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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

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

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

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 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

Quantum Gravity by Causal Dynamical Triangulation has over the last few years emerged as a serious contender for a nonperturbative description of the theory. It is a nonperturbative implementation of the sum-over-histories, which relies on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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

The aim of the causal dynamical triangulations approach is to define nonperturbatively a quantum theory of gravity as the continuum limit of a lattice-regularized model of dynamical geometry. My aim in this paper is to give a concise yet…

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

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

Causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) constitute a background independent, nonperturbative approach to quantum gravity, in which the gravitational path integral is approximated by the weighted sum over causally well-behaving simplicial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-24 T. Trzesniewski

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 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

A major unsolved problem in theoretical physics is to reconcile the classical theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. These lectures will deal with an attempt to describe quantum gravity as a path integral over geometries known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jan Ambjorn , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Renate Loll

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

Asymptotic safety describes a scenario in which general relativity can be quantized as a conventional field theory, despite being nonrenormalizable when expanding it around a fixed background geometry. It is formulated in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-06 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

Previous work has shown that the macroscopic structure of the theory of quantum gravity defined by causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) is compatible with that of a de Sitter universe. After emphasizing the strictly nonperturbative nature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 J. Ambjorn , A. Gorlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , T. Trzesniewski

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

We argue that theories of quantum gravity constructed with the help of (Causal) Dynamical Triangulations have given us the most informative, quantitative models to date of quantum spacetime. Most importantly, these are derived dynamically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

The dynamical generation of a four-dimensional classical universe from nothing but fundamental quantum excitations at the Planck scale is a long-standing challenge to theoretical physicists. A candidate theory of quantum gravity which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-08 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , 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