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Introduction to Part III

V. E. Korepin, N. M. Bogoliubov, Anatoli G. Izergin

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Abstract

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.

DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511628832.012

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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.

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