Semiclassical gravitational collapse of a radially symmetric massless scalar quantum field
Semiclassical gravitational collapse of a radially symmetric massless scalar quantum field
We present a method to study the semiclassical gravitational collapse of a radially symmetric scalar quantum field in a coherent initial state. The formalism utilizes a Fock space basis in the initial metric, is unitary and time reversal invariant up to numerical precision. It maintains exact compatibility of the metric …