravity, and a derivation of what is arguably its key result, namely the spectral analysis of the area operator. We also discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Rovelli , Peush Upadhya

Spin networks are at the core of quantum gravity. Our aim is to plug the mathematical community at large into the procedures turn to create a finite quantum theory of general relativity. For this, because of the different cultural…

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Quantum simulation presents itself as one of the biggest advantages of developing quantum computers. Simulating a quantum system classically is almost impossible beyond a certain system size whereas a controllable quantum system inherently…

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