Reflection of a Lieb–Liniger wave packet from the hard-wall potential

Abstract

Non-equilibrium dynamics of a Lieb–Liniger system in the presence of the hard-wall potential is studied. We demonstrate that a time-dependent wave function, which describes quantum dynamics of a Lieb–Liniger wave packet consisting of N particles, can be found by solving an N-dimensional Fourier transform; this follows from the symmetry properties of the many-body eigenstates in the presence of the hard-wall potential. The presented formalism is employed to numerically calculate reflection of a few-body wave packet from the hard wall for various interaction strengths and incident momenta.