SciPost Physics (Aug 2017)

Mobile impurities in integrable models

  • Andrew S. Campbell, Dimitri M. Gangardt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.3.2.015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
p. 015

Abstract

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We use a mobile impurity or depleton model to study elementary excitations in one-dimensional integrable systems. For Lieb-Liniger and bosonic Yang-Gaudin models we express two phenomenological parameters characterising renormalised inter- actions of mobile impurities with superfluid background: the number of depleted particles, $N$ and the superfluid phase drop $\pi J$ in terms of the corresponding Bethe Ansatz solution and demonstrate, in the leading order, the absence of two-phonon scattering resulting in vanishing rates of inelastic processes such as viscosity experienced by the mobile impurities