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The covariance of loop quantum gravity studies of spherically symmetric space-times has recently been questioned. This is a reasonable worry, given that they are formulated in terms of slicing-dependent variables. We show explicitly that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-21 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

A rigorous implementation of the Wheeler-Dewitt equations was derived in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and was coined Quantum Spin Dynamics (QSD). The Hamiltonian constraint of QSD was criticised as being too local and to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-09 Thomas Thiemann , Madhavan Varadarajan

Tensor networks are powerful techniques that widely used in condensed matter physics. In this language, the wave function of a quantum manybody system is described by a network of tensors with specific entanglement structures. Recently, it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-05 Jia-Rui Sun , Yuan Sun

The system of gravity coupled to the non-rotational dust field is studied at both classical and quantum levels. The scalar constraint of the system can be written in the form of a true physical Hamiltonian with respect to the dust time. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Xiangdong Zhang , Yongge Ma

We summarize our work on spherically symmetric midi-superspaces in loop quantum gravity. Our approach is based on using inhomogeneous slicings that may penetrate the horizon in case there is one and on a redefinition of the constraints so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

We present a geometric formulation of quantum mechanics based on the symplectic structure of the projective Hilbert space. Building upon the standard K\"ahler framework, we introduce an extension in which the symplectic structure is allowed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Hoshang Heydari

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-22 Thomas-Paul Hack

Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Abhay Ashtekar

We propose a scheme for the realization of a quantum walker and a quantum simulator for the Dirac equation with ultracold spinor atoms in driven optical lattices. A precise control of the dynamics of the atomic matter wave can be realized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 D. Witthaut

We study the quantum dynamics of de Sitter space formulated as a minisuperspace model with flat spatial hypersurfaces in unimodular gravity, both in the Wheeler-DeWitt approach and in loop quantum cosmology (LQC). Time evolution is defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Steffen Gielen , Rita B. Neves

We give an explicit, rigorous framework for calculating quantum probabilities in a model theory of quantum gravity. Specifically, we construct the decoherence functional for the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-20 David A. Craig , Parampreet Singh

In this work, with the help of the quantum hydrodynamic formalism, the gravitational equation associated to the Dirac field is derived. The hydrodynamic representation of the Dirac equation have been generalizaed to the curved space-time in…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Piero Chiarelli

We use the recently introduced U(N) framework for loop quantum gravity to study the dynamics of spin network states on the simplest class of graphs: two vertices linked with an arbitrary number N of edges. Such graphs represent two regions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Enrique F. Borja , Jacobo Diaz-Polo , Iñaki Garay , Etera R. Livine

We study the quantum mechanics of a Dirac fermion on a curved spacetime manifold. The metric of the spacetime is completely arbitrary, allowing for the discussion of all possible inertial and gravitational field configurations. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

We study the classical and quantum cosmology of a universe in which the matter source is a massive Dirac spinor field and consider cases where such fields are either free or self-interacting. We focus attention on the spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Vakili , S. Jalalzadeh , H. R. Sepangi

Loop quantum gravity envisions a small scale structure of spacetime that is markedly different from that of the classical spacetime continuum. This has ramifications for the excitation of matter fields and for their coupling to gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Refik Mansuroglu , Hanno Sahlmann

We present a new quantization scheme for $2D$ gravity coupled to an $SU(2)$ principal chiral field and a dilaton; this model represents a slightly simplified version of stationary axisymmetric quantum gravity. The analysis makes use of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Korotkin , H. Nicolai

We propose a theory of quantum gravity which formulates the quantum theory as a nonperturbative path integral, where each spacetime history appears with a weight given by the exponentiated Einstein-Hilbert action of the corresponding causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We re-examine the quantum geometrodynamical approach within the Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld theory of gravity, which was first proposed in our previous work [1]. A thorough analysis of the classical Hamiltonian with constraints is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen

Dynamics is considered as a corollary of the space-time geometry. Evolution of a particle in the space-time is described as a chain of connected equivalent geometrical objects. Space-time geometry is determined uniquely by the world…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 Yuri A. Rylov