Real time dynamics of a semiclassical gravitational collapse of a scalar quantum field

We present a new formalism for numerically treating the semiclassical gravitational collapse of a scalar quantum field in the radially symmetric case. Our formalism is time reversal invariant and the evolution of the scalar fields is unitary. We present some first results in the angular momentum $l=0$ approximation for an initially coherent state of a massless field and briefly discuss future prospects.
Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE2021, 26th-30th, July, 2021, Zoom/Gather@Massachusetts Institute of Technology