Abstract
An even-site block renormalization-group method is applied to the spin-1 and spin-(3/2 anisotropic or alternating Heisenberg antiferromagnets. In the spin-1 case it shows an energy gap Δ ≃0.368 166 and ground-state energy E0/NJ≃1.449 724, which are in good agreement with the recent Monte Carlo results. In the spin-(3/2 case it shows an energy excitation behavior similar to that in the spin-(1/2 case. Therefore, our study tends to support Haldane’s conjecture. In addition, a possible novel property of the spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet has been predicted.