Finite-temperature formation of magnetic plateaus and simplex liquid states on the frustrated ruby lattice

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07609v1
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 15:11:54 GMT
• Title: Finite-temperature formation of magnetic plateaus and simplex liquid states on the frustrated ruby lattice
• Abstract summary: We map out the finite temperature phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the ruby lattice.<n>We observe the low temperature formation of stable magnetic plateaus at various magnetic field strengths.
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• Abstract: Geometric frustration in quantum systems can stabilize unconventional phases of matter that avoid traditional magnetic ordering at low temperatures. Here, we observe this phenomenon while mapping out the finite temperature phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the ruby lattice with next-nearest-neighbor interactions. Using an infinite tensor network state (iTNS) optimized and measured with belief propagation (BP) and corrections to BP, we observe the low temperature formation of stable magnetic plateaus at various magnetic field strengths. We find these plateaus host a novel `simplex liquid state' -- a disordered phase involving strongly paired spin simplices that retains non-zero residual entropy due to an exponentially large subspace of crystalline configurations. We accurately quantify the energy gap associated with these states and show that, as the temperature of the system is lowered, it does not go through a phase transition to reach them: the heat capacity remains finite and continuous at all observed temperatures. Our work demonstrates how BP-based tensor network techniques provide a powerful route to understanding frustrated quantum magnets at finite temperature.

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