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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 theory of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) attempts to define a nonperturbative theory of quantum gravity as a sum over space-time geometries. One of the ingredients of the CDT framework is a global time foliation, which also plays…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Ambjorn , A. Gorlich , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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

A powerful strategy to treat quantum field theories beyond perturbation theory is by putting them on a lattice. However, the dynamical and symmetry structure of general relativity have for a long time stood in the way of a well-defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 J. Ambjørn , 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

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 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

Three-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity, expressed as the continuum limit of a nonperturbative sum over spacetimes, is tantalizingly close to being amenable to analytical methods, and some of its properties have been described in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 J. Brunekreef , R. Loll

A hallmark of non-perturbative theories of quantum gravity is the absence of a fixed background geometry, and therefore the absence in a Planckian regime of any notion of length or scale that is defined a priori. This has potentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-06 J. Ambjorn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We advocate lattice methods as the tool of choice to constructively define a background-independent theory of Lorentzian quantum gravity and explore its physical properties in the Planckian regime. The formulation that arguably has most…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-05-30 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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

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

We review some recent results from the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity. We review recent observations of dimensional reduction at a number of previously undetermined points in the parameter space of CDT, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-13 Jan Ambjorn , Daniel Coumbe , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

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

Using Monte-Carlo computer simulations, we study the impact of matter fields on the geometry of a typical quantum universe in the CDT model of lattice quantum gravity. The quantum universe has the size of a few Planck lengths and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 J. Ambjørn , Z. Drogosz , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , D. Németh

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice theory where aspects of quantum gravity can be studied. Two-dimensional CDT can be solved analytically and the continuum (quantum) Hamiltonian obtained. In this article we show that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Jan Ambjorn , Lisa Glaser , Yuki Sato , Yoshiyuki Watabiki

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

We study the geometries generated by two-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) coupled to $d$ massless scalar fields. Using methods similar to those used to study four-dimensional CDT we show that there exists a $c=1$ "barrier",…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Ambjorn , A. T. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , H. -G. Zhang

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 (CDT) approach to quantum gravity is a lattice approximation to the gravitational path integral. Developed by Ambj\o{}rn, Jurkiewicz and Loll, it has yielded some important results, notably the emergence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Rajesh Kommu