The AKLT model on a hexagonal chain is gapped

DOI10.1007/S10955-019-02410-4zbMATH Open1435.82006arXiv1904.01043OpenAlexW3103933004MaRDI QIDQ2283162FDOQ2283162

Authors: Marius Lemm, Anders W. Sandvik, Sibin Yang 

Publication date: 30 December 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1987, Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb, and Tasaki introduced the AKLT spin chain and proved that it has a spectral gap above the ground state. Their concurrent conjecture that the two-dimensional AKLT model on the hexagonal lattice is also gapped remains open. In this paper, we show that the AKLT Hamiltonian restricted to an arbitrarily long chain of hexagons is gapped. The argument is based on explicitly verifying a finite-size criterion which is tailor-made for the system at hand. We also discuss generalizations of the method to the full hexagonal lattice.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01043

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum computationspectral gapAKLT (Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb, Tasaki) modelAKLT conjecturecomputer-assisted evaluationfinite-size criterion for spectral gap existenceground states in antiferromagnetsHaldane conjecturehexagonal quantum spin chainspectral gaps for finite subsystems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Quantum computation (81P68) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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