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Causal Dynamical Triangulations provide a non-perturbative regularization of a theory of quantum gravity. We describe how this approach connects with the asymptotic safety program and Ho\vrava-Lifshitz gravity theory, and present the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We calculate the spectral dimension for a nonperturbative lattice approach to quantum gravity, known as causal dynamical triangulations (CDT), showing that the dimension of spacetime smoothly decreases from approximately 4 on large distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 D. N. Coumbe , J. Jurkiewicz

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

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

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

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 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

Being able to perform explicit computations in a nonperturbative, Planckian regime is key to understanding quantum gravity as a fundamental theory of gravity and spacetime. Rather than a variety of different approaches to quantum gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-31 R. Loll

We describe the motivation behind the recent formulation of a nonperturbative path integral for Lorentzian quantum gravity defined through Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). In the case of two dimensions the model is analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Zohren

We introduce a generalized version of the Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) formulation of quantum gravity, in which the regularized, triangulated path integral histories retain their causal properties, but do not have a preferred…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 S. Jordan , R. Loll

Just as for non-abelian gauge theories at strong coupling, discrete lattice methods are a natural tool in the study of non-perturbative quantum gravity. They have to reflect the fact that the geometric degrees of freedom are dynamical, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Loll

I review the lattice approach to quantum gravity, and how it relates to the non-trivial ultraviolet fixed point scenario of the continuum theory. After a brief introduction covering the general problem of ultraviolet divergences in gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-17 Herbert W. Hamber

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

The functional renormalisation group for the Einstein-Hilbert action is investigated for the case of four infinite (or large) and one compact dimension. The motivation for this study is given by the suggestion that gravity in more than four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-01 Natalia Alkofer

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a proposal for a theory of quantum gravity, which implements a path-integral quantization of gravity as the continuum limit of a sum over piecewise flat spacetime geometries. We use Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-25 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We provide a hands-on introduction to Monte Carlo simulations in nonperturbative lattice quantum gravity, formulated in terms of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We describe explicitly the implementation of Monte Carlo moves and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Joren Brunekreef , Andrzej Görlich , Renate Loll

The causal dynamical triangulations approach aims to construct a quantum theory of gravity as the continuum limit of a lattice-regularized model of dynamical geometry. A renormalization group scheme--in concert with finite size scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Joshua H. Cooperman

We investigate a nonperturbative formulation of quantum gravity defined via Euclidean dynamical triangulations (EDT) with a non-trivial measure term in the path integral. We are motivated to revisit this older formulation of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 Daniel Coumbe , John Laiho

We study the emergence of de Sitter space in Euclidean dynamical triangulations (EDT). Working within the semi-classical approximation, it is possible to relate the lattice parameters entering the simulations to the partition function of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-16 Scott Bassler , Jack Laiho , Marc Schiffer , Judah Unmuth-Yockey

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