%0 Journal Article %A Enciso, Alberto %A Finkel Morgenstern, Federico %A González López, Artemio %T Spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type and a generalized central limit theorem %D 2009 %@ 1539-3755 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44675 %X We show that the density of energy levels of a wide class of finite-dimensional quantum systems tends to a Gaussian distribution as the number of degrees of freedom increases. Our result is based on a variant of the central limit theorem which is especially suited to models whose partition function is explicitly known. In particular, we provide a theoretical explanation of the fact that the level density of several spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type is asymptotically Gaussian when the number of sites tends to infinity. %~