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\begin{equation*}H=\frac{1}{4}\sum_{n=1}^{N-1}\sqrt{n(N-n)}\left(\sigma_x^n\sigma_x^{n+1}+\sigma_y^n\sigma_y^{n+1}\right)\end{equation*}
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