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Exact eigenstates for contact interactions

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that in d>1 dimensions the N-particle kinetic energy operator with periodic boundary conditions has symmetric eigenfunctions which vanish at particle encounters, and give a full description of these functions. In two and three dimensions they represent common eigenstates of bosonic Hamiltonians with any kind of contact interactions, and illustrate a partial `multi-dimensional Bethe Ansatz' or `quantum-KAM theorem'. The lattice analogs of these functions exist for N<=L^[d/2] where L is the linear size of the box, and are common eigenstates of Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians and spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg models.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0109538,
  title  = {Exact eigenstates for contact interactions},
  author = {Andras Suto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0109538},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

23 pages. More references, enlarged introduction, remark 2.9 corrected. To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics