Classical helical minimum of the J1-J2 XY chain

ID: classical-helical-minimum-of-the-j1-j2-xy-chain

For classical fixed-length planar spins with energy per site , the substitution makes the problem a quadratic on . A noncollinear minimum exists for and . Its two signs of have opposite chirality and equal energy. This is a classical energy minimum, not a finite-temperature long-range-order theorem for a one-dimensional quantum chain.

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