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sions at low densities [37] and is widely employed as a trial
wavefunction in quantum Monte Carlo techniques.
Moreover, the Jastrow ansatz provides an exact description
of the ground state for certain interacting many-body systems.
To identify such models, one can assume a Jastrow-form
wavefunction and determine the corresponding parent Hamil-
tonian by solving the time-independent Schr¨
odinger equation.
This approach was pioneered by Calogero [38] and Sutherland
[8,39], leading to the discovery of the well-known family of
one-dimensional integrable Calogero-Sutherland (CS) mod-
els. These models include particles interacting via inverse-
square potentials in unbounded space, as well as inverse-
square sinusoidal interactions under periodic boundary con-
ditions [8,40].
Similarly, the attractive Lieb-Liniger (LL) gas has long
been known to exhibit bright quantum soliton states with a
Jastrow-form wavefunction [41,42]. By now, the complete
family of models describing interacting identical particles
with a Jastrow ground state has been established in any spa-
tial dimension [43–46]. These parent Hamiltonians generally
include both two-body and three-body interactions. While the
latter are absent in the celebrated CS and LL models, renor-
malization group calculations have shown that three-body in-
teractions are irrelevant for long-wavelength, low-temperature
physics [47], further reinforcing the practical utility of the Jas-
trow ansatz in physical applications.
In contrast to its widespread use in equilibrium settings,
the application of the Jastrow ansatz to nonequilibrium sce-
narios remains relatively unexplored. Notably, the dynamics
of the rational Calogero-Sutherland (CS) model—describing
one-dimensional bosons with inverse-square interactions con-
fined in a harmonic trap—are exactly captured by a time-
dependent Jastrow ansatz at all times [48–50]. This model
not only serves as a valuable testbed for studying nonequi-
librium phenomena but also includes hard-core bosons in the
Tonks-Girardeau regime as a limiting case [51–54], making
it highly relevant to ultracold atom experiments [55–57]. As
a result, this model has inspired a wide range of studies on
topics such as nonexponential decay, quantum speed limits,
Loschmidt echoes, and orthogonality catastrophe [58–62]. It
has also played a key role in advancing research in finite-
time quantum thermodynamics [63–67], quantum quenches
[17,68], and quantum control [69–72], among other areas.
While these applications help to illustrate the value of ex-
act solutions in quantum dynamics, they are all characterized
by scale-invariance. This dynamical symmetry is highly re-
strictive and results in self-similar time evolution, meaning
that the spatial probability densities (the absolute square of
the wavefunction in the coordinate representation) at any two
different times are simply related by a rescaling of the coor-
dinate variables. For instance, in one spatial dimension, the
time dependence of a many-body quantum state Ψ(t) satisfies
|Ψ(x1,...,xN,t)|2=|Ψ(x1/b(t),...,xN/b(t),t=0)|2
b(t)N,(1)
where b(t)>0 is the scaling factor. In this case, the complex-
ity of many-body time evolution reduces significantly to deter-
mining the scaling factor, which obeys an ordinary differential
equation known as the Ermakov equation. The latter was first
introduced in the context of the time-dependent harmonic os-
cillator [73,74], and together with its generalizations, it plays
a fundamental role in the study and control of Bose-Einstein
condensates [75–77] and ultracold Fermi gases [78–83].
Beyond the realm of scale-invariant dynamics, results are
scarce, and time-dependent Jastrow ans¨
atze have only recently
been explored in numerical methods. Notably, integrating
the Jastrow ansatz with quantum Monte Carlo algorithms has
been applied to the study of the quench dynamics of the Lieb-
Liniger (LL) model [23].
A natural question arises: can the construction of the par-
ent Hamiltonian used for the stationary Jastrow ansatz be ex-
tended to the time-dependent setting for arbitrary processes?
However, a direct extension of this approach generally leads
to a parent Hamiltonian that is not necessarily Hermitian. The
underlying reason for this non-Hermiticity is that the dynam-
ics implicitly assumed by the time-dependent trial wavefunc-
tion may break unitarity. It is worth noting that recent progress
in finding parent Hamiltonians [84] for time-dependent quan-
tum states has primarily focused on discrete spin systems,
which are not directly applicable to the continuous-variable
many-body systems considered here.
In this work, we extend the program of constructing par-
ent Hamiltonians for Jastrow wavefunctions to the time-
dependent case in one-dimensional quantum many-body sys-
tems in the continuum, i.e., with continuous variables. We
derive consistency conditions for the one-body and two-body
pair functions that define the Jastrow ansatz and apply them to
systems embedded in a harmonic trap. These consistency con-
ditions lead to the parent Hamiltonian of the complex-valued
time-dependent Jastrow ansatz (TDJA), where the amplitude
of the two-body trial wavefunction retains a functional form
similar to that of the ground state of the Calogero-Sutherland
(CS), Hyperbolic, and attractive Lieb-Liniger models.
Interestingly, while the Ermakov equation—ubiquitous in
the study of scale-invariant dynamics with specific interac-
tions [58,77,78]— emerges in our approach, the dynamics
described by the complex-valued TDJA are not necessarily
scale-invariant. Applying our framework to the aforemen-
tioned trial wavefunctions leads to generalizations of the CS,
Hyperbolic, and LL models with additional interactions. In
these systems, we establish the relations between the initial
density distribution and its time evolution, as well as the long-
time momentum distribution.
As a further application of our results, we demonstrate
that the parent Hamiltonian of the complex-valued TDJA can
be utilized for the engineering of Shortcuts to Adiabaticity
(STA) [85,86], which enable the fast preparation of a tar-
get state from a given initial eigenstate without requiring the
long timescales necessary for traditional adiabatic evolution.
More specifically, we show that the parent Hamiltonian of the
complex-valued TDJA can be interpreted as an implementa-
tion of the adiabatic evolution of the real-valued TDJA. Fur-
thermore, we illustrate how our findings can be applied to
study the exact dynamics following a quantum quench of the
interparticle interactions. In particular, we demonstrate this
in the context of the long-range Calogero-Sutherland models