Put . The uniform potential is
If both masses are positive, . If , only condenses, with ; symmetrically, only condenses when . The positive coordinate axes are continuous-transition lines. On , every pair with
is a minimum; crossing this diagonal exchanges the two condensates, so it is a coexistence line ending at the origin.
Away from the diagonal the symmetry is . It is unbroken in the normal phase. In either one-condensate phase one factor is broken and the other remains, giving one Goldstone boson. On the diagonal the symmetry is enhanced to . For positive equal mass it is unbroken; for negative equal mass it breaks as and gives three Goldstone bosons. At the origin is unbroken although both quadratic modes are critical.
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Let be the eigenvalues of the positive semidefinite matrix . The potential is
For and , each summand is minimized at
so . A symmetry transformation preserves the representative precisely when , giving
The number of broken generators is , so the Goldstone theorem predicts modes, each a Goldstone boson.
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