English
Related papers

Related papers: Second- and First-Order Phase Transitions in CDT

200 papers

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

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

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

CDT is an attempt to formulate a non-perturbative lattice theory of quantum gravity. We describe the phase diagram and analyse the phase transition between phase B and phase C (which is the analogue of the de Sitter phase observed for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Jan Ambjørn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Dániel Németh

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a non-perturbative lattice approach to quantum gravity where one assumes space-time foliation into spatial hyper-surfaces of fixed topology. Most of the CDT results were obtained for the spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), a candidate theory of nonperturbative quantum gravity in 4D, turns out to have a rich phase structure. We investigate the recently discovered bifurcation phase $C_b$ and relate some of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Ambjørn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , N. Klitgaard , R. Loll

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 investigate the transition between the phases $B$ and $C_b$ observed in four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We find that the critical properties of CDT with toroidal spatial topology are the same as earlier observed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Jan Ambjørn , Grzegorz Czelusta , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Dániel Németh

"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

This topical review gives a comprehensive overview and assessment of recent results in Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), a modern formulation of lattice gravity, whose aim is to obtain a theory of quantum gravity nonperturbatively from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 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

This work focuses on the newly discovered bifurcation phase transition of CDT quantum gravity. We define various order parameters and investigate which is most suitable to study this transition in numerical simulations. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 D. N. Coumbe , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , J. Jurkiewicz

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a methodology to define and compute the gravitational path integral, whose aim is a fully fledged nonperturbative quantum field theory of gravity and spacetime. Analogous to lattice formulations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 J. Ambjørn , R. Loll

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

In the approach of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), quantum gravity is obtained as a scaling limit of a non-perturbative path integral over space-times whose causal structure plays a crucial role in the construction. After some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Glaser , R. Loll

We perform a first investigation of the coupling constant flow of the nonperturbative lattice model of four-dimensional quantum gravity given in terms of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). After explaining how standard concepts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , A. Kreienbuehl , R. Loll

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation model of quantum gravity (CDT) is a proposition to evaluate the path integral over space-time geometries using a lattice regularization with a discrete proper time and geometries realized as simplicial…

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

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 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

We study matter with central charge $c >1$ coupled to two-dimensional (2d) quantum gravity, here represented as causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). 2d CDT is known to provide a regularization of (Euclidean) 2d Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Jan Ambjørn , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Hongguang Zhang
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›