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Chiral Ground States in a Frustrated Holographic Superconductor

2015/02/28 by Mitsuhiro Nishida, Nishida, Mitsuhiro
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1503.00129

14 pages, 3 figures, v2: references, comments, figures added and improve the analysis of section 3.2

arxiv created 2015/09/01 · arxiv updated 2015/09/02

Abstract

Frustration is an important phenomenon in condensed matter physics because it can introduce a new order parameter such as chirality. Towards understanding a mechanism of the frustration in strongly correlated systems, we study a holographic superconductor model with three scalar fields and an interband Josephson coupling, which is important for the frustration. We analyze free energy of solutions of the model to determine ground states. We find chiral ground states, which have nonzero chirality.

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