Generalised $T\bar{T}$-deformations of classical free particles

Abstract

Deformations of many-body Hamiltonians by certain products of conserved currents, referred to as $T\bar{T}$-deformations, are known to preserve integrability. Generalised $T\bar{T}$-deformations, based on the complete space of pseudolocal currents, were suggested [B. Doyon, J, Durnin, T. Yoshimura, Scipost Physics 13, 072 (2022)] to give rise to integrable systems with arbitrary two-body scattering shifts, going beyond those from known models or standard CDD factors. However, locality properties were not clear. We construct explicit generalised $T\bar{T}$-deformations of the system of classical free particles. We show rigorously that they are Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems with finite-range interactions. We show elastic, factorised scattering, with a two-particle scattering shift that can be any continuously differentiable non-negative even function of momentum differences, fixed by the $T\bar{T}$-deformation function. We show that the scattering map (or wave operator) has a finite-range property allowing us to trace carriers of asymptotic momenta even at finite times - an important characteristics of many-body integrability. We evaluate the free energy and prove the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz with Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, including with space-varying potentials and in finite and infinite volumes. We give equations for the particles' trajectories where time appears explicitly, generalising the contraction map of hard rod systems: the effect of generalised $T\bar{T}$-deformations is to modify the local metric perceived by each particle, adding extra space in a way that depends on their neighbours. The systems generalise the gas of interacting Bethe ansatz wave packets recently introduced in the Lieb-Liniger model. They form a new class of models that, we believe, most clearly make manifest the structures of many-body integrability.