We classify nonconstant entire local minimizers of the standard Ginzburg-Landau functional for maps in $H^{1}_{loc}(R^3;R^3)$ satisfying a natural energy bound. Up to translations and rotations, such solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau system are given by an explicit solution equivariant under the action of the orthogonal group.
We prove that a local minimizer of the Ginzburg-Landau energy in ${\mathbb R}^3$ satisfying the condition $\liminf_{R\to\infty}E(u;B_R)/RlnR < 2π$ must be constant. The main tool is a new sharp eta-ellipticity result for minimizers in dimension three that might be of independent interest.
We consider the minimization of a p-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional over the class of radially symmetric functions of degree one. We prove the existence of a unique minimizer in this class, and show that its modulus is monotone increasing and concave. We also study the asymptotic limit of the minimizers as p \rightarrow \infty. Finally, we prove that the radially symmetric solution is locally stable for $p$ in the interval $(2,4]$.
We analyze Ginzburg--Landau minimization problems in two dimensions with either a strong or weak" tangential boundary condition. These problems are motivated by experiments in liquid crystal with boundary defects. In the singular limit when the correlation length tends to zero, we show that boundary defects will be observed for weak anchoring, while both boundary and interior vortices are possible for strong anchoring in the first order limit.
We consider a two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau problem on an arbitrary domain with a finite number of vanishingly small circular holes. A special choice of scaling relation between the material and geometric parameters (Ginzburg-Landau parameter vs hole radius) is motivated by a recently dsicovered phenomenon of vortex phase separation in superconducting composites. We show that, for each hole, the degrees of minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau problems in the classes of $\mathbb S^1$-valued and $\mathbb C$-valued maps, respectively, are the same. The presence of two parameters that are widely se…
We consider a non-local phase transition equation set in a periodic medium and we construct solutions whose interface stays in a slab of prescribed direction and universal width. The solutions constructed also enjoy a local minimality property with respect to a suitable non-local energy functional.
We perform the classical Ginzburg-Landau analysis originated from the celebrated paper by Bethuel, Brezis, Hélein for optimal boundary data. More precisely, we give optimal regularity assumptions on the boundary curve of planar domains and Dirichlet boundary data on them. When the Dirichlet boundary data is the tangent vector field of the boundary curve, our framework allows us to define a natural energy minimizing frame for simply connected domains enclosing Weil-Petersson curves.
We consider, in a smooth bounded multiply connected domain $\dom\subset\R^2$, the Ginzburg-Landau energy $\d E_\v(u)=1/2\int_\dom{|\n u|^2}+\frac{1}{4\v^2}\int_\dom{(1-|u|^2)^2}$ subject to prescribed degree conditions on each component of $\p\dom$. In general, minimal energy maps do not exist \cite{BeMi1}. When $\dom$ has a single hole, Berlyand and Rybalko \cite{BeRy1} proved that for small $\v$ local minimizers do exist. We extend the result in \cite{BeRy1}: $\d E_\v(u)$ has, in domains $\dom$ with $2,3,...$ holes and for small $\v$, local minimizers. Our approach is very similar to the one…
Suppose that $ω\subsetΩ\subset R^2$. In the annular domain $A=Ω\setminus\barω$ we consider the class $J$ of complex valued maps having degree 1 on $\partial Ω$ and on $\partialω$. It was conjectured by Berlyand and Mironescu ('04), that he existence of minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy $E_κ$ in $J$ is completely determined by the value of the $H^1$-capacity $cap(A)$ of the domain and the value of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter $κ$. The existence of minimizers of $E_κ$ for all $κ$ when $cap(A)\geqπ$ (domain $A$ is ``thin'') and for small $κ$ when $cap(A)<π$ (domain $A$ is ``thick'') was e…
A central focus of Ginzburg-Landau theory is the understanding and characterization of vortex configurations. On a bounded domain $Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2,$ global minimizers, and critical states in general, of the corresponding energy functional have been studied thoroughly in the limit $ε\to 0,$ where $ε>0$ is the inverse of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter. The presence of an applied magnetic field of strength $h_{ex}\gg 1$ makes possible the existence of stable vortex states. A notable open problem is whether there are solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation for any number of vortices below…
Let $\mathcal{D} =Ω\setminus\barω \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a smooth annular type domain. We consider the simplified Ginzburg-Landau energy $E_ε(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathcal{D}} |\nabla u|^2 +\frac{1}{4ε^2}\int_{\mathcal{D}} (1-|u|^2)^2$, where $u: \mathcal{D} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, and look for minimizers of $E_ε$ with prescribed degrees $deg(u,\partial Ω)=p$, $deg(u,\partial ω)=q$ on the boundaries of the domain. For large $ε$ and for balanced degrees, i.e., $p=q$, we obtain existence of minimizers for {\it thin} domain. We also prove non-existence of minimizers of $E_ε$, for large $ε$, in …
Denote by $E_ε$ the Ginzburg-Landau functional in the plane and let $\tilde u_\varepsilon$ be the radial solution to the Euler equation associated to the problem $\min \left\{E_\varepsilon(u,B_1): \>\left. u\right\vert _{\partial B_{1}}=(\cos \vartheta,\sin \vartheta)\right\}$. Let $Ω\subset \R^2$ be a smooth, bounded domain with the same area as $B_1$. Denoted by $$\mathcal{K}=\left\{v=(v_1,v_2) \in H^1(Ω;\R^2):\> \int_Ωv_1\,dx=\int_Ωv_2\,dx=0,\> \int_Ω|v|^2\,dx\ge \int_{B_1} |\tilde u_\varepsilon|^2\,dx\right\},$$ we prove $$ \min_{v \in \mathcal{K}} E_\varepsilon (v,Ω)\le E_\varepsilon (\ti…
We consider here a nonlocal phase transition energy in a periodic medium and we construct solutions whose interfaces lie at a bounded distance from any given hyperplane. These solutions are either periodic or quasiperiodic, depending on the rational dependency of the normal direction to the reference hyperplane. Remarkably, the oscillations of the interfaces with respect to the reference hyperplane are bounded by a universal constant times the periodicity scale of the medium. This geometric property allows us to establish, in the limit, the existence of planelike nonlocal minimal surfaces in a…
We investigate two settings of Ginzburg-Landau posed on a manifold where vortices are unstable. The first is an instability result for critical points with vortices of the Ginzburg-Landau energy posed on a simply connected, compact, closed 2-manifold. The second is a vortex annihilation result for the Ginzburg-Landau heat flow posed on certain surfaces of revolution with boundary.
We consider the stationary Ginzburg-Landau equations in $\R^d$, $d=2,3$. We exhibit a class of applied magnetic fields (including constant fields) such that the Ginzburg-Landau equations do not admit finite energy solutions.
In this paper, we prove a global Carleman estimate for the complex Ginzburg- Landau operator with a cubic nonlinear term in a bounded domain of Rn, n = 2, 3. As applications, we study state observation problems for the Ginzburg-Landau equation.
In this paper, we give the boundeness of solutions to Fractional Laplacian Ginzburg-Landau equation, which extends the Brezis theorem into the nonlinear Fractional Laplacian equation. A related linear fractional Schrodinger equation is also studied.
We study a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the plane, which has the form of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with some dissipation added. We focus on the regime corresponding to well-prepared unitary vortices and derive their asymptotic motion law.
We study uniaxial energy-minimizers within the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals on a three-dimensional spherical droplet subject to homeotropic boundary conditions. We work in the low-temperature regime and show that uniaxial energy-minimizers necessarily have the structure of the well-studied radial-hedgehog solution in the low-temperature limit. An immediate consequence of this result is that Landau-de Gennes energy minimizers cannot be purely uniaxial for sufficiently low temperatures.
We consider a functional related with phase transition models in the Heisenberg group framework. We prove that level sets of local minimizers satisfy some density estimates, that is, they behave as "codimension one" sets. We thus deduce a uniform convergence property of these level sets to interfaces with minimal area. These results are then applied in the construction of (quasi)periodic, plane-like minimizers, i.e., minimizers of our functional whose level sets are contained in a spacial slab of universal size in a prescribed direction. As a limiting case, we obtain the existence of hypersurf…
We study the inviscid limit for the Cauchy problem of derivative Ginzburg-Landau equation in higher dimension space n>2. We show that it is global well-posed and its solution will converge to that of derivative Schrodinger equation.
We prove the existence of time periodic solution to the 3D Ginzburg-Landau equation in weighted Sobolev spaces. We consider the cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation with an external force $g$ satisfying the oddness condition $g(-x,t)=-g(x,t)$. The existence of the periodic solution is proved for small time-periodic external force. The stability of the time periodic solution is also considered.
We introduce a functional framework taylored to investigate the minimality and stability properties of the Ginzburg-Landau vortex of degree one on the whole plane. We prove that a renormalized Ginzburg-Landau energy is well-defined in that framework and that the vortex is its unique global minimizer up to the invariances by translation and phase shift. Our main result is a nonlinear coercivity estimate for the renormalized energy around the vortex, from which we can deduce its orbital stability as a solution to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, the natural Hamiltonian evolution equation associate…
We consider a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, corresponding to a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a small dissipation term. We study an asymptotic regime for long-wave perturbations of constant maps of modulus one. We show that such solutions never vanish and we derive a damped wave dynamics for the perturbation.
We consider the Ginzburg-Landau functional with a variable applied magnetic field in a bounded and smooth two dimensional domain. We determine an accurate asymptotic formula for the minimizing energy when the Ginzburg-Landau parameter and the magnetic field are large and of the same order. As a consequence, it is shown how bulk superconductivity decreases in average as the applied magnetic field increases.
We prove the existence of nontrivial standing wave solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation $ϕ_t = e^{iθ} Δϕ+ e^{iγ} |ϕ|^αϕ$ with periodic boundary conditions. Our result includes all values of $θ$ and $γ$ for which $\cos θ\cos γ>0$, but requires that $α>0$ be sufficiently small.
The blow-up of solutions for the Cauchy problem of fractional Ginzburg-Landau equation with non-positive nonlinearity is shown by an ODE argument. Moreover, in one dimensional case, the optimal lifespan estimate for size of initial data is obtained.
In this paper, we look at a linear system of ordinary differential equations as derived from the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation. In two cases, it is known that this system admits bounded solutions coming from the invariance of the Ginzburg-Landau equation by translations and rotations. The specific contribution of our work is to prove that in the other cases, the system does not admit any bounded solutions. We show that this bounded solution problem is related to an eigenvalue problem.
We construct a solution for the Complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equation in a general critical case, which blows up in finite time T only at one blow-up point. We also give a sharp description of its profile.
In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviour of minimizing solutions of a Ginzburg-Landau type functional with a positive weight and with convex potential near $0$ and we estimate the energy in this case. We also generalize a lower bound for the energy of unit vector field given initially by Brezis-Merle-Rivière.
We study the Ginzburg-Landau energy of a superconductor with a variable magnetic field and a pinning term in a bounded smooth two dimensional domain $Ω$. Supposing that the Ginzburg-Landau parameter and the intensity of the magnetic field are large and of the same order, we determine an accurate asymptotic formula for the minimizing energy. This asymptotic formula displays the influence of the pinning term. Also, we discuss the existence of non-trivial solutions and prove some asymptotics of the third critical field.
We study a boundary value problem associated with a system of two second order differential equations with cubic nonlinearity which model a film of superconductor material subjected to a tangential magnetic field. We show that for an appropriate range of parameters there are {\it asymmetric} solutions, and only trivial {\it symmetric} solutions. We then show that the associated energy function is negative for the asymmetric solutions, and zero for the trivial symmetric solution. It follows that a global minimizer of the energy is asymmetric.
This paper is concerned with the stochastic generalized Ginzburg-Landau equation driven by a multiplicative noise of jump type. By a prior estimate, weak convergence and monotonicity technique, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of an initial-boundary value problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. However, for the generalized Ginzburg-Landau equation, such a locally monotonic condition of the nonlinear term can not be satisfied in a straight way. For this, we utilize the characteristic structure of nonlinear term and refined analysis to overcome this gap.
We consider the Ginzburg-Landau heat flow on the two-dimensional flat torus, starting from an initial data with a finite number of nondegenerate zeros -- but possibly very high initial energy. We show that the initial zeros are conserved and the flow rapidly enters a logarithmic energy regime, from which the evolution of vortices can be described by the works of Bethuel, Orlandi and Smets.
We study the time-dependent Ginzburg--Landau equations in a three-dimensional curved polyhedron (possibly nonconvex). Compared with the previous works, we prove existence and uniqueness of a global weak solution based on weaker regularity of the solution in the presence of edges or corners, where the magnetic potential may not be in $L^2(0,T;H^1(Ω)^3)$.
We establish vortex dynamics for the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for asymptotically large numbers of vortices for the problem without a gauge field and either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. As our main tool, we establish quantitative bounds on several fundamental quantities, including the kinetic energy, that lead to explicit convergence rates. For dilute vortex liquids we prove that sequences of solutions converge to the hydrodynamic limit.
In this paper, we consider the complex Ginzburg--Landau equation $u_t = e^{iθ} [Δu + |u|^αu] + γu$ on ${\mathbb R}^N $, where $α>0$, $γ\in \R$ and $-π/2<θ<π/2$. By convexity arguments we prove that, under certain conditions on $α,θ,γ$, a class of solutions with negative initial energy blows up in finite time.
Carleman estimate for full-discrete approximations of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with dynamic boundary conditions and applications to controllability
In this article, we review finite-time blowup criteria for the family of complex Ginzburg-Landau equations $u_t = e^{ iθ} [Δu + |u|^αu] + γu$ on ${\mathbb R}^N $, where $0 \le θ\le \frac {π} {2}$, $α>0$ and $γ\in {\mathbb R} $. We study in particular the effect of the parameters $θ$ and $γ$, and the dependence of the blowup time on these parameters.
We study a variational model which combines features of the Ginzburg-Landau model in 2D and of the Mumford-Shah functional. As in the classical Ginzburg-Landau theory, a prescribed number of point vortices appear in the small energy regime; the model allows for discontinuities, and the energy penalizes their length. The novel phenomenon here is that the vortices have a fractional degree $1/m$ with $m\geq 2$ prescribed. Those vortices must be connected by line discontinuities to form clusters of total integer degrees. The vortices and line discontinuities are therefore coupled through a topolog…
We consider the mixed Ginzburg-Landau flow that is supplemented with convective derivatives of the unknown function. We show that the associated vortex motion law is the mixed flow of the renormalized energy with new nonlinear forcing terms. These terms are uniquely determined by the extra terms in the initial PDE. Our proof relies on the assumption that the initial data are close to optimal.
We establish a glueing theorem for the Ginzburg-Landau equations in dimension $n > 2$. To this end, we consider a nondegenerate minimal submanifold of codimension 2, and construct a one-parameter family of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations such that the energy density concentrates near this submanifold. The proof is based on a construction of suitable approximate solutions and the implicite function theorem.
In our previous work,, we studied asymptotic behavior of minimizers of the Landau-de Gennes energy functional on planar domains as the nematic correlation length converges to zero. Here we improve upon those results, in particular by sharpening the description of the limiting map of the minimizers. We also provide an expression for the energy valid for a small, but fixed value of the nematic correlation length.
In this paper, we prove the exponential stabilization of solutions for complex Ginzburg-Landau equations using finite-parameter feedback control algorithms, which employ finitely many volume elements, Fourier modes or nodal observables (controllers). We also propose a feedback control for steering solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation to a desired solution of the non-controlled system. In this latter problem, the feedback controller also involves the measurement of the solution to the non-controlled system.
This paper studies questions related to the dynamic transition between local and global minimizers in the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. We derive a heuristic equation governing the dynamics of vortices that are close to the boundary, and of dipoles with small inter vortex separation. We consider a small random perturbation of this equation, and study the asymptotic regime under which vortices nucleate.
We consider the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic potential and study the transition from normal to superconducting solutions within the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity. We obtain oscillations consistent with the Little-Parks effect. We study the same problem but for a regularization of the Aharonov-Bohm potential, which leads to an interesting Aharonov-Bohm like magnetic field, and we prove that the transition between superconducting and normal solutions is not monotone too. Our results show a mechanism to derive the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic potential starting from a step magnetic field thereby…
We study vortex nucleation for minimizers of a Ginzburg-Landau energy with discontinuous constraint. For applied magnetic fields comparable with the first critical field of vortex nucleation, we determine the limiting vorticities.
We reconsider the elliptic estimates for magnetic operators in two and three dimensions used in connection with Ginzburg-Landau theory. Furthermore we discuss the so-called blow-up technique in order to obtain optimal estimates in the limiting cases.
It is proved that the vortices are attracted by impurities or inhomogeities in the superconducting materials. The strong H^1-convergence for the corresponding Ginzburg-Landau system is also proved.
We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for $n$-component Ginzburg-Landau equations as $\ve \to 0$. We prove that the minimizers converges locally in any $C^k$-norm to a solution of a system of generalized harmonic map equations.
We consider the Ginzburg-Landau functional defined over a bounded and smooth three dimensional domain. Supposing that the strength of the applied magnetic field varies between the first and second critical fields, in such a way that $H_{C_1}\ll H\ll H_{C_2}$, we estimate the ground state energy to leading order as the Ginzburg-Landau parameter tends to infinity.
This is a review about a series of results on vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity on the one hand, and point patterns in Coulomb gases on the other hand, as well as the connections between the two topics.