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7 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Topological Devil's staircase in a constrained kagome Ising antiferromagnet

Afonso Rufino, Samuel Nyckees, Jeanne Colbois +1

We show that the constrained Ising model on the kagome lattice with infinite first and third neighbor couplings undergoes an infinite series of thermal first-order transitions at w…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Approaching Kasteleyn transition in frustrated quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets

Katarina Karlova, Afonso Rufino, Taras Verkholyak +5

We show that the Kasteleyn transition, the abrupt proliferation of infinite strings of defects in classical dimer and related models, can also be relevant for frustrated 2d quantum…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Tensor-network study of the ground state of maple-leaf Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Samuel Nyckees, Pratyay Ghosh, Frédéric Mila

We study the quantum phase diagram of the spin- nearest-neighbor Heisenberg model on the maple-leaf lattice using infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS) combined wit…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Simplex Crystal Ground State and Magnetization Plateaus in the Spin- Heisenberg Model on the Ruby Lattice

Pratyay Ghosh, Frédéric Mila

We investigate the spin- Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the ruby lattice with uniform first- and second-neighbor interactions, which forms a two-dimensional network of corner-s…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Observation of Unprecedented Fractional Magnetization Plateaus in a New Shastry-Sutherland Ising Compound

Lalit Yadav, Afonso Rufino, Rabindranath Bag +10

Geometrically frustrated magnetic systems, such as those based on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice (SSL), offer a rich playground for exploring unconventional magnetic states. The de…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Symmetry breaking and competing valence bond states in the star lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Pratyay Ghosh, Jan Koziol, Samuel Nyckees +2

We investigate the ground state phase diagram of the spin- antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the star lattice using infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS) and hi…