  The condensate cosmology programme of group field theory has produced several
interesting results. The key idea is in the suggestion that a macroscopic
homogeneous spacetime can be approximated by a dynamical condensate phase of
the underlying microscopic system of an arbitrarily large number of candidate
quanta of geometry. In this work, we extend the standard treatments in two
ways: by using a class of thermal condensates, the coherent thermal states,
which encode statistical fluctuations in quantum geometry; and, by introducing
a suitable class of smearing functions as non-singular, well-behaved
generalisations for relational clock frames in group field theory. In
particular, we investigate an effective relational cosmological dynamics for
homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes, extracted from a class of free group
field theory models, and subsequently investigate aspects of its late and early
times evolution. We find the correct classical limit of Friedmann equations at
late times, with a bounce and accelerated expansion at early times.
Specifically, we find additional correction terms in the evolution equations
corresponding to the statistical contribution of the new thermal condensates in
general; and, a higher upper bound on the number of e-folds, even without
including any interactions.
