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We demonstrate how anyon gap closings provide a way to understand phase transitions into a plethora of previously identified competing phases\u2014including zigzag, stripy, 120\u00b0, and incommensurate spiral phases\u2014and are in agreement with numerical studies not only on the nature of the phases, but also on the specific critical values of\n                    <jats:italic>\u0393<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <jats:alternatives>\n                        <jats:tex-math>$${\\Gamma }^{{\\prime} }$$<\/jats:tex-math>\n                        <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                          <mml:msup>\n                            <mml:mrow>\n                              <mml:mi>\u0393<\/mml:mi>\n                            <\/mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mrow>\n                              <mml:mo>\u2032<\/mml:mo>\n                            <\/mml:mrow>\n                          <\/mml:msup>\n                        <\/mml:math>\n                      <\/jats:alternatives>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    couplings. 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