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Generalized Dynamical Duality of Quantum Particles in One Dimension

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Pith's one-line read The late-time momentum distribution of one-dimensional particles is independent of exchange statistics, and equals the initial quasi-momentum distribution.

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arxiv 2510.25056 v2 pith:SE6SBIMV submitted 2025-10-29 cond-mat.quant-gas quant-ph

Yu Chen , Xiaoling Cui This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.quant-gasquant-ph
keywords dynamicaldualityfermionizationBetheansatzone-dimensionalanyonsmomentumdistributionquasi-momentumscatteringlengthultracoldatomicgases
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This paper proves that in one dimension, identical particles with different exchange statistics—bosons, fermions, and anyons—end up with the same one-particle momentum distribution after a long free expansion from a trap, as long as their short-range interactions share the same scattering length $l$. The asymptotic distribution is not a thermal or interaction-renormalized shape; it is exactly the quasi-momentum distribution of the initial trapped state, the conserved rapidity content of the integrable system. This turns the known phenomenon of dynamical fermionization (hard-core bosons becoming indistinguishable from free fermions in momentum space) into one special case, $l=0$, of a general duality that holds for any coupling and any statistics. The proof works by expanding the initial state in a statistics-independent Bethe-ansatz basis and applying stationary phase to the long-time wavefunction. A sympathetic reader should care because it identifies a direct observable—the late-time momentum distribution—that can certify the generalized equilibrium duality in real ultracold-gas experiments.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the Bethe-ansatz (BA) basis for free 1D particles with a contact interaction, Eq. (6): each eigenstate is a sum over spatial orderings with a statistics phase $e^{i\alpha\Lambda/2}$, and the same function $\phi_{\vec k}$ in every ordering. The BA equation (9), $e^{ik_jL}=\prod_{j\ne l}(k_j-k_l-2i/l)/(k_j-k_l+2i/l)$, is universal in $\alpha$, so the quasi-momenta and energies are shared by bosons, fermions, and anyons at fixed $l$. The initial trapped state is expanded in this basis (Eq. 10), and because initial state and basis have the same ordering-sector phase structure, the coefficients $c(\vec k)$ are $\alpha$-independent. The long-time limit is taken by stationary phase (Eq. 13), which selects $k_{Pj}=mx_{Qj}/t$ and converts the asymptotic real-space wavefunction into a momentum-space wavefunction with the same sector structure. That structure is what makes the traced one-body distribution collapse to $n_q(k,t=0)$.

What would settle it

Take two or three particles in a harmonic trap at fixed $l=-l_T$, prepare the same trapped ground state as bosons ($\alpha=0$) and as anyons ($\alpha=\pi/2$), and measure the momentum distribution after an expansion time $t\sim 10/\omega$. If the two late-time curves differ by more than the numerical convergence error, or if either fails to match the quasi-momentum distribution $n_q(k)$ computed from Eq. (9), the generalized dynamical duality is false. A sharper test is to check completeness directly: expand the trapped ground state in the Bethe-ansatz basis (Eq. 6) with a large cutoff and verify that the squared overlaps sum to 1 independently of $\alpha$; any residual $\alpha$-dependence in the overlap sum would break Eq. (16).

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Core claim

The central claim is Eq. (16): for $N$ identical 1D particles with any statistics $\alpha$ and common negative scattering length $l$, the one-body momentum distribution after a long free expansion satisfies $n^{(\alpha)}(k,t\to\infty)=n_q(k,t=0)$, where $n_q$ is the quasi-momentum distribution of the initial state, built from overlaps $|c(k,k_2,\dots,k_N)|^2$ with free-space Bethe-ansatz states labeled by quasi-momenta. Because the contact boundary condition determines the same real-space wavefunction in each ordering sector for all $\alpha$, and because the Bethe-ansatz equation is the same for all $\alpha$, the expansion coefficients $c(\vec k)$ do not depend on statistics. At long times, stationary phase maps each spatial sector onto a momentum sector with $\vec{x}=\vec{k}t/m$, so the momentum-space wavefunction inherits the same ordering structure as the real-space one; tracing out all but one momentum then leaves only the $\alpha$-independent coefficients. The result generalizes dynamical fermionization from hard-core bosons at $l=0$ to arbitrary coupling and to fractional statistics.

Load-bearing premise

The derivation assumes that the free-space Bethe-ansatz states with the universal Bethe-ansatz equation form a complete basis for every statistics $\alpha$ at a fixed scattering length $l$; that completeness is inherited from integrability and from the equilibrium duality, but it is not re-proved in this paper.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • After a long expansion, the one-body momentum distribution of any 1D gas with a fixed scattering length becomes a direct readout of the initial state's quasi-momentum (rapidity) content, not of its initial momentum content.
  • Dynamical fermionization is the $l\to0$ limit of this duality, so the previously separate bosonic and anyonic fermionization results are unified in one derivation.
  • In quasi-1D ultracold gases with tunable s- and p-wave interactions, releasing trapped bosons, fermions, and anyons with matched scattering length should produce identical asymptotic $n(k)$ curves; the paper's small-cluster numerics confirm this for two and three particles.
  • A finite p-wave effective range modifies the Bethe-ansatz equation and the initial quasi-momentum distribution, but leaves the identity $n(k,t\to\infty)=n_q(k,t=0)$ intact, so the duality remains observable under realistic experimental parameters.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The ordering-sector phase argument should carry over to lattice anyons realized in cold atoms, where a lattice counterpart of dynamical fermionization is already known; the paper mentions this as future work, but the mechanism suggests a direct construction.
  • By analogy with the known extensions of dynamical fermionization to spinor gases and finite temperature, the generalized duality likely holds for spin mixtures and at finite temperature; this is a conjecture beyond the present proof.
  • A quantitative prediction worth testing is that the approach to the asymptotic curve is governed by the spacing of the quasi-momenta: deeper traps or stronger interactions, which change that spacing, should speed up or slow down convergence to $n_q(k)$.
  • The same stationary-phase mechanism might extend the duality to any 1D integrable gas whose eigenstates factor into ordering sectors, including spin chains after an interaction quench, not just particles with contact interactions.
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Summary. The paper claims a generalized dynamical duality for 1D identical particles with arbitrary statistics α (bosons, fermions, anyons) and a common negative scattering length l. It proves that after a sudden release from a trap, the long-time one-body momentum distribution is independent of α and equals the quasi-momentum distribution of the initial trapped state: n^(α)(k,t→∞)=n_q(k,t=0). The proof expands the initial state in free-space Bethe ansatz states, shows that the expansion coefficients are α-independent because the initial state and the basis share the same ordering-phase structure, and then applies stationary-phase approximation to obtain the asymptotic momentum distribution. Exact numerics for N=2 and N=3 particles at l=-l_T support the prediction, and the effect of a finite p-wave effective range is discussed.

Significance. If the result holds, it substantially extends the known phenomenon of dynamical fermionization to arbitrary statistics and arbitrary (negative) scattering length, unifying equilibrium and dynamical dualities in 1D. The derivation is transparent and parameter-free, and the prediction is falsifiable in quasi-1D ultracold gases with tunable s- and p-wave interactions. The manuscript includes exact small-cluster numerical verification and a discussion of experimental feasibility, which strengthens the claim.

minor comments (5)
  1. [Main text, Eq. (10)] The expansion of the initial state in the free-space Bethe ansatz basis Φ_k^(α) presupposes that these states form a complete basis for arbitrary α at fixed l<0. This is the only non-elementary input of the proof and is not stated explicitly. Please add a sentence (or a citation, e.g., to Ref. [17] together with the unitary phase mapping in Eq. (3)) justifying completeness; for α=0 this is the standard Lieb-Liniger completeness, and the phase mapping extends it to other α.
  2. [Main text, Eqs. (14) and (15)] The stationary-phase expressions omit overall normalization and phase prefactors that depend on t. Since the final momentum distribution is obtained from |Ψ|^2, the omission does not affect the result, but the paper should state explicitly that Eqs. (14) and (15) hold up to an overall t-dependent normalization factor.
  3. [Abstract] There is a typo in the abstract: "uniqued given" should be "uniquely given". The same typo appears in the closing paragraph of the main text.
  4. [Figure 1 caption] The caption would be clearer if it explicitly stated that the gray curve is the same for all α (as predicted by Eq. (16)) and that the colored momentum-distribution curves at t=10 overlap with it, rather than relying on visual inspection.
  5. [Main text, finite p-wave effective range paragraph] The statement "Eqs.(10-16) remain unchanged" for finite r_p could be misunderstood: the Bethe ansatz states themselves are modified by the r_p-dependent equation (S15). What remains unchanged is the structure of the stationary-phase argument leading from the expansion to the asymptotic momentum distribution. Please clarify this wording.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: Eq. (16) is derived by a self-contained stationary-phase calculation; the only self-citation is not load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is Eq. (16), n^(α)(k,t→∞) = n_q(k,t=0), with n_q defined through the Bethe-ansatz expansion coefficients c(k). The coefficient c(k) is derived in Eq. (11) by an explicit overlap calculation: because both the trapped state (3) and the BA basis (6) carry the same sector-dependent phase e^{iα/2Λ}, the phases cancel in the product Ψ^*Φ, making c independent of α. This is a mathematical identity shown in the text, not an imported uniqueness claim. The subsequent reduction of the long-time wavefunction to the same c(k) via the stationary-phase approximation (Eqs. 12–15) is the standard dynamical-fermionization mechanism and is not a renaming: before the asymptotic limit the momentum distribution does depend on α (Fig. 1, t=0). The only self-citation, Ref. [3], supplies the equilibrium mapping (3); the present paper restates the construction and verifies the exchange symmetry (4), and Ref. [3]'s stated assumptions (same scattering length l, arbitrary statistics α, same potential) do not include the target dynamical result, so the citation is independent support rather than a circular premise. The numerics solve the trapped ground states and the time evolution independently of the final momentum distribution; the gray n_q curves are computed from the initial-state quasi-momenta, not fitted to the evolved n(k). No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, and no equation is equivalent to its input by construction. Therefore the derivation is self-contained and the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no free parameters: the scattering length l and trap parameters are physical inputs. It relies on two domain assumptions from prior work (the generalized equilibrium duality and the completeness of the BA basis) and one standard mathematical approximation (SPA). No new entities are postulated.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Generalized equilibrium duality: for fixed scattering length l, the wavefunctions of 1D particles with different statistics α are identical in each spatial ordering sector (Eq. 3).
    The paper relies on the boson-anyon-fermion mapping of Ref [3] to write the initial state in the form (3) with α-independent ψ(x_Q). This is a prior result, not derived here.
  • domain assumption Completeness of the free-space Bethe ansatz states (Eq. 6) with the universal BA equation (9) for all statistics α and negative l.
    The expansion (10) requires these states to form a basis. This is a standard property for integrable models (Ref [17]) and is assumed to extend to anyons via Refs [3-5].
  • standard math Validity of the stationary phase approximation at t→∞, including for the ordering-dependent phase factors.
    SPA is used to evaluate the quasi-momentum sum (12) and the Fourier transform (15). Its error is not rigorously bounded, but is standard in this context (Ref [19]).

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We prove a generalized dynamical duality for identical particles in one dimension (1D). Namely, 1D systems with arbitrary statistics -- including bosons, fermions and anyons -- approach the same momentum distribution after long-time expansion from a trap, provided they share the same scattering length for short-range interactions. This momentum distribution is uniquely given by the rapidities, or quasi-momenta, of the initial trapped state. Our results can be readily detected in quasi-1D ultracold gases with tunable s- and p-wave interactions.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. (Color online). Momentum distributions of two (upper panel) and three (lower panel) identical particles at different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. (Color online). Quasi-momentum distribution [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

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