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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

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

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

The formalism of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) provides us with a non-perturbatively defined model of quantum gravity, where the sum over histories includes only causal space-time histories. Path integrals of CDT and their continuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , W. Westra , S. Zohren

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

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

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

We review some recent attempts to extract information about the nature of quantum gravity, with and without matter, by quantum field theoretical methods. More specifically, we work within a covariant lattice approach where the individual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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 compare the effective action of the scale factor obtained from lattice quantum gravity (in the form of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT)) to the corresponding effective action obtained from the simplest Functional Renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-26 Jan Ambjørn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Gőrlich , Dániel Németh

This article discusses the infrared and the (perspective) ultraviolet limits of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). CDT is a non-perturabtive and background-independent approach to quantization of Einstein's gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

We show recent results of the application of spectral analysis in the setting of the Monte Carlo approach to Quantum Gravity known as Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), discussing the behavior of the lowest lying eigenvalues of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-25 Giuseppe Clemente , Massimo D'Elia , Alessandro Ferraro

Monte Carlo simulations applied to the lattice formulation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) enable a study of the theory from first principles, in a nonperturbative way. After over two decades of developments in the methodology for this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Tereza Mendes

Motivated by the search for new observables in nonperturbative quantum gravity, we consider Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) in 2+1 dimensions with the spatial topology of a torus. This system is of particular interest, because one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-11 T. G. Budd , R. Loll

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

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice approach to quantum gravity. CDT has rich phase structure, including a semiclassical phase consistent with Einstein's general relativity. Some of the observed phase transitions are second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

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

Causal Dynamical Triangulations is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. In this paper we introduce a phenomenological transfer matrix model, where at each time step a reduced set of quantum states is used. The states are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-06 Andrzej Görlich

An outstanding challenge for models of non-perturbative quantum gravity is the consistent formulation and quantitative evaluation of physical phenomena in a regime where geometry and matter are strongly coupled. After developing appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Benedetti , R. Loll

We describe a method of Monte-Carlo simulations of simplicial quantum gravity coupled to matter fields. We concentrate mainly on the problem of implementing effectively the random, dynamical triangulation and building in a detailed-balance…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Bilke , Z. Burda , J. Jurkiewicz