Long-time stabilization of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity (Q5950048)

The paper considers the well-known time-dependent system of Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equations which govern the evolution of the complex order parameter (wave function of the Cooper pairs) and real vectorial potential of the magnetic field in a superconductor near the critical point. In the two- and three-dimensional geometry, a rather general case is considered, when the external magnetic field may vary in time, but so that it tends to a stationary field at \(t \to \infty\). For this case, the paper presents a rigorous proof of the statement that the corresponding solution to the time-dependent GL equations also tends to a single solution of the corresponding stationary version of the GL equations. The proof essentially uses the fact that the time-dependent GL equations is a gradient dissipative system of the parabolic type with a real Lyapunov functional. To guarantee the existence of the latter functional, a specific gauge, i.e., a choice of a relation between the electrostatic and vectorial magnetic potentials, is exploited. The proof is carried out for the GL equations written as a gradient evolutional system in the corresponding functional space.