Spin parity effects in monoaxial chiral ferromagnetic chain

TL;DR

This paper investigates a quantum spin parity effect in monoaxial chiral ferromagnetic chains, revealing how physical properties sharply depend on whether the spin quantum number is half-odd integral or integral.

Contribution

It provides a fully quantum mechanical explanation of the spin parity effect in monoaxial chiral ferromagnetic chains, highlighting its dependence on the spin quantum number.

Findings

Identification of a sharp dependence of physical properties on spin quantum number parity

Quantum mechanical account of the spin parity effect in chiral ferromagnetic chains

Potential implications for understanding quantum spin systems

Abstract

We present a fully quantum mechanical account of a novel {\it spin parity effect} -- physics which depend sharply on whether the spin quantum number $S$ is half-odd integral or integral, which we find to be present in models of monoaxial chiral ferromagnetic spin chains.