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We study the holographic dual of a finite density system with both bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom. There is no evidence for a universal bose-dominated ground state. Instead, depending on the relative conformal weights the preferred groundstate is either pure AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom, a holographic superconductor, an electron star, or a novel mixed state that is best characterized as a hairy electron star.
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Liu, Y., Schalm, K., Sun, YW. et al. Bose-Fermi competition in holographic metals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 64 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)064
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