Reducing space-time to binary information

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/9/095301zbMATH Open1286.81037arXiv1210.5182OpenAlexW2033577829WikidataQ62610087 ScholiaQ62610087MaRDI QIDQ5409902FDOQ5409902

Authors: Silke Weinfurtner, Gemma De las Cuevas, H. J. Briegel, Miguel A. Martín-Delgado

Publication date: 15 April 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new description of discrete space-time in 1+1 dimensions in terms of a set of elementary geometrical units that represent its independent classical degrees of freedom. This is achieved by means of a binary encoding that is ergodic in the class of space-time manifolds respecting coordinate invariance of general relativity. Space-time fluctuations can be represented in a classical lattice gas model whose Boltzmann weights are constructed with the discretized form of the Einstein-Hilbert action. Within this framework, it is possible to compute basic quantities such as the Ricci curvature tensor and the Einstein equations, and to evaluate the path integral of discrete gravity. The description as a lattice gas model also provides a novel way of quantization and, at the same time, to quantum simulation of fluctuating space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5182

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravity quantum information lattice and discrete methods information and communication theory covariant and sum-over-histories quantization Path-integral methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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