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most citedComplex critical points and curved geometries in four-dimensional Lorentzian spinfoam quantum gravity

49 citations · 177 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

gr-qc2025

Quantum induced shock dynamics in gravitational collapse: insights from effective models and numerical frameworks

Hongguang Liu, Dongxue Qu

We explore the formation and evolution of shock waves in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse within a Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) inspired effective framework. In this sett…

gr-qc2025

Properties of 4D spinfoam quantum geometry: Results from next-to-leading order spinfoam large- asymptotics of 1-5 Pachner move

Haida Li, Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu +2

This paper proposes several criteria to probe the non-trivialities of 4-dimensional geometry that impact spinfoam amplitude. These criteria include the standard deviation of 4-volu…

gr-qc2024

A Mathematica program for numerically computing real and complex critical points in 4-dimensional Lorentzian spinfoam amplitude

Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu, Dongxue Qu

This work develops a comprehensive algorithm and a Mathematica program to construct boundary data and compute real and complex critical points in spinfoam amplitudes. Our approach…

gr-qc2024★ 10 cited

Spin foam amplitude of the black-to-white hole transition

Muxin Han, Dongxue Qu, Cong Zhang

It has been conjectured that quantum gravity effects may cause the black-to-white hole transition due to quantum tunneling. The transition amplitude of this process is explored wit…

gr-qc2024

Cosmological Dynamics from Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity with Scalar Matter

Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu, Dongxue Qu +2

We study homogenous and isotropic quantum cosmology using the spinfoam formalism of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). We define a coupling of a scalar field to the 4-dimensional Lorentzi…

gr-qc2023★ 18 cited

Complex critical points in Lorentzian spinfoam quantum gravity: 4-simplex amplitude and effective dynamics on double- complex

Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu, Dongxue Qu

The complex critical points are analyzed in the 4-dimensional Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spinfoam model in the large- regime. For the 4-simplex amplitude, ta…

quant-ph2022★ 10 cited

Experimental Simulation of Loop Quantum Gravity on a Photonic Chip

Reinier van der Meer, Zichang Huang, Malaquias Correa Anguita +6

The unification of general relativity and quantum theory is one of the fascinating problems of modern physics. One leading solution is Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Simulating LQG ma…

gr-qc2021★ 49 cited

Complex critical points and curved geometries in four-dimensional Lorentzian spinfoam quantum gravity

Muxin Han, Zichang Huang, Hongguang Liu +1

This paper focuses on the semiclassical behavior of the spinfoam quantum gravity in 4 dimensions. There has been long-standing confusion, known as the flatness problem, about wheth…

gr-qc2020★ 44 cited

Spinfoam on Lefschetz Thimble: Markov Chain Monte-Carlo Computation of Lorentzian Spinfoam Propagator

Muxin Han, Zichang Huang, Hongguang Liu +2

We compute numerically the Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spinfoam propagator on a 4-simplex, by adapting the methods of Lefschetz thimble and Markov Chain Monte-Ca…

gr-qc2020★ 23 cited

Numerical computations of next-to-leading order corrections in spinfoam large- asymptotics

Muxin Han, Zichang Huang, Hongguang Liu +1

We numerically study the next-to-leading order corrections of the Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) 4-simplex amplitude in the large- expansions. We perform large-$…

quant-ph2020★ 18 cited

Efficient Simulation of Loop Quantum Gravity -- A Scalable Linear-Optical Approach

Lior Cohen, Anthony J. Brady, Zichang Huang +4

The problem of simulating complex quantum processes on classical computers gave rise to the field of quantum simulations. Quantum simulators solve problems, such as Boson sampling,…

quant-ph2017★ 5 cited

Measuring Holographic Entanglement Entropy on a Quantum Simulator

Keren Li, Muxin Han, Dongxue Qu +6

Quantum simulation promises to have wide applications in many fields where problems are hard to model with classical computers. Various quantum devices of different platforms have…