We use the recently developed tensor network algorithm based on infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS) to study the phase diagram of frustrated antiferromagnetic
J1-
J2 Heisenberg model on a checkerboard lattice. The simulation indicates a N\'eel ordered phase when
J2<0.88J1, a plaquette valence bond solid state when
0.88<J2/J1<1.11, and a stripe phase when
J2>1.11J1, with two first-order transitions across the phase boundaries. The calculation shows that the cross dimer state proposed before is unlikely to be the ground state of the model, although such a state indeed arises as a metastable state in some parameter region.
We investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the frustrated transverse-field Ising (TFI) model on the checkerboard lattice (CL), which consists of N\'eel, collinear, quantum paramagnet, and plaquette-valence bond solid (-VBS) phases. We implement a numerical simulation that is based on the recently developed unconstrained tree tensor network ansatz, which systematically improves the accuracy over the conventional methods as it exploits the internal gauge selections. At the highly frustrated region
(J2=J1), we observe a second-order phase transition from the plaquette-VBS state to the paramagnet phase at the critical magnetic-field ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{c}=0.28$ with the associated critical exponents $\ensuremath{\nu}=1$ and $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\simeq}0.4$, which are obtained within the finite-size scaling analysis on different lattice sizes $N=4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4,6\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}6,8\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}8$. The stability of the plaquette-VBS phase at low magnetic fields is examined by a spin-spin correlation function, which verifies the presence of plaquette-VBS at
J2=J1 and rules out the existence of a N\'eel phase. In addition, our numerical results suggest that the transition from the N\'eel (for
J2<J1) to the plaquette-VBS phase is a deconfined phase transition. Moreover, we introduce a mapping, which renders the low-energy effective theory of the TFI on the CL to be the same model on the ${J}_{1}\ensuremath{-}{J}_{2}$ square lattice (SL). We show that the plaquette-VBS phase of the highly frustrated point
J2=J1 on the CL is mapped to the emergent string-VBS phase on the SL at
J2=0.5J1.