Quantum-Only Metrics in Spherically Symmetric Gravity
Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Quantum Rep. 2020, 2(2), 314-325; https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum2020021
Received: 12 May 2020
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Revised: 7 June 2020
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Accepted: 16 June 2020
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Published: 18 June 2020
The Einstein action for the gravitational field has some properties which make of it, after quantization, a rare prototype of systems with quantum configurations that do not have a classical analogue. Assuming spherical symmetry in order to reduce the effective dimensionality, we have performed a Monte Carlo simulation of the path integral with transition probability . Although this choice does not allow to reproduce the full dynamics, it does lead us to find a large ensemble of metric configurations having action by several magnitude orders. These vacuum fluctuations are strong deformations of the flat space metric (for which exactly). They exhibit a periodic polarization in the scalar curvature R. In the simulation we fix a length scale L and divide it into N sub-intervals. The continuum limit is investigated by increasing N up to ; the average squared action is found to scale as and thermalization of the algorithm occurs at a very low temperature (classical limit). This is in qualitative agreement with analytical results previously obtained for theories with stabilized conformal factor in the asymptotic safety scenario.
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