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In this paper we investigate the properties of gauge-invariant coherent states for Loop Quantum Gravity, for the gauge group U(1). This is done by projecting the corresponding complexifier coherent states, which have been applied in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-12 Benjamin Bahr , Thomas Thiemann

We present the construction of a new family of coherent states for quantum theories of connections obtained following the polymer quantization. The realization of these coherent states is based on the notion of graph change, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-27 Mehdi Assanioussi

We investigate the construction of coherent states for quantum theories of connections based on graphs embedded in a spatial manifold, as in loop quantum gravity. We discuss the many subtleties of the construction, mainly related to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniele Oriti , Roberto Pereira , Lorenzo Sindoni

We present a new method for constructing operators in loop quantum gravity. The construction is an application of the general idea of "coherent state quantization", which allows one to associate a unique quantum operator to every function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-18 Emanuele Alesci , Andrea Dapor , Jerzy Lewandowski , Ilkka Makinen , Jan Sikorski

As part of a wider study of coherent states in (loop) quantum gravity, we introduce a modification to the standard construction, based on the recently introduced (non-commutative) flux representation. The resulting quantum states have some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniele Oriti , Roberto Pereira , Lorenzo Sindoni

In loop quantum gravity (LQG), states of the gravitational field are represented by labeled graphs called spin networks. Their dynamics can be described by a Hamiltonian constraint, { which acts on the spin network states modifying both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Francesca Vidotto , Markus Müller

A fundamental problem in quantum information is to describe efficiently multipartite quantum states. An efficient representation in terms of graphs exists for several families of quantum states (graph, cluster, stabilizer states),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Radu Ionicioiu , Tim P. Spiller

We introduce a new family of coherent states for loop quantum gravity, inspired by the twisted geometry parametrization. We compute their peakedness properties and compare them with the heat-kernel coherent states. They show similar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrea Calcinari , Laurent Freidel , Etera Livine , Simone Speziale

In this paper we discuss a proposal of coherent states for Loop Quantum Gravity. These states are labeled by a point in the phase space of General Relativity as captured by a spin-network graph. They are defined as the gauge invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-20 Eugenio Bianchi , Elena Magliaro , Claudio Perini

Utilizing the program of expectation values in coherent states and its recently developed algorithmic tools, this letter investigates the dynamical properties of cosmological coherent states for Loop Quantum Gravity. To this end, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Klaus Liegener , Łukasz Rudnicki

We introduce new families of pure quantum states that are constructed on top of the well-known Gilmore-Perelomov group-theoretic coherent states. We do this by constructing unitaries as the exponential of operators quadratic in Cartan…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Tommaso Guaita , Lucas Hackl , Tao Shi , Eugene Demler , J. Ignacio Cirac

We construct a generalized class of quantum gravity condensate states, that allows the description of continuum homogeneous quantum geometries within the full theory. They are based on similar ideas already applied to extract effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Daniele Oriti , Daniele Pranzetti , James P. Ryan , Lorenzo Sindoni

A new family of coherent states for all dimensional loop quantum gravity are proposed, which is based on the generalized twisted geometry parametrization of the phase space of $SO(D+1)$ connection theory. We prove that this family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Gaoping Long , Xiangdong Zhang , Cong Zhang

Graph theory is important in information theory. We introduce a quantization process on graphs and apply the quantized graphs in quantum information. The quon language provides a mathematical theory to study such quantized graphs in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zhengwei Liu

Graph-theoretic structures play a central role in the description and analysis of quantum systems. In this work, we introduce a new class of quantum states, called $A_\alpha$-graph states, which are constructed from either unweighted or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rohit kumar , Satyabrata Adhikari

Coherent states can be used for diverse applications in quantum physics including the construction of coherent state path integrals. Most definitions make use of a lattice regularization; however, recent definitions employ a continuous-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John R. Klauder

We introduce a new technique for dealing with the matrix elements of the Hamiltonian operator in loop quantum gravity, based on the use of intertwiners projected on coherent states of angular momentum. We give explicit expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Emanuele Alesci , Jerzy Lewandowski , Ilkka Mäkinen

In this paper we construct the generalized coherent states for an electron in monolayer or bilayer graphene placed in an external magnetic field. At first we define an appropriate set of ladder operators acting on the eigenfunctions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 David J. Fernández C. , Daniel O-Campa

In this article we apply the methods outlined in the previous paper of this series to the particular set of states obtained by choosing the complexifier to be a Laplace operator for each edge of a graph. The corresponding coherent state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Thiemann , O. Winkler

In this thesis we consider the problem of dynamics in canonical loop quantum gravity, primarily in the context of deparametrized models, in which a scalar field is taken as a physical time variable for the dynamics of the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Ilkka Mäkinen
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