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Finding and characterising physical states of Euclidean Abelianized loop quantum gravity using neural quantum states

Hanno Sahlmann·Waleed Sherif
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We study physical (near-kernel of constraints) states of 4-d Euclidean loop quantum gravity in Smolin's weak coupling limit on the complete graph $K_5$ using variational Monte Carlo with neural network quantum states. We investigate the Hamilton constraint $\hat{H}$ in the ordering proposed by Thiemann, as well as $\hat{H}^\dagger$ and $\hat{H}+\hat{H}^\dagger$. We find that the variational optimisation selects distinct solution families for $\hat{H}$ and $\hat{H}^\dagger$ across several considered cutoffs on the kinematical degrees of freedom. The solution family of $\hat{H}$ is flat on all minimal loops and has non-vanishing volume expectation values. Its edge-charge marginals delocalise with increasing cutoff, which indicates they are approximations to solutions that are non-normalisable in the kinematical inner product. The solution family for $\hat{H}^\dagger$ is normalisable, shows non-trivial charge correlations, lies in the kernel of volume and is not flat. $\hat{H}+\hat{H}^\dagger$ turns out to be much harder to solve and yields quasi-solutions combining features of both previous families. We characterise all solutions using chromaticity 1- and 2-point functions, minimal loop holonomies, geometric area and volume observables and show that the two families can be interpreted as, on the one hand, a family of states close to the Ashtekar-Lewandowski vacuum and the Dittrich-Geiller vacuum with some numerical noise on the other hand. We also present some results that link solutions of the truncated theory to solutions of the continuum theory.

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Hanno Sahlmann, Waleed Sherif. 2026-04-15. Finding and characterising physical states of Euclidean Abelianized loop quantum gravity using neural quantum states. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14067

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