Boundary-dependent topological degeneracy in an Ising chain

arXiv:2605.09510 · cond-mat.str-el · Submitted 2026-05-10 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-10

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gauge Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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