RT Journal Article T1 Spin chains of Haldane-Shastry type and a generalized central limit theorem A1 Enciso, Alberto A1 Finkel Morgenstern, Federico A1 González López, Artemio AB 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. PB American Physical Society SN 1539-3755 YR 2009 FD 2009-06 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44675 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44675 LA eng NO ©2009 The American Physical Society.This work was supported in part by the MICINN and the UCM-Banco Santander under Grants No. FIS2008-00209 and No. GR58/08-910556. A.E. acknowledges the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science. The authors would also like to thank the referees for several useful remarks. NO MICINN (Spain) NO UCM-Banco Santander DS Docta Complutense RD 21 abr 2025