Decoherent histories of spin networks

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9698-4MaRDI QIDQ2391957zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David P. B. Schroeren

Publication date 6 August 2013

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4553

zbMATH Keywords

probabilityquantum gravitydecoherent historiescoarse grainingpath integralspin networkdecoherence functionalclass operatorspin foams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: The decoherent histories formalism, developed by Griffiths, Gell-Mann, and Hartle is a general framework in which to formulate a timeless, `generalised' quantum theory and extract predictions from it. Recent advances in spin foam models allow for loop gravity to be cast in this framework. In this paper, I propose a decoherence functional for loop gravity and interpret existing results as showing that coarse grained histories follow quasiclassical trajectories in the appropriate limit.

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