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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Planckian birth of a quantum de sitter universe
J Ambjørn1, A Görlich, J Jurkiewicz
1Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ambjorn@nbi.dk
Abstract:
We show that the quantum universe emerging from a nonperturbative, Lorentzian sum over geometries can be described with a high accuracy by a four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. By a scaling analysis involving Newton's constant, we establish that the linear size of the quantum universes under study is in between 17 and 28 Planck lengths. Somewhat surprisingly, the measured quantum fluctuations around the de Sitter universe in this regime are to good approximation still describable semiclassically. The numerical evidence presented comes from a regularization of quantum gravity in terms of causal dynamical triangulations.
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