Asymmetric Bethe Ansatz

• Published in: SciPost physics core Vol. 7; no. 3; p. 062
• Main Authors: Jackson, Steven Glenn, Perrin, Hélène, Astrakharchik, Grigori E., Olshanii, Maxim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: SciPost 12.09.2024
• ISSN: 2666-9366; 2666-9366
• DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.7.3.062

The recently proposed exact quantum solution for two \delta δ -function-interacting particles with a mass-ratio 3\!:\!1 3 : 1 in a hard-wall box [Y. Liu, F. Qi, Y. Zhang and S. Chen, iScience 22, 181 (2019)] violates the conventional necessary condition for a Bethe Ansatz integrability, the condition being that the system must be reducible to a superposition of semi-transparent mirrors that is invariant under all the reflections it generates. In this article, we found a way to relax this condition: some of the semi-transparent mirrors of a known self-invariant mirror superposition can be replaced by the perfectly reflecting ones, thus breaking the self-invariance. The proposed name for the method is asymmetric Bethe Ansatz (asymmetric BA). As a worked example, we study in detail the bound states of the nominally non-integrable system comprised of a bosonic dimer in a \delta δ -well. Finally, we show that the exact solution of the Liu-Qi-Zhang-Chen problem is a particular instance of the the asymmetric BA.