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Bianchi, Eugenio. "Loop Quantum Gravity." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85828.
Full textConrady, Florian. "Semiclassical analysis of loop quantum gravity." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=982087144.
Full textSahlmann, Hanno. "Coupling matter to loop quantum gravity." Phd thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://pub.ub.uni-potsdam.de/2002/0032/sahlmann.pdf.
Full textBen, Achour Jibril. "Towards self dual Loop Quantum Gravity." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. https://theses.hal.science/tel-01396791.
Full textIn this PhD thesis, we introduced a new strategy to investigate the kinematical and physical predictions of self dual Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and by-passed the old problem of implementing quantum mechanically the so called reality conditions inherent to the self dual formulation. This strategy relies on an analytic continuation which send the Barber() Immirzi parameter from its real value to the purely imaginary one, corresponding to the self dual variables. We investigate this procedure in the context of black holes quantization and show that it leads to a more satisfying derivation of the semi classical results of the thermodynamics of black hole within the LQG context. We investigate further this procedure in a toy model of three dimensional gravity, as well as in the context of Loop Quantum Cosmology. This procedure seems to provide an interesting candidate to investigate the self dual version of LQG, which has remain elusive since the very advent of the self dual variables in 1986
Koslowski, Tim Andreas. "Cosmological Sectors in Loop Quantum Gravity." Doctoral thesis, kostenfrei, 2008. http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-wuerzburg/volltexte/2008/2824/.
Full textConrady, Florian. "Semiclassical analysis of loop quantum gravity." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15549.
Full textIn this Ph.D. thesis, we explore and develop new methods that should help in determining an effective semiclassical description of canonical loop quantum gravity and spin foam gravity. A brief introduction to loop quantum gravity is followed by three research papers that present the results of the Ph.D. project. In the first article, we deal with the problem of time and a new proposal for implementing proper time as boundary conditions in a sum over histories: we investigate a concrete realization of this formalism for free scalar field theory. In the second article, we translate semiclassical states of linearized gravity into states of loop quantum gravity. The properties of the latter indicate how semiclassicality manifests itself in the loop framework, and how this may be exploited for doing semiclassical expansions. In the third part, we propose a new formulation of spin foam models that is fully triangulation- and background-independent: by means of a symmetry condition, we identify spin foam models whose triangulation-dependence can be naturally removed.
Feller, Alexandre. "Entanglement and Decoherence in Loop Quantum Gravity." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEN058/document.
Full textA quantum theory of gravitation aims at describing the gravitational interaction at every scales of energy and distance. However, understanding the emergence of our classical spacetime is still an open issue in many proposals. This thesis analyzes this problem in loop quantum gravity with tools borrowed from quantum information theory.This is done in several steps. Since loop quantum gravity is still under construction, a pragmatic point of view is advocated and an ansazt for physical states of the gravitational field is studied at first, motivated from condensed matter physics and simple intuitions. We analyze the proposal of reconstructing geometry from correlations. Lessons on the quantum dynamics and the Hamiltonian constraint are extracted. The second aspect of this work focuses on the physics of sub-systems and especially the physics of their boundary. We begin by calculating the entanglement entropy between the interior and the exterior of the region, recovering the holographic law known from classical black hole physics. Then different boundary dynamics are studied, both in the isolated and open cases, which shed lights again on the fundamental dynamics. Finally, the last aspect of this research studies the dynamics of the boundary interacting with an environment whose degrees of freedom (gravitational or matter) forming the rest of the Universe and especially the decoherence it induces. This allows to discuss the quantum to classical transition and understand, in a given model, the pointer states of geometry
Arnsdorf, Matthias. "Loop quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spaces." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394245.
Full textLillo, Davide. "Bouncing black holes in loop quantum gravity." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8320/.
Full textWieland, Wolfgang Martin. "The Chiral Structure of Loop Quantum Gravity." Phd thesis, Aix-Marseille Université, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00952498.
Full textDOPLICHER, LUISA. "Propagation kernel techniques for loop quantum gravity." Doctoral thesis, La Sapienza, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/917136.
Full textCharles, Christoph. "Renormalization and Coarse-graining of Loop Quantum Gravity." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSEN053/document.
Full textThe continuum limit of loop quantum gravity is still an open problem. Indeed, no proper dynamics in known to start with and we still lack the mathematical tools to study its would-be continuum limit. In the present PhD dissertation, we will investigate some coarse-graining methods that should become helpful in this enterprise. We concentrate on two aspects of the theory's coarse-graining: finding natural large scale observables on one hand and studying how the dynamics of varying graphs could be cast onto fixed graphs on the other hand.To determine large scale observables, we study the case of hyperbolic tetrahedra and their natural description in a language close to loop quantum gravity. The surface holonomies in particular play an important role. This highlights the structure of double spin networks, which consist in a graph and its dual, which seems to also appear in works from Freidel et al. To solve the problem of varying graphs, we consider and define loopy spin networks. They encode the local curvature with loops around an effective vertex and allow to describe different graphs by hidding them in a coarse-graining process. Moreover, their definition gives a natural procedure for coarse-graining allowing to relate different scales.Together, these two results constitute the foundation of a coarse-graining programme for diffeomorphism invariant theories
Flori, Cecilia. "Approaches to quantum gravity." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16344.
Full textOne of the main challenges in theoretical physics over the last five decades has been to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity into a theory of quantum gravity. However, such a theory has been proved to be hard to attain due to i) conceptual difficulties present in both the component theories (General Relativity (GR) and Quantum Theory); ii) lack of experimental evidence, since the regimes at which quantum gravity is expected to be applicable are far beyond the range of conceivable experiments. Despite these difficulties, various approaches for a theory of Quantum Gravity have been developed. In this thesis we focus on two such approaches: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Topos theoretic approach. The choice fell on these approaches because, although they both reject the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, their underpinning philosophical approach to formulating a quantum theory of gravity are radically different. In particular LQG is a rather conservative scheme, inheriting all the formalism of both GR and Quantum Theory, as it tries to bring to its logical extreme consequences the possibility of combining the two. On the other hand, the Topos approach involves the idea that a radical change of perspective is needed in order to solve the problem of quantum gravity, especially in regard to the fundamental concepts of `space'' and `time''. Given the partial successes of both approaches, the hope is that it might be possible to find a common ground in which each approach can enrich the other.
Hedeman, Austin J. "Semiclassical Analysis of Fundamental Amplitudes in Loop Quantum Gravity." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3686321.
Full textSpin networks arise in many areas of physics and are a key component in both the canonical formulation (loop quantum gravity) and the path-integral formulation (spin-foam gravity) of quantum gravity. In loop quantum gravity the spin networks are used to construct a countable basis for the physical Hilbert space of gravity. The basis states may be interpreted as gauge-invariant wavefunctionals of the connection. Evaluating the wavefunctional on a specific classical connection involves embedding the spin network into a spacelike hypersurface and finding the holonomy around the network. This is equivalent to evaluating a ''g-inserted'' spin network (a spin network with a group action acting on all of the edges of the network). The spin-foam approach to quantum gravity is a path-integral formulation of loop quantum gravity in which the paths are world-histories of embedded spin networks. Depending on the spin-foam model under consideration the vertex amplitude (the contribution a spin-foam vertex makes to the transition amplitude) may be represented by a specific simple closed spin network. The most important examples use the 6j-symbol, the 15j-symbol, and the Riemannian 10j-symbol. The semiclassical treatment of spin networks is the main theme of this dissertation.
To show that classical solutions of general relativity emerge in the appropriate limits of loop quantum gravity or spin-foam gravity requires knowledge of the semiclassical limits of spin networks. This involves interpreting the spin networks as inner products and then treating the inner products semiclassically using the WKB method and the stationary phase approximation. For any given spin network there are many possible inner product models which correspond to how the spin network is ''split up'' into pieces. For example the 6 j-symbol has been studied in both a model involving four angular momenta (Aquilanti et al 2012) and a model involving twelve angular momenta (Roberts 1999). Each of these models offers advantages and disadvantages when performing semiclassical analyses. Since the amplitude of the stationary phase approximation relies on determinants they are easiest to calculate in phase spaces with the fewest dimensions. The phase, on the other hand, is easiest to compute in cases where all angular momenta are treated on an equal footing, requiring a larger phase space.
Surprisingly, the different inner product models are not related by symplectic reduction (the removal of a symmetry from a Hamiltonian system). There is a connection between the models, however. On the level of linear algebra the connection is made by considering first not inner products but matrix elements of linear operators. A given matrix element can then be interpreted as an inner product in two different Hilbert spaces. We call the connection between these two inner product models the ''remodeling of an inner product.'' The semiclassical version of an inner product remodeling is a generalization of the idea that the phase space manifold that supports the semiclassical approximation of a unitary operator may be considered the graph of a symplectomorphism. We use the manifold that supports the semiclassical approximation of the linear map to ''transport'' features from one space to another. Using this transport procedure we can show that the amplitude and phase calculations in the phase spaces for the two models are identical. The asymptotics of a complicated spin network, and thus the fundamental amplitudes of loop quantum gravity and spin-foam gravity, may be computed by first setting up an inner product remodeling and then picking and choosing which features of the calculation to perform in which space.
In this dissertation we first introduce the remodeling of an inner product and the semiclassical features of the remodeling. We then apply the remodeling to the well-studied cases of the 3j-symbol and the 6 j-symbol. Finally we explore how the remodel procedure applies to more complicated spin networks such as the 15j-symbol and the g-inserted spin networks of loop quantum gravity.
Calcinari, Andrea. "Loop quantum gravity: quantum space and new coherent states from twisted geometries." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20474/.
Full textStagno, Gabriele Vittorio. "Quantum cosmology in loop quantum gravity : 2-vertex spinfoam amplitudes and effective hamiltonians." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0190.
Full textWe first studied the transition amplitudes in loop quantum gravity (LQG) between two dipole spin-networks, as provided by the EPRL spinfoam model with 2 non-simplicial vertices. A systematic evaluation of these transition amplitudes has been discussed, identifying which ones were relevant for physical processes. Large scale spin behavior and correlations between the initial and final states has been evaluated, analytically for a simplified model and numerically for the full one, finding that the contributions of different graphs can be organized according to their behavior of setting to the scale in a hierarchy that is also preserved at small pirouettes and well captured already by a simplified model introduced.Beside, the effective quantum cosmological dynamics has been addressed for both isotropic and non isotropic models within the framework of Quantum reduced loop gravity (QRLG), a gauge fixed version of LQG. Dynamics has been addressed by means of a new regularization scheme based on states prepared in a superposition of graphs. New Hamiltonians have been computed, showing the usual regularization schemes introduced in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) naturally fit in this new scheme. Then we extended the domain of validity of our model to the non-isotropic case (Bianchi I spacetime). Both for isotropic and non isotropic cases, the new Hamiltonians generate a dynamics which is different from the one provided by LQC: in the isotropic case, the symmetric big bounce scenario is replaced by an evolution which is quasi stationary in the pre bounce phase and then follows the usual expansion. For Bianchi I an intriguing accelerated phase replaces the stationary one
D'Ambrosio, Fabio. "Semi-classical holomorphic transition amplitudes in covariant loop quantum gravity." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://theses.univ-amu.fr.lama.univ-amu.fr/190923_DAMBROSIO_92jrqgfl67z519ckyxxo477uxty_TH.pdf.
Full textCovariant Loop Quantum Gravity (CLQG) is a tentative theory of quantum gravity which has emerged from a number of different research directions. Recently, it has been applied to the so-called black hole to white hole transition – a particular model of stellar collapse which resolves the information puzzle and potentially leads to observable effects. However, several conceptual and computational obstacles have impeded progress in the investigation of this physical scenario.This thesis addresses some of these issues: An integration measure for heat kernel states in the twisted geometry parametrization is derived which is necessary to define physical observables, a simplicial triangulation algorithm for manifolds of topology I x Σ is described and a new method is developed for computing holomorphic transition amplitudes in the absence of critical points. This new method can be seen as a semi-classical expansion of CLQG amplitudes around a classical background spacetime
Fazzini, Francesco. "Bouncing universes analytic and effective dynamics in reduced-symmetry models of loop quantum cosmology." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/25123/.
Full textNicotra, Alessandro. "Analytical map between EPRL spin foam models in loop quantum gravity." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23179/.
Full textHanusch, Maximilian [Verfasser]. "Invariant connections and symmetry reduction in loop quantum gravity / Maximilian Hanusch." Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1064647138/34.
Full textFlori, Cecilia [Verfasser], Christopher J. [Akademischer Betreuer] Isham, Jan [Akademischer Betreuer] Plefka, and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiemann. "Approaches to quantum gravity : Loop quantum gravity, spinfoams and Topos approach / Cecilia Flori. Gutachter: Christopher J. Isham ; Jan Plefka ; Thomas Thiemann." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1015129846/34.
Full textPranzetti, Daniele. "TQFT and Loop Quantum Gravity : 2+1 Theory and Black Hole Entropy." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX10032.
Full textThis thesis work concentrates on the non-perturbative canonical approach to the formulation of a quantum theory of gravity in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), addressing two major problems. In the first part, we investigate the possible quantization, in the context of LQG, of three dimensional gravity in the case of non-vanishing cosmological constant and try to make contact with alternative quantization approaches already existing in the literature. In the second part, we concentrate on a very important application of LQG: the definition and the counting of microstates of a statistical mechanical ensemble which provides a description and accounts for the black hole entropy. Our analysis strongly relies on and extends to a manifestly SU(2) invariant treatment the seminal work of Ashtekar et al
Wöhr, Andreas J. [Verfasser], and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Teufel. "Global Formalism of Loop Quantum Gravity / Andreas J. Wöhr ; Betreuer: Stefan Teufel." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1163236373/34.
Full textMelis, Marco. "Gauge invariant coefficients in perturbative quantum gravity." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/25477/.
Full textCollet, François. "Short scale study of 4-simplex assembly with curvature, in euclidean Loop Quantum Gravity." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM4076/document.
Full textA study of symmetrical assembly of three euclidean 4-simplices in classical, Regge and quantum geometry. We study the geometric properties and especially the presence of curvature. We show that classical and Regge geometry of the assembly have curvature which evolves in function of its boundary parameters. For the quantum geometry, a euclidean version of EPRL model is used with a convenient value of the Barbero-Immirzi parameter to define the transition amplitude of the assembly and its components. A C++ code is design for compute the amplitudes and study numerically the quantum geometry. We show that a classical geometry, with curvature, emerges already at low spin. We also recognize the appearance of the degenerate configurations and their effects on the expected geometry
Liegener, Klaus [Verfasser], Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiemann, and Thomas [Gutachter] Thiemann. "Renormalisation in Loop Quantum Gravity / Klaus Liegener ; Gutachter: Thomas Thiemann ; Betreuer: Thomas Thiemann." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2019. http://d-nb.info/1178794083/34.
Full textMatsubara, Keizo. "Stringed along or caught in a loop? : Philosophical reflections on modern quantum gravity research." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-185554.
Full textThurn, Andreas [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiemann. "Higher dimensional and supersymmetric extensions of loop quantum gravity / Andreas Thurn. Gutachter: Thomas Thiemann." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2014. http://d-nb.info/1075741289/34.
Full textVeraguth, Olivier J. "Conformal loop quantum gravity : avoiding the Barbero-Immirzi ambiguity with a scalar-tensor theory." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=236513.
Full textStottmeister, Alexander [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiemann. "On the Embedding of Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes into Loop Quantum Gravity / Alexander Stottmeister. Gutachter: Thomas Thiemann." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2015. http://d-nb.info/1076166393/34.
Full textReyes, Juan Daniel Bojowald Martin. "Spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity connections to two-dimensional models and applications to gravitational collapse /." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-4758/index.html.
Full textKaminski, Diana [Verfasser], Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] Fleischhack, and Joachim [Akademischer Betreuer] Hilgert. "Some operator algebraic techniques in Loop Quantum Gravity / Diana Kaminski. Betreuer: Christian Fleischhack ; Joachim Hilgert." Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1036228002/34.
Full textMartineau, Killian. "Quelques aspects de cosmologie et de physique des trous noirs en gravitation quantique à boucles Detailed investigation of the duration of inflation in loop quantum cosmology for a Bianchi I universe with different inflaton potentials and initial conditions Some clarifications on the duration of inflation in loop quantum cosmology A first step towards the inflationary trans-Planckian problem treatment in loop quantum cosmology Scalar spectra of primordial perturbations in loop quantum cosmology Phenomenology of quantum reduced loop gravity in the isotropic cosmological sector Primordial Power Spectra from an Emergent Universe: Basic Results and Clarifications Fast radio bursts and the stochastic lifetime of black holes in quantum gravity Quantum fields in the background spacetime of a polymeric loop black hole Quasinormal modes of black holes in a toy-model for cumulative quantum gravity Seeing through the cosmological bounce: Footprints of the contracting phase and luminosity distance in bouncing models Dark matter as Planck relics without too exotic hypotheses A Status Report on the Phenomenology of Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity: Evaporation, Tunneling to White Holes, Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAY044.
Full textAfter decades of being confined to mathematical physics, quantum gravity now enters the field of experimental science. Following this trend, we consider throughout this thesis three implementation frameworks of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG): the Universe as a system, black holes and astroparticles. The last one is only outlined while the first two are presented in more detail.Since the cosmological sector is one of the most promising areas for testing and constraining quantum gravity theories, it was not long before the development of different models attempting to apply the ideas of the LQG to the primordial Universe. The work we present deals with the phenomenology associated with these models; both in the homogeneous sector (where we focus particularly on the duration of the inflation phase), as in the inhomogeneous sector (where this time, we study the fate of the primordial power spectra). These combined studies then allow us to specify to what extent effects of (loop) quantum gravity can be observed in the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background.On the other hand black holes, not content to be among the strangest and most fascinating objects of the Universe, are also prominent probes to test the theories of gravitation. We develop the phenomenology associated with different treatments of black holes in the loop quantum gravity framework, which intervenes on multiple levels: from the evaporation of Hawking to gravitational waves, including dark matter. This is undoubtedly a rich and vast area.Finally, the existence of a minimal length scale, predicted by the majority of quantum gravity theories, suggests a generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. On the basis of this observation, we also present in this manuscript a methodology to derive a new relation dispersion of light from the most widely used generalized uncertainty principle
Zipfel, Antonia [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Thiemann. "On the relation of canonical and covariant formulations of Loop Quantum Gravity / Antonia Zipfel. Gutachter: Thomas Thiemann." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2015. http://d-nb.info/1075840295/34.
Full textMünch, Johannes [Verfasser], and Norbert [Akademischer Betreuer] Bodendorfer. "Cosmological and Black Hole Singularities in Effective Loop Quantum Gravity and Holography / Johannes Münch ; Betreuer: Norbert Bodendorfer." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1214886973/34.
Full textThürigen, Johannes. "Discrete quantum geometries and their effective dimension." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17309.
Full textIn several approaches towards a quantum theory of gravity, such as group field theory and loop quantum gravity, quantum states and histories of the geometric degrees of freedom turn out to be based on discrete spacetime. The most pressing issue is then how the smooth geometries of general relativity, expressed in terms of suitable geometric observables, arise from such discrete quantum geometries in some semiclassical and continuum limit. In this thesis I tackle the question of suitable observables focusing on the effective dimension of discrete quantum geometries. For this purpose I give a purely combinatorial description of the discrete structures which these geometries have support on. As a side topic, this allows to present an extension of group field theory to cover the combinatorially larger kinematical state space of loop quantum gravity. Moreover, I introduce a discrete calculus for fields on such fundamentally discrete geometries with a particular focus on the Laplacian. This permits to define the effective-dimension observables for quantum geometries. Analysing various classes of quantum geometries, I find as a general result that the spectral dimension is more sensitive to the underlying combinatorial structure than to the details of the additional geometric data thereon. Semiclassical states in loop quantum gravity approximate the classical geometries they are peaking on rather well and there are no indications for stronger quantum effects. On the other hand, in the context of a more general model of states which are superposition over a large number of complexes, based on analytic solutions, there is a flow of the spectral dimension from the topological dimension d on low energy scales to a real number between 0 and d on high energy scales. In the particular case of 1 these results allow to understand the quantum geometry as effectively fractal.
Cailleteau, Thomas. "Etude des perturbations cosmologiques et dérivation des observables en Gravité Quantique à Boucles." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00749162.
Full textFrodden, Ernesto. "Sur les propriétés thermodynamiques et quantiques des trous noirs." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM4059.
Full textBlack holes are studied from a theoretical point of view. The thermodynamics and quantum properties are addressed from a new perspective. A range of logically connected problems are explored: Starting from the laws of black hole mechanics, going through the Euclidean partition function, to the microscopic quantum granular models.The approach is supported by two guiding principles: What is physically relevant for black hole thermodynamics lays close to the horizon and the quantum geometry of the spacetime is coarse-grained.The first law of black hole mechanics is reviewed from the new quasilocal perspective based on near horizon observers. It turns out that the first law can be reformulated as variations of the area of the horizon. On the same grounds, the semiclassical Euclidean partition function is reviewed from the new quasilocal perspective. The framework reproduces the classic Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the newly introduced quasilocal energy.The quasilocal approach can also be addressed by using Isolated Horizons. The quantization procedures are explored for the rotating Isolated Horizon starting from a symplectic structure analysis, and using the Loop Quantum Gravity Hilbert space. Finally, through a statistical analysis, the macroscopic consequences of the quantum granular model based on the Loop Quantum Gravity approach are studied. Special emphasis is put on the rotating quantum black hole model, however the results are not conclusive as several assumptions should be made on the way. Nevertheless, the perspective is promising as some of the semiclassical results, for instance the entropy, can be reproduced
Jayasooriya, Arachchilage Dinush Lanka Panditharathna. "Spin Network Evaluation and the Asymptotic Behavior." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1825.
Full textRiello, Aldo. "Corrections radiatives en gravité quantique à mousse de spins : Une étude du graphe de Self énergie dans le modèle EPRL Lorentzien." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM4028/document.
Full textI present the first quantitative study of radiative corrections within the EPRL model of quantum gravity. This model is the most advanced proposal of Lorentzian 4-dimensional background-independent quantum gravity. It is a realization of the path-integral quantization of general relativity as a sum over geometries. The present study focuses on the properties and geometrical features of the analogue of the self-energy graph within the model, often referred to as the "melon"-graph. Here, I show that the dominating contribution to such a graph is characterized by a degree of divergence much smaller than that of closely related topological quantum field theories. Moreover, I work out in detail the dependence of the amplitude from the boundary data, and find that the self-energy graph does not simply induce a wave function renormaliziation. This happens for reasons deeply related to the model foundations. However, it turns out that the amplitude reduces to a wave function renormalzation in the limit of large quantum numbers. Then, I show the consequences of this calculations on a concrete spinfoam observable: the quantum-metric two-point function. In doing this, I show how the insertion of the self-energy graph in the bulk of the (first-order) spinfoam used in the calculation, has non-trivial effects on the correlation function, modifying its leading order contributions. Most interestingly, this effects do not disappear in the limit of large quantum number. Finally, I discuss the consequences of these calculations for the model itself, and I point out and comment those general features which seem to be common to any spinfoam model based on the present model-building schemes
Carrozza, Sylvain. "Tensorial methods and renormalization in Group Field Theories." Thesis, Paris 11, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA112147/document.
Full textIn this thesis, we study the structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory.Such quantum field theories are found in approaches to quantum gravity related to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) on the one hand,and to matrix models and tensor models on the other hand. They model quantum space-time, in the sense that their Feynman amplitudes label triangulations, which can be understood as transition amplitudes between LQG spin network states. The question of renormalizability is crucial if one wants to establish interesting GFTs as well-defined (perturbative) quantum field theories, and in a second step connect them to known infrared gravitational physics. Relying on recently developed tensorial tools, this thesis explores the GFT formalism in two complementary directions. First, new results on the large cut-off expansion of the colored Boulatov-Ooguri models allow to explore further a non-perturbative regime in which infinitely many degrees of freedom contribute. The second set of results provide a new rigorous framework for the renormalization of so-called Tensorial GFTs (TGFTs) with gauge invariance condition. In particular, a non-trivial 3d TGFT with gauge group SU(2) is proven just-renormalizable at the perturbative level, hence opening the way to applications of the formalism to (3d Euclidean) quantum gravity
Ari, Wahyoedi Seramika. "La géométrie statistique : une étude sur les cases classique et quantique." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM4033.
Full textA fixed theory of gravity is far from being complete. The most promising theory of gravity in this century is general relativity (GR), which is still plagued by several problems. The problems we highlight in this thesis are the thermodynamical aspects and the quantization of gravity. Attempts to understand the termodynamical aspect of GR have already been studied through the thermodynamics of black holes, while the theory of quantum gravity has already had several candidates, one of them being the canonical loop quantum gravity (LQG), which is the base theory in our work
Zhang, Mingyi. "Gravité quantique à boucles et géométrie discrète." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM4027/document.
Full textIn this thesis, I will present how to extract discrete geometries of space-time fromthe covariant formulation of loop quantum gravity (LQG), which is called the spinfoam formalism. LQG is a quantum theory of gravity that non-perturbative quantizesgeneral relativity independent from a fix background. It predicts that the geometryof space is quantized, in which area and volume can only take discrete value. Thekinematical Hilbert space is spanned by Penrose's spin network functions. The excita-tion of geometry can be neatly visualized as fuzzy polyhedra that glued through theirfacets. The spin foam defines the dynamics of LQG by a spin foam amplitude on acellular complex, bounded by the spin network states. There are three main results inthis thesis. First, the semiclassical limit of the spin foam amplitude on an arbitrarysimplicial cellular complex with boundary is studied completely. The classical discretegeometry of space-time is reconstructed and classified by the critical configurations ofthe spin foam amplitude. Second, the three-point function from LQG is calculated.It coincides with the results from discrete gravity. Third, the description of discretegeometries of null hypersurfaces is explored in the context of LQG. In particular, thenull geometry is described by a Euclidean singular structure on the two-dimensionalspacelike surface defined by a foliation of space-time by null hypersurfaces. Its quan-tization is U(1) spin network states which are embedded nontrivially in the unitaryirreducible representations of the Lorentz group
Wieland, Wolfgang. "Structure chirale de la gravité quantique à boucles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM4094/document.
Full textGeneral relativity is the most precise theory of the gravitational interaction. It is a classical field theory. All matter, on the other hand, follows the rules of quantum theory. At the Planck scale, at about distances of the order of 10E-35 meters, both theories become equally important. Today, theoretical physics lacks a unifying language to explore what happens at this scale, but there are several candidate theories available. Loop quantum gravity is one them, and it is the main topic of this thesis. To see whether a particular proposal is a viable candidate for a quantum theory of the gravitational field it must be free of internal inconsistencies, and agree with all experimental tests of general relativity. This thesis develops mathematical tools to check these
Christodoulou, Marios. "Transition de géométrie en gravité quantique à boucles covariante." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0273.
Full textIn this manuscript we present a calculation from covariant Loop Quantum Gravity, of a physical observable in a non-perturbative quantum gravitational physical process. The process regards the transition of a trapped region to an anti--trapped region and is treated as a quantum geometry transition akin to gravitational tunneling. The physical observable is the characteristic timescale in which the process takes place. We start with a top--to--bottom formal derivation of the ansatz defining the amplitudes for covariant LQG, starting from the Hilbert-Einstein action. We then take the bottom--to--top path, starting from the EPRL ansatz, to the sum--over--geometries path integral emerging in the semi-classical limit, and discuss its close relation to the naive path integral over the Regge action. We proceed to the construction of wave--packets describing quantum spacelike three-geometries that include a notion of embedding in a Lorentzian spacetime. We derive a simple estimation for the amplitudes describing geometry transition and show that a probabilistic description for such phenomena emerges, with the probability of the phenomena to take place being in general non-vanishing.The Haggard-Rovelli spacetime, modelling the spacetime surrounding the geometry transition region for a black to white hole process, is formulated. We then use the semi--classical approximation to give a general estimation of amplitudes describing the process. We conclude that the transition is predicted to be allowed by LQG, with a crossing time that is linear in the mass. The probability for the process to take place is suppressed but non-zero
Ding, You. "Spinfoams : simplicity constraints ans correlation functions." Thesis, Aix-Marseille 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AIX22074/document.
Full textIn this thesis we study the implementation of simplicity constraints that defines the recent Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine spinfoam model and two-point correlation functions of this model. We define in a simple way the boundary Hilbert space of the theory; then show directly that all constraints vanish on this space in a weak sense. We point out that the general solution to this constraint (imposed weakly) depends on a quantum number in addition to those of loop quantum gravity. We also generalize this construction to Kami´nski-Kisielowski-Lewandowski version where the foam is not dual to a triangulation. We show that this theory can still be obtained as a constrained BF theory satisfying the simplicity constraint, now discretized on a general oriented 2-cell complex. Finally, we calculate the twopoint correlation function of the Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine spinfoam model in the Lorentzian signature, and show the two-point function we obtain exactly matches the one obtained from Lorentzian Regge calculus in some limit
Smedbäck, Mikael. "Topics on D-branes and Holography." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Theoretical Physics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4478.
Full textWe discuss various aspects of D-branes in string theory and holography in string theory and loop quantum gravity.
One way to study D-branes is from a microscopic perspective, using conformal field theory techniques. For example, we investigate the question of how D-branes can be introduced into orbifolded theories. Another way to study D-branes is from a space-time perspective. An example is provided by unstable D-branes, where we compute an effective action describing the decay of a bosonic D-brane.
The holographic principle is a proposed duality which suggests that a theory in any region has a dual description on the boundary. We explore two examples: (1) The area law for the entropy of a black hole in the framework of loop quantum gravity, related to particular regularizations of the area operator. (2) The AdS/CFT correspondence proposal, where we investigate a string pulsating on AdS using spin chains.
Toh, Tze-Chuen. "Non-perturbative quantum gravity : the loop representation." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144128.
Full textAssanioussi, Mehdi. "New dynamics for canonical loop quantum gravity." Doctoral thesis, 2016.
Find full textKanoniczna pętlowa grawitacja kwantowa (LQG) jest kanoniczną kwantyzacją teorii względności w ujęciu formalizmu hamiltonowskiego, która poprawnie uzupełniła konstrukcję kinematycznej przestrzeni Hilberta oraz implementacji więzów gaussowskich i więzów przestrzennego dyfeomorfizmu. Pierwsza część ma charakter ogólnego wprowadzenia do formalizmu hamiltonowskiego Ashtekara-Barbero w teorii względności oraz szczegółowego przeglądu LQG. W drugiej części prezentuję nowe podejście do kwantyzacji hamiltonianu w różnych modelach LQG. Wyniki pozwolają udoskonalić dynamikę w teorii. Konstrukcja oparta jest na nowej metodzie regularyzacji klasycznych funkcjonałów, zaczynając od budowy nowego operatora geometrycznego - operatora krzywizny - związanego z trójwymiarową krzywizną Ricciego. Nowe podejście prowadzi do dyfeomorficznie niezmienniczego więzú skalarnego operatora w próżni LQG z algebrą więzów wolną od anomalii. Co więcej, dzięki nowej metodzie jest możliwe skonstruowanie pożądanego rozszerzenia symetrii z możliwością uzyskania rozszerzenia samosprzężonego. W trzeciej części, pokazuję jak nowa regularyzacja jest wykorzystana to wprowadzenia symetrycznych operatorów Hamiltona w przypadku dwóch deparametryzowanych modeli LQG, uzupełniających kwantyzacji modeli z pełną implementacją grawitacyjnych stopni swobody. Na koniec przedstawiam metodę przybliżeń opartą na niezależnej od czasu metodzie peturbacji, która została wykorzystana do uzyskania operatorów Hamiltona w deparametryzowanych modelach oraz tam, gdzie parametr perturbacji zależy od parametru Barbero-Immirzi.
Lai, Chung Lun Alan. "On the JLO Character and Loop Quantum Gravity." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29782.
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