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Boundary effects and the stability of the low energy spectrum of the AKLT model
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2026-03-01
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In this paper we study the low-lying spectrum of the AKLT model perturbed by small, finite-range potentials and with open boundary conditions imposed at the edges of the chain. Our analysis is based on the local, iterative Lie Schwinger block-diagonalization method which allows us to control small interaction terms localized near the boundary of the chain that are responsible for the possible splitting of the ground-state energy of the AKLT Hamiltonian into energy levels separated by small gaps, for which we provide an explicit formula. This improves earlier results concerning the persistence of the so-called bulk gap in these models, besides illustrating the power of our general methods in a non-trivial application.
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290 (5)