Bethe-ansatz technique

Bethe-ansatz technique

[′bād·ē ′an‚zats tek‚nēk]

(physics)

A method for the solution of one-dimensional many-body problems that was first applied to one-dimensional magnets and has been generalized to many-body problems with point interactions.

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