Exact eigenstates for contact interactions

Abstract

We show that in d>1 dimensions the N-particle kinetic energy operator with periodic boundary conditions has symmetric eigenfunctions which vanish at particle encounters, and give a full description of these functions. In two and three dimensions they represent common eigenstates of bosonic Hamiltonians with any kind of contact interactions, and illustrate a partial `multi-dimensional Bethe Ansatz&#39; or `quantum-KAM theorem&#39;. The lattice analogs of these functions exist for N<=L^[d/2] where L is the linear size of the box, and are common eigenstates of Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonians and spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg models.