Date Apr 23, 2019, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm Location Jadwin 343 Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Amanda Young Affiliation University of Arizona, Tucson Details Event Description The one-dimensional AKLT spin chain is the prototypical example of a frustration-free quantum spin system with a spectral gap above its ground state. Affleck, Kennedy, Lieb, and Tasaki conjectured that the two-dimensional version of their model on the hexagonal lattice also exhibits a spectral gap. In this talk, we introduce a family of variants of the hexagonal AKLT model, defined by decorating each edge of the lattice with an AKLT chain of length n, and prove that these decorated models are gapped for all n ≥ 3.