Second-Order Phase Transition in Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Abstract
Causal dynamical triangulations are a concrete attempt to define a nonperturbative path integral for quantum gravity. We present strong evidence that the lattice theory has a second-order phase transition line, which can potentially be used to define a continuum limit in the conventional sense of nongravitational lattice theories.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.211303
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1108.3932
- Bibcode:
- 2011PhRvL.107u1303A
- Keywords:
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- 04.60.Gw;
- 64.60.-i;
- Covariant and sum-over-histories quantization;
- General studies of phase transitions;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Lattice
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 3 figures