arXiv:1905.03515 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Time dynamics of Bethe ansatz solvable models
Igor Ermakov, Tim Byrnes
Abstract
We develop a method for finding the time evolution of exactly solvable models by Bethe ansatz, with Hilbert space linear in excitation number. The dynamical Bethe wave function takes the same form as the stationary Bethe wave function, except for time-varying Bethe parameters and a complex phase prefactor. From this, we derive a set of first-order nonlinear coupled differential equations for the Bethe parameters, called the dynamical Bethe equations. We find that this gives the exact solution to particular types of exactly solvable models, including the Bose-Hubbard dimer. The developed formalism allows us to demonstrate analytically that time dynamics of the detuning-quenched Bose-Hubbard dimer occurs in the subspace which dimensionality is less than that of the physical Hilbert space. This allows for calculation of the time dynamics within a reduced problem dimensionality.