Example of smallest nonzero eigenvalue of Laplace-Beltrami operator having multiplicity 1.

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I would very much appreciate a simple example of a compact Riemannian manifold for which the eigenspace corresponding to the smallest nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator is one-dimensional.

The context is: I am writing a paper about a special case of this inequality. The inequality doesn't hold whenever the condition I am asking about holds, and so I would like to include a section about how the general case fails.