A Q-DEFORMED COMPLETELY INTEGRABLE BOSE-GAS MODEL

We construct the Hamiltonian of a new quantum integrable 'q-boson' lattice model in 1 + 1 dimensions which has q-bosons as dynamical variables and solve it for its energy eigenstates and energy eigenvalues under periodic boundary conditions of finite period. This model can be regarded as the q-deformation of the integrable lattice Bose gas (the quantum lattice nonlinear Schrodinger (quantum lattice NLS)) model. In appropriate continuum limits both of these lattice models become the quantum repulsive NLS model (the Bose gas). In the lattice case the distinction between the q-bosons and ordinary bosons leads to significant new features-particularly in the energy spectrum for which the q-boson lattice model has an optical branch and bound state spectra as well as the (one) acoustic branch of the quantum lattice N LS model. It is argued that this sort of distinction is generic for discrete systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom as opposed to continuum field theories like the Bose gas where quantization by quantum group quantization or by canonical quantization leads to the same results. Various properties of the q-bosons are given and used. In particular a q-boson Primakov-Holstein transformation is given which connects the q-boson lattice model with the XXZ models of arbitrary spin.