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  "abstract": "Recent work [Kundu, Damle, Phys. Rev. X 15, 011018 (2025)] has demonstrated that a class of $S=1$ kagome lattice antiferromagnets with competing anisotropies can exhibit unusual low-temperature behavior that is best described in terms of the statistical mechanics of an interesting interpolation between the fully-packed dimer model and the fully-packed loop model on the bipartite honeycomb lattice. On this and other bipartite lattices in two and three dimension, such fully-packed dimer-loop models generically have two distinct power-law correlated Coulomb phases, both of which admit a low-energy description in terms of a fluctuating divergence-free polarization vector field [Phys. Rev. X 15, 011018 (2025); arXiv:2510.11607]. The transition between these phases corresponds to a confinement transition for the $Z_2$ part of the corresponding $U(1)$ flux [Phys. Rev. X 15, 011018 (2025); arXiv:2510.11607]. Here we demonstrate that a variant of such a topological confinement transition can also exist in dimer-loop models on non-bipartite lattices such as the kagome and triangular lattices although the low-energy description does not feature any conserved $U(1)$ flux. In these non-bipartite dimer-loop models, both phases are short-range correlated liquids, and the topological distinction between them is in terms of a $Z_2$-valued winding number instead of the flux of a divergence-free polarization field. In spite of this key difference, this transition appears to be in the same Ising universality class as the analogous transition of the bipartite dimer-loop models. These kagome and triangular lattice dimer-loop models correspond respectively to the low-energy limit of a class of $S=1$ antiferromagnets with competing anisotropies on the ruby lattice comprising a corner-sharing arrangement of fully-frustrated squares and a lattice of corner-sharing fully-frustrated hexagons.",
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  "arxiv": "2610.16676",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Jay Pandey"
    },
    {
      "name": "Souvik Kundu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kedar Damle"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dx6dymgpkarc8.bib",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.16676",
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  "published": "2026-10-12",
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  "title": "Confinement-deconfinement transitions in the dimer-loop models on two-dimensional non-bipartite lattices",
  "title_text": "Confinement-deconfinement transitions in the dimer-loop models on two-dimensional non-bipartite lattices",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dx6dymgpkarc8",
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