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20192025
most citedThe No-Boundary Proposal as a Path Integral with Robin Boundary Conditions

66 citations · 191 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

quant-ph2025

Optimizing QUBO on a quantum computer by mimicking imaginary time evolution

Yahui Chai, Alice Di Tucci

We propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving QUBO problems using an Imaginary Time Evolution-Mimicking Circuit (ITEMC). The circuit parameters are optimized to close…

quant-ph2024

Quantum convolutional neural networks for jet images classification

Hala Elhag, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen +3

Recently, interest in quantum computing has significantly increased, driven by its potential advantages over classical techniques. Quantum machine learning (QML) exemplifies one of…

gr-qc2023

Path integrals, saddle points and the beginning of the universe

Alice Di Tucci

The very early universe is understood in terms of quantum field theories on curved spacetime, where the classical background spacetime is typically an FLRW cosmology and the quantu…

hep-th2020★ 30 cited

Lessons for quantum cosmology from anti-de Sitter black holes

Alice Di Tucci, Michal P. Heller, Jean-Luc Lehners

Gravitational physics is arguably better understood in the presence of a negative cosmological constant than a positive one, yet there exist strong technical similarities between t…

hep-th2019★ 56 cited

No-boundary prescriptions in Lorentzian quantum cosmology

Alice Di Tucci, Jean-Luc Lehners, Laura Sberna

We analyse the impact of various boundary conditions on the (minisuperspace) Lorentzian gravitational path integral. In particular we assess the implications for the Hartle-Hawking…

gr-qc2019★ 5 cited

Homogeneous Transitions during Inflation: a Description in Quantum Cosmology

Sebastian F. Bramberger, Alice Di Tucci, Jean-Luc Lehners

The usual description of inflationary fluctuations uses the framework of quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime, in which quantum fluctuations are superimposed on a classic…

hep-th2019★ 34 cited

Quantum Incompleteness of Inflation

Alice Di Tucci, Job Feldbrugge, Jean-Luc Lehners +1

Inflation is most often described using quantum field theory (QFT) on a fixed, curved spacetime background. Such a description is valid only if the spatial volume of the region con…

hep-th2019★ 66 cited

The No-Boundary Proposal as a Path Integral with Robin Boundary Conditions

Alice Di Tucci, Jean-Luc Lehners

Realising the no-boundary proposal of Hartle and Hawking as a consistent gravitational path integral has been a long-standing puzzle. In particular, it was demonstrated by Feldbrug…