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Competition/enhancement of two probe order parameters in the unbalanced holographic superconductor

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We introduce and study a simple unbalanced holographic superconductor model with two scalar order parameters. The attention is focused on the possibility of coexisting orderings corresponding to the concomitant condensation of two scalar operators. Through a probe analysis we show that an attractive or repulsive direct interaction between the two bulk scalars leads respectively to competition and enhancement of the associated condensates. The system at hand is a toy model for studying generic multiple ordering in a strongly coupled context and some comments are given about its applicability to the ferromagnetic unconventional superconductors.

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Musso, D. Competition/enhancement of two probe order parameters in the unbalanced holographic superconductor. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 83 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2013)083

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