5–10 Jul 2021
Europe/Rome timezone

Holographic maps from quantum gravity states as tensor networks

7 Jul 2021, 11:30
25m
Talk in the parallel session Loop Quantum Gravity Loop Quantum Gravity

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Eugenia Colafranceschi (University of Nottingham)

Description

We define bulk-to-boundary maps corresponding to quantum gravity states in the tensorial group field theory formalism, for quantum geometric models sharing the same type of quantum states of loop quantum gravity. The maps are defined in terms of a partition of the quantum geometric data associated to an open graph into bulk and boundary ones, in the spin representation. After showing that such maps formally correspond to tensor networks (quantum information structures that efficiently encode entanglement in many-body systems), we determine the general condition on the entanglement structure of the state that makes the bulk-to-boundary map isometric (a necessary condition for holographic behaviour), and we analyse different types of quantum states, identifying those that define isometric bulk-to-boundary maps.

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Eugenia Colafranceschi (University of Nottingham)

Co-authors

Dr Goffredo Chirco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli) Dr Daniele Oriti (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

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