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Group field theories represent a 2nd quantized reformulation of the loop quantum gravity state space and a completion of the spin foam formalism. States of the canonical theory, in the traditional continuum setting, have support on graphs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-17 Daniele Oriti , James P. Ryan , Johannes Thürigen

We explicitly construct an Archimedean order unit space whose state space is affinely isomorphic to the set of quantum commuting correlations. Our construction only requires fundamental techniques from the theory of order unit spaces and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Roy Araiza , Travis Russell , Mark Tomforde

In the framework of loop quantum gravity, we define a new Hilbert space of states which are solutions of a large number of components of the diffeomorphism constraint. On this Hilbert space, using the methods of Thiemann, we obtain a family…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jerzy Lewandowski , Hanno Sahlmann

In Rovelli and Smolin's loop representation of nonperturbative quantum gravity in 4 dimensions, there is a space of solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint having as a basis isotopy classes of links in R^3. The physically correct inner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 John C. Baez

We show that a class of background independent models of quantum spacetime have local excitations that can be mapped to the first generation fermions of the standard model of particle physics. These states propagate coherently as they can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sundance O. Bilson-Thompson , Fotini Markopoulou , Lee Smolin

This article is an expository account aimed at viewing entanglement in finite-dimensional quantum many-body systems as a phenomenon of global geometry. While the mathematics of general quantum states has been studied extensively, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Kazuki Ikeda

Numerical simulation of lattice gauge theories is an indispensable tool in high energy physics, and their quantum simulation is expected to become a major application of quantum computers in the future. In this work, for an Abelian lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Hiroki Sukeno , Takuya Okuda

We present geometric methods for uniformly discretizing the continuous N-qubit Hilbert space. When considered as the vertices of a geometrical figure, the resulting states form the equivalent of a Platonic solid. The discretization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chad Rigetti , Remy Mosseri , Michel Devoret

Given a symmetry group acting on a principal fibre bundle, symmetric states of the quantum theory of a diffeomorphism invariant theory of connections on this fibre bundle are defined. These symmetric states, equipped with a scalar product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Bojowald , H. A. Kastrup

We study the holographic properties of a class of quantum geometry states characterized by a superposition of discrete geometric data, in the form of generalised tensor networks. This class specifically includes spin networks, the kinematic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Simon Langenscheidt , Daniele Oriti

In this work, it is demonstrated how the kinematical Hilbert space of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) can be inferred from the configuration space of BF theories via the imposition of the Hamiltonian constraints. In particular, it is outlined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Francesco Cianfrani

Similarity-Projection structures abstract the numerical properties of real scalar product of rays and projections in Hilbert spaces to provide a more general framework for Quantum Physics. They are characterized by properties that possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Lehmann

It is commonly understood that the Yang-Mills non-Abelian gauge fields is the natural generalization of the well known Abelian gauge group symmetry $U(1)$ in the electrodynamics. Taking into account that the problems of the localization and…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Peter Leifer

The free quantum states of topologically massive electrodynamics and gravity in 2+1 dimensions, are explicitly found. It is shown that in both theories the states are described by infrared-regular polarization tensors containing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 G. Grignani , P. Sodano , C. A. Scrucca

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

In this work we investigate the question, under what conditions Hilbert spaces that are induced by measures on the space of generalized connections carry a representation of certain non-Abelian analogues of the electric flux. We give the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-27 Hanno Sahlmann

The canonical analysis and subsequent quantization of the (2+1)-dimensional action of pure gravity plus a cosmological constant term is considered, under the assumption of the existence of one spacelike Killing vector field. The proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-07 T. Christodoulakis , G. Doulis , Petros A Terzis , E. Melas , Th. Grammenos , G. O. Papadopoulos , A. Spanou

A new framework of loop quantization that assimilates conformal and scale invariance is constructed and is found to be applicable to a large class of physically important theories of gravity and gravity-matter systems. They include general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-02 Charles H. -T. Wang , Daniel P. F. Rodrigues

We demonstrate a relation between Nielsen's approach towards circuit complexity and Krylov complexity through a particular construction of quantum state space geometry. We start by associating K\"ahler structures on the full projective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Arghya Chattopadhyay , Arpita Mitra , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

In a theory of quantum gravity, states can be represented as wavefunctionals that assign an amplitude to a given configuration of matter fields and the metric on a spatial slice. These wavefunctionals must obey a set of constraints as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Victor Godet , Olga Papadoulaki , Suvrat Raju