We study a quench protocol where the ground state of a free many-particle bosonic theory in one dimension is let unitarily evolve in time under the integrable Lieb-Liniger Hamiltonian of δ-interacting repulsive bosons. By using a recently proposed variational method, we here obtain the exact nonthermal steady state of the system in the thermodynamic limit and discuss some of its main physical properties. Besides being a rare case of a thermodynamically exact solution to a truly interacting quench situation, this interestingly represents an example where a standard implementation of the generalized Gibbs ensemble fails.
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