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Competition between the s-wave and p-wave superconductivity phases in a holographic model

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We build a holographic superconductor model with a scalar triplet charged under an SU(2) gauge field in the bulk. In this model, the s-wave and p-wave condensates can be consistently realized. We find that there are totally four phases in this model, namely, the normal phase without any condensate, s-wave phase, p-wave phase and the s + p coexisting phase. By calculating Gibbs free energy, the s + p coexisting phase turns out to be thermodynamically favored once it can appear. The phase diagram with the dimension of the scalar operator and temperature is drawn. The temperature range for the s + p coexisting phase is very narrow, which shows the competition between the s-wave and p-wave orders in the superconductor model.

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  1. Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, China

    Zhang-Yu Nie & Hui Zeng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing, 100190, China

    Zhang-Yu Nie, Rong-Gen Cai & Xin Gao

  3. INPAC, Department of Physics, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhang-Yu Nie

  4. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, München, Germany

    Xin Gao & Hui Zeng

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Nie, ZY., Cai, RG., Gao, X. et al. Competition between the s-wave and p-wave superconductivity phases in a holographic model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 87 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2013)087

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