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2026

11. Topological Devil's staircase in a constrained kagome Ising antiferromagnet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 086701 (2026) | ​​arXiv:2505.05889 | A. Rufino, S. Nyckees, J. Colbois and F. Mila 

2025

[Preprint] Extreme statistics as a probe of the superfluid to Bose-glass Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition arXiv:2512.09029 | J. Colbois, N. Chepiga, S. Adam, G. Lemarié, N. Laflorencie


[Preprint] Long-range resonances in quasiperiodic many-body localization 
​​arXiv:2510.24704 | A. Padhan, J. Colbois, F. Alet, N. Laflorencie

10. Cat states carrying long-range correlations in the many-body localized phase 
Phys. Rev. B (2025) | Editor's suggestion | arXiv:2504.10566 | N. Laflorencie, J. Colbois & F. Alet
Talk by Nicolas Laflorencie partially covering this topic | Visual abstract


2024

9. Statistics of systemwide correlations in the random-field XXZ chain
​​PhysRevB.110.214210 (2024) | arxiv:2410.10325 | J. Colbois, F. Alet & N. Laflorencie
 Talk by Nicolas Laflorencie | Visual abstract

8. Interaction-driven instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain 
PhysRevLett.133.116502 (2024) | arXiv:2403.09608 | J. Colbois, F. Alet & N. Laflorencie
​​Talk by Fabien Alet | Visual abstract


2023

7. Critical line of the triangular Ising antiferromagnet in a field from a C3-symmetric corner transfer matrix algorithm
PhysRevE.108.064132 (2023) |arXiv:2306.09046 | S. Nyckees, A. Rufino, F. Mila & J. Colbois
Visual abstract

6. Breaking the chains: extreme value statistics and localization in random spin chains
PhysRevB.108.144206 (2023) | arXiv:2305.10574 | J. Colbois & N. Laflorencie
Visual abstract


2022

PhD Thesis: Tensor network investigation of frustrated Ising models 
EPFL Thesis 9290 (2022) | J. Colbois

5. Partial lifting of degeneracy in the J1-J2-J3 Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice 
PhysRevB.106.174403 ​| arXiv:2206.11788 | J. Colbois, B. Vanhecke, L. Vanderstraeten, A. Smerald,  F. Verstraete and F. Mila 


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2021

4. Artificial out-of-plane Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with very small farther-neighbor couplings
PhysRevB.104.024418 (2021) | arXiv.2104.09927  | J. Colbois, K. Hofhuis, Z. Luo, X. Wang, A. Hrabec, L. J. Heyderman, and F. Mila

3. Identifying the Huse-Fisher universality class of the three-state chiral Potts model 
Nuclear Physics B 965, 115365 (2021) | arXiv:2008.08408 | S. Nyckees, J. Colbois, and F. Mila 

2. Solving frustrated Ising models using tensor networks | B. Vanhecke, J. Colbois, L. Vanderstraeten, F. Verstraete, and F. Mila | PhysRevResearch.3.013041 (2021) | arXiv:2006.14341

1. Probing the topology of the quantum analog of a classical skyrmion 
PhysRevB.103.L060404 (2021) | arXiv.2004.13526 | O. Sotnikov, V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila, M. Katsnelson, and E. Stepanov