Introduction

In the previous chapters correlation functions were represented as determinants of a special form of Fredholm integral operator. First, a differential equation was obtained for the time-independent zero temperature field correlation function for the impenetrable Bose gas (it depends only on one variable—distance). By means of an isomonodromic deformation technique A. Jimbo, T. Miwa, Y. Mori and M. Sato wrote down the ordinary differential equation (of Painlevè type). In the previous chapter differential equations for correlation functions in more general situations (with time, temperature and for finite coupling) were constructed. A.R. Its came up with the idea of applying the matrix Riemann problem for the description of these correlation functions (Fredholm determinants). This permits us to write down partial differential equations (completely integrable) for correlation functions and evaluate the asymptotics of correlation functions. Below we follow this line.

Integrable nonlinear partial differential equations for correlation functions of the one-dimensional nonrelativistic Bose gas with point-like repulsion between gas particles were given in section XIV. So quantum correlation functions can be expressed in terms of the solutions of classical nonlinear integrable evolution systems. These classical systems have been investigated already by means of the classical inverse scattering method. Our approach allows one, in particular, to solve the particularly interesting problem of calculating the asymptotics of correlators at large time and distance; this is done in the next section.

Introduction

The aim of this chapter is to obtain the determinant representation for the equal-time correlation function 〈Ψ†(x)Ψ(0)〉 in the nonrelativistic one-dimensional Bose gas (NS model). To apply the approach of the previous chapters, one has to introduce local fields Ψ†(x), Ψ(0) into the two-site generalized model. This is done in section 1. In section 2, the formula for the matrix elements of the operator Ψ†(x)Ψ(0) in the generalized model are derived. In terms of the auxiliary quantum fields introduced in section 3, this formula is transformed to the vacuum mean value of the determinant with respect to the vacuum in the auxiliary Fock space. The determinant representation for the mean value of the operator Ψ†(x)Ψ(0) with respect to the N-particle Bethe eigenstate is derived in section 4. The derivation is similar to that of the previous chapter. It is also similar to that of section 6 of Chapter IX. The derivation is based on the representation of the determinant of the sum of two matrices in terms of the minors of the individual matrices. The explicit formula is given in the Appendix to Chapter IX. In section 5 expressions for the correlation function in the ground state of the one-dimensional Bose gas (zero and finite temperature) are obtained and the thermodynamic limit is also considered.

Local fields in the generalized model

To consider local quantum fields Ψ†(x)Ψ(0) in the frame of the two-site generalized model, one has to clarify the structure of the monodromy matrices T(1|λ), T(2|λ) (see section XI.1, formulæe (XI.1.6)–(XI.1.12)).

We have explained the theory of exactly solvable models on both the quantum and classical levels. We hope that the reader appreciates the beauty and perfection of the Bethe Ansatz. The theory of completely integrable nonlinear partial differential equations plays an equally important role in the book. It is deeply related to the Bethe Ansatz. We hope that our book can be used for further development of the theory of exactly solvable models (we think that the interested reader can find problems to work out in our book). Our book does not close the theory of the Bethe Ansatz; it opens new possibilities for further development.

We have explained how to construct eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian and how to describe the ground state and its excitations. We have also evaluated dispersion curves and scattering matrices for the excitations. The thermodynamics of exactly solvable models is explained in this book in all the details, including the evaluation of temperature correlation functions (even if they depend on real time). The problem of the evaluation of correlation functions (for Bethe Ansatz solvable models) is solved in our book, using the example of the one-dimensional Bose gas (quantum nonlinear Schrödinger equation). It was done using the ideas of the inverse scattering method (the Lax representation, the Riemann-Hilbert problem, the Gel'fand-Levitan-Marchenko equation, etc.). We would like also to emphasize that all other Bethe Ansatz solvable models are constructed in a similar way.

Introduction

Lattice variants of integrable models, both classical and quantum, are formulated in the present chapter. The nonlinear Schrödinger (NS) equation and the sine-Gordon (SG) model are considered. QISM makes it possible to put continuous models of field theory on a lattice while preserving the property of integrability. In addition, the explicit form of the R-matrix is kept unchanged; this means that the structure of the action-angle variables for the classical models is unchanged. For quantum models, the analogue is the preservation of the S-matrix (see the end of section VII.7). The critical exponents, which characterize the power-law decay of correlators for large distances, are also preserved. For relativistic models of quantum field theory, lattice models may be used to rigorously solve the problem of ultraviolet divergences. The construction of local Hamiltonians for lattice models in quantum field theory is given much attention in this chapter. It is of interest to note that the L-operators of lattice models depend on some additional parameter Δ (which is absent in the R-matrix). This is the lattice spacing. However, the L-operator can be continued in Δ to the whole complex plane. Based on this fact, the most general L-operator may be constructed which is intertwined by a given R-matrix. This solves the problem of enumerating all the integrable models connected with a given R-matrix.

Introduction

In the previous chapter we evaluated the asymptotics of the field correlation function using differential equations. In this chapter we present a completely different approach. Instead of determinant representations we shall write some special series (which emphasize the role of the R-matrix). This series is especially efficient for the current (j(x) = Ψ†(x)Ψ(x)) correlation function. It helps us to evaluate the asymptotics at zero temperature. The asymptotics of temperature correlation functions also can be obtained at any value of coupling constant for the Bose gas. The series for the correlation function

is based on the classification of all exactly solvable models (section VII.6) related to the fixed R-matrix. The series explicitly separates the contribution of the R-matrix and of the arbitrary functions a(λ) and d(λ). The Fourier coefficients of the irreducible part depend only on the R-matrix. Let us emphasize once more that in this chapter we shall consider the penetrable Bose gas (0 < c < ∞).

In section 1 the algebraic foundation of the new approach to correlation functions is given. In section 2 the series representation for the current correlator 〈j(x)j(0)〉 at zero temperature (in the thermodynamic limit) is given. In section 3 temperature correlations (for the penetrable Bose gas, 0 < c < ∞) are constructed. In section 4 explicit formulæe for asymptotics are presented. In section 5 the emptiness formation probability (the probability of absence of particles in some space interval due to thermal fluctuations) is evaluated.

This book is devoted to exact solutions of quantum field theory models (in one space dimension plus one time dimension). We also study two-dimensional models of two-dimensional models of classical statistical physics, which are naturally related to these problems. Complete descriptions of the solvable model are given by the Bethe Ansatz which was discovered by H. Bethe in 1931 while studying the Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The Bethe Ansatz has been very useful for the solution of various problems.

Some of the Bethe Ansatz solvable models have direct physical application. A famous problem solved by the Bethe Ansatz is the Kondo problem. Another model is the Hubbard model which is related to high temperature superconductivity. An important application of the Bethe Ansatz is in nonlinear optics where cooperative spontaneous emission of radiation can be described by an exactly solvable quantum model. The Bethe Ansatz is very useful in modern theoretical physics. Correlation functions provide us with dynamical information about the model. They are described in detail in this book.

Bethe Ansatz solvable models are not free; they generalize free models of quantum field theory in the following sense. Many-body dynamics of free models can be reduced to one-body dynamics. With the Bethe Ansatz, many-body dynamics can be reduced to two-body dynamics. The many-particle scattering matrix is equal to the product of two-particle ones.

The algebraic Bethe Ansatz is a powerful method for the calculation of quantum correlation functions. In Part III we shall start this calculation. We shall arrive at an extremely important conclusion: quantum correlation functions can be represented as determinants of certain matrices. The dimension of these matrices is equal to the number of particles in the ground state. In order to better understand the nature of this matrix, one should look once more through section 6 of Chapter VI and section 10 of Chapter VII, where the determinant representation of the partition function for the six-vertex model with a special type of boundary conditions (domain wall) was obtained. Starting from determinant formulæe (VII.10.1) and (VII.10.2) and using also the formula for the determinant of the sum of two matrices (in the Appendix to Chapter IX), one can reproduce all the determinant formulæe in Part III. In the thermodynamic limit, the correlation functions will be represented as determinants of a Predholm integral operator. In Part IV, we shall explain how to use this determinant representation to write down the differential equation for a quantum correlation function. In Part IV we shall also discover that the differential equation for a quantum correlation function is closely related to the initial classical nonlinear differential equation, which was quantized (in our example this is the nonlinear Schrödinger equation). The quantum correlation functions play the role of the τ functions of a classical differential equation.

The quantum correlation functions for different exactly solvable (completely integrable) models are all constructed in a similar way. In Part IV our main example will be the nonlinear Schrödinger (NS) equation. We shall also comment on the other models: the Heisenberg antiferromagnet, the Hubbard model and so on.

We shall discuss different approaches to quantum correlation functions. Our main approach leads to differential equations for quantum correlation functions. These are classical nonlinear differential equations; they are completely integrable and closely related to the original classical differential equation that was quantized (the NS equation in our case).

In the first stage of calculation of correlation functions we represent them as a determinant of some Predholm integral operator (here we shall use the results of Part III). The correct language for the description of quantum correlation functions is the language of τ functions, which was developed in. This helps us to relate the differential equations for quantum correlation functions with the hierarchy of the original classical differential equation that was quantized (the NS equation in our example). In this way we solve the most difficult problem; that of the evaluation of time-and temperature-dependent correlation functions.

This approach can be applied not only to correlation functions for the NS equation, but also to the sine-Gordon model, to non-relativistic fermions, to the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic with special anisotropy and to other models.

Introduction

The one-dimensional Bose gas with point-like interaction of the particles (the quantum variant of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation) is one of the main and most important models which can be Solved by means of the Bethe Ansatz. This model has been thoroughly investigated (and. We shall start with the construction of eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian in a finite volume. Quantities interesting from the physical point of view (in the thermodynamic limit at zero temperature) are considered; the thermodynamics at finite temperatures is investigated in detail as well. A number of essential ideas which will be applied to other models are introduced.

The construction of eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian is explained in section 1. Their explicit form and, in particular, the two-particle reducibility, are common features of the models solvable by means of the Bethe Ansatz method. Periodic boundary conditions are imposed on the wave function in section 2; the Bethe equations for the particle' momenta are introduced and analyzed. Taken in the logarithmic form, these equations realize the extremum condition of a certain functional, the corresponding action being called the Yang-Yang action. The transition to the thermodynamic limit is considered in section 3. In that same section the ground state of the gas is constructed. The density of the particle distribution in momentum space and the energy of the ground state are calculated. The method of the transition to the thermodynamic limit described in this section is rather general and may be applied to any model solvable by means of the Bethe Ansatz. In section 4, excitations above the ground state are constructed and their main characteristics (energy, momentum and scattering matrix) are determined by means of the dressing equations. The ground state of the model is the Dirac sea (also called the Fermi sphere).

Introduction

The natural language for the description of correlation functions in exactly solvable models is the language of differential equations. The determinant representation of correlation functions in the previous chapter can be used to obtain these differential equations. An ordinary differential equation (of the Painlevètype) for the equal-time, zero temperature correlation function of the impenetrable Bose gas was obtained in. In that paper (starting from Lenard's formula for the two-point zero temperature equal-time correlator of impenetrable bosons) it was shown that the correlator is described by an ordinary differential equation (reducible to the Painlevè trascendent), and multipoint zero temperature equal-time correlators were also described as solutions of differential equations. The considerations in that paper were based on the spectral isomonodromic deformation method.

Our approach here is different. We begin by considering the logarithm of the determinant of the linear integral operator entering the representation for the correlator as a τ-function for some integrable nonlinear evolutionary system. Then the linear integral equations playing the role of the Gel'fand-Levitan-Marchenko equations for this integrable system are constructed. The differential equations for correlators are derived, in fact, from these integral equations (it is worth mentioning that the idea of obtaining the differential equations from the integral ones can be found in. This approach permits one to include time- and temperature-dependent correlators for impenetrable bosons in the same framework. It is remarkable that space- and time-dependent correlation functions are derived by partial differential equations which almost coincide with the original classical nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the only difference being that complex involution is dropped.

Introduction

The long distance asymptotics of correlation functions in integrable models have attracted long-standing interest. For the gapless one-dimensional systems considered in this book, zero temperature is a critical point. At zero temperature, (T = 0), correlation functions decay as a power of the distance, but for T > 0, correlation functions decay exponentially. The powers of the distance by which correlation functions decay at zero temperature are called the critical exponents and they are the subject of this chapter.

A recent development in the understanding of critical phenomena in (1+1)-dimensional systems is connected with conformal field theory which provides a powerful method for calculating critical exponents. However, many important results in (1+1)-dimensional systems have been obtained from perturbation calculations and renormalization group treatments, and. It should also be noted that the quantum inverse scattering method (QISM) approach to correlation functions confirms the predictions of conformal field theory (CFT), but more importantly QISM techniques show that the critical exponents of integrable models depend only on the underlying R-matrix.

The Luttinger liquid approach is very powerful; it is also close to CFT. This approach is essentially based on the representation of a critical one-dimensional model in terms of a gaussian model. In the framework of this approach, the critical exponent was calculated first for Bethe Ansatz solvable models with a single degree of freedom. One should also mention the bosonization technique.

The quantum inverse scattering method relates the Bethe Ansatz to the theory of classical completely integrable differential equations. These are sometimes called soliton equations. The modern way to solve them is called the classical inverse scattering method. In a sense this is a nonlinear generalization of the Fourier transform.

In this Part the quantum inverse scattering method is expounded. The main statements of the classical inverse scattering method necessary for quantization are given in Chapter V where the Lax representation is introduced. The Hamiltonian structure of integrable models is also discussed along with the infinite number of integrals of motion. The most convenient method of analyzing the Hamiltonian structure relies on the classical r-matrix. Some concrete models will be considered. Chapter VI is devoted in particular to the quantum inverse scattering method. The R-matrix, which is the main object of this method, is introduced. The Yang-Baxter equation for the R-matrix is discussed. The main statements of the method are given and a number of examples are presented. The algebraic formulation of the Bethe Ansatz, one of the main achievements of the quantum inverse scattering method, is presented in Chapter VII. The notion of the determinant of the transition matrix in the quantum case is introduced in this chapter. (This is closely related to the concept of the antipode in quantum groups.)