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The periodic spin-one Haldane gap

OpenAI

Published Oct 6, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We prove a uniform positive spectral gap for the pure antiferromagnetic spin-one Heisenberg chain on even periodic rings, establishing the positive even-periodic formulation of the spin-one Haldane conjecture.
DOI
10.83295/yyxz-748j

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