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We give a relativistic spin network model for quantum gravity based on the Lorentz group and its q-deformation, the Quantum Lorentz Algebra. We propose a combinatorial model for the path integral given by an integral over suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 John W. Barrett , Louis Crane

The stabilizer ZX-calculus is a rigorous graphical language for reasoning about quantum mechanics.The language is sound and complete: a stabilizer ZX-diagram can be transformed into another one if and only if these two diagrams represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Miriam Backens , Simon Perdrix , Quanlong Wang

We study the existence and limitations for hyperinvariant tensor networks incorporating a local SU(2) symmetry. As discrete implementations of the anti de-Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, such networks have created…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Fynn Otto , Refik Mansuroglu , Norbert Schuch , Otfried Gühne , Hanno Sahlmann

A graphical representation of supersymmetry is presented. It clearly expresses the chiral flow appearing in SUSY quantities, by representing spinors by {\it directed lines} (arrows). The chiral suffixes are expressed by the directions (up,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shoichi Ichinose

The spin network quantum simulator relies on the su(2) representation ring (or its q-deformed counterpart at q= root of unity) and its basic features naturally include (multipartite) entanglement and braiding. In particular, q-deformed spin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Zoltan Kadar , Annalisa Marzuoli , Mario Rasetti

A graphical representation of supersymmetry is presented. It clearly expresses the chiral flow appearing in SUSY quantities, by representing spinors by {\it directed lines} (arrows). The chiral suffixes are expressed by the directions (up,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shoichi Ichinose

The ZX-Calculus is a graphical language for quantum mechanics. An axiomatisation has recently been proven to be complete for an approximatively universal fragment of quantum mechanics, the so-called Clifford+T fragment. We focus here on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Emmanuel Jeandel , Simon Perdrix , Renaud Vilmart

The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for quantum processes with built-in rewrite rules. The rewrite rules allow equalities to be derived entirely graphically, leading to the question of completeness: can any equality that is derivable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Miriam Backens

The ZX-calculus is a graphical language for reasoning about quantum computation using ZX-diagrams, a certain flexible generalisation of quantum circuits that can be used to represent linear maps from $m$ to $n$ qubits for any $m,n \geq 0$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Niel de Beaudrap , Aleks Kissinger , John van de Wetering

There are various gate sets used for describing quantum computation. A particularly popular one consists of Clifford gates and arbitrary single-qubit phase gates. Computations in this gate set can be elegantly described by the ZX-calculus,…

In 2008 Coecke and Duncan proposed the graphical ZX-calculus rewrite system which came to formalize reasoning with quantum circuits, measurements and quantum states. The ZX-calculus is sound for qubit quantum mechanics. Hence, equality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 J Biamonte , A Nasrallah

I discuss the role played by the spin-network basis and recoupling theory (in its graphical tangle-theoretic formulation) and their use for performing explicit calculations in loop quantum gravity. In particular, I show that recoupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Roberto De Pietri

It is well-known that the SU(2) quantum Racah coefficients or the Wigner $6j$ symbols have a closed form expression which enables the evaluation of any knot or link polynomials in SU(2) Chern-Simons field theory. Using isotopy equivalence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-11 Zodinmawia , P. Ramadevi

The SU(2) Wigner function represents a quantum state of a spin-$J$ as a real-valued function on the surface of a 2-sphere. For an ensemble of $N$ spin-1/2 particles, this representation is useful when the dynamics is restricted to a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Andrew Kolmer Forbes

A manifestly Lorentz-covariant formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) is given in terms of finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group. The formulation accounts for discrete symmetries, such as parity and time-reversal, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Cianfrani

Let (\Gamma,d) be the 3D-calculus or the 4D_{\pm}-calculus on the quantum group SU_q(2). We describe all pairs (\pi, F) of a *-representation \pi of O(SU_q(2)) and of a symmetric operator F on the representation space satisfying a technical…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Konrad Schmuedgen

The asymptotics of the SU(2) 15j symbol are obtained using coherent states for the boundary data. The geometry of all non-suppressed boundary data is given. For some boundary data, the resulting formula is interpreted in terms of the Regge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 John W. Barrett , Winston J. Fairbairn , Frank Hellmann

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

The ZX-calculus is a powerful framework for reasoning in quantum computing. It provides in particular a compact representation of matrices of interests. A peculiar property of the ZX-calculus is the absence of a formal sum allowing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Emmanuel Jeandel , Simon Perdrix , Margarita Veshchezerova

We exploit the spin network properties of the magnetic eigenstates of SU(2) Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory and use the Wilson loop operators to obtain a wide class of new identities amongst 3nj Wigner coefficients. We also show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Manu Mathur , Atul Rathor