Quantum cosmology of (loop) quantum gravity condensates: an example

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/15/155009MaRDI QIDQ2877431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Steffen Gielen

Publication date 22 August 2014

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2944, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/151748/1/1404.2944v3.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

group field theoryquantum cosmologyquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Gravitational waves (83C35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Spatially homogeneous universes can be described in (loop) quantum gravity as condensates of elementary excitations of space. Their treatment is easiest in the second-quantised group field theory formalism which allows the adaptation of techniques from the description of Bose-Einstein condensates in condensed matter physics. Dynamical equations for the states can be derived directly from the underlying quantum gravity dynamics. The analogue of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation defines an anisotropic quantum cosmology model, in which the condensate wavefunction becomes a quantum cosmology wavefunction on minisuperspace. To illustrate this general formalism, we give a mapping of the gauge-invariant geometric data for a tetrahedron to a minisuperspace of homogeneous anisotropic 3-metrics. We then study an example for which we give the resulting quantum cosmology model in the general anisotropic case and derive the general analytical solution for isotropic universes. We discuss the interpretation of these solutions. We suggest that the WKB approximation used in previous studies, corresponding to semiclassical fundamental degrees of freedom of quantum geometry, should be replaced by a notion of semiclassicality that refers to large-scale observables instead.

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