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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Alama, Stan | Bronsard, Lia; | Galvão-Sousa, Bernardo
Affiliations: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. E-mails: {alama, bronsard}@mcmaster.ca | Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. E-mail: beni@math.toronto.edu
Note: [] Corresponding author: L. Bronsard, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. E-mail: bronsard@mcmaster.ca
Abstract: We consider singular limits of the three-dimensional Ginzburg–Landau functional for a superconductor with thin-film geometry, in a constant external magnetic field. The superconducting domain has characteristic thickness on the scale ε>0, and we consider the simultaneous limit as the thickness ε→0 and the Ginzburg–Landau parameter κ→∞. We assume that the applied field is strong (on the order of ε−1 in magnitude) in its components tangential to the film domain, and of order log κ in its dependence on κ. We prove that the Ginzburg–Landau energy Γ-converges to an energy associated with a two-obstacle problem, posed on the planar domain which supports the thin film. The same limit is obtained regardless of the relationship between ε and κ in the limit. Two illustrative examples are presented, each of which demonstrating how the curvature of the film can induce the presence of both (positively oriented) vortices and (negatively oriented) antivortices coexisting in a global minimizer of the energy.
Keywords: partial differential equations, calculus of variations, Ginzburg–Landau, superconductivity
DOI: 10.3233/ASY-2012-1155
Journal: Asymptotic Analysis, vol. 83, no. 1-2, pp. 127-156, 2013
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