Hybrid Geometrodynamics: A Hamiltonian description of classical gravity coupled to quantum matter

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AD3459arXiv2307.00922MaRDI QIDQ6510883FDOQ6510883

Authors: J. Alonso, C. Bouthelier-Madre, J. Clemente-Gallardo, D. Martínez-Crespo 

Abstract: We generelize the Hamiltonian picture of General Relativity coupled to classical matter, known as geometrodynamics, to the case where such matter is described by a Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, but gravity is still described by a classical metric tensor field over a spatial hypersurface and its associated momentum. Thus, in our approach there is no non-dynamic background structure, apart from the manifold of events, and the gravitational and quantum degrees of freedom have their dynamics inextricably coupled. Given the Hamiltonian nature of the framework, there is no need to search for a consistent quantum stress-energy tensor, but instead we work with the generators of hypersurface deformations over the manifold of quantum states. The construction relies heavily on the differential geometry of a fibration of the set of quantum states over the set of gravitational variables, and the introduction of a notion of quantum connection. The most remarkable physical implications of the construction are norm conservation of the quantum state (even if the total dynamics are non-unitary), the clear identification of the hybrid conserved quantities and the description of a dynamical backreaction of quantum matter on geometry and vice versa, which shall modify the physical properties the gravitational field would have in the absence of backreaction.

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