A semiclassical tetrahedron

Abstract

We construct a macroscopic semiclassical state state for a quantum tetrahedron. The expectation values of the geometrical operators representing the volume, areas and dihedral angles are peaked around assigned classical values, with vanishing relative uncertainties.

10 pages; v2 revised version

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• Spectral Analysis of the Volume Operator in Loop Quantum Gravity

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