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Presentation
Geometry from Quantum Graphity
Reed College (2016)
  • Kassahun Betre, San Jose State University
Abstract
Quantum Graphity models have been proposed as one approach towards Quantum Gravity in which a fully quantum mechanical, background independent system in the high energy gives rise to a low energy state that looks like ordinary spacetime. The high energy states of the Quantum Graphity system are random graphs with microscopic degrees of freedom that live on the edges and vertices. In the low emergy limit, a discretized regular lattice emerges. While this program is promising, much work remains to be done to show that such a low dimensional structure and dynamics results through statistical mechanics. In this talk, I will describe how a uniform dimension emerges in the low energy starting with an assumption of a high energy Hamiltonian that is quadratic in the vertex degrees of the nodes of the graph.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 26, 2016
Location
Portland, OR
Comments
Invited talk.
Citation Information
Kassahun Betre. "Geometry from Quantum Graphity" Reed College (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kassahun-betre/9/