Singular limits of anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau functional (Q2191073)

The author deals with the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau functional in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) of superconductivity. Here, the functional above includes the electromagnetic vector potential, and the anisotropy means that the effective mass \(M_i\) \((i=1,\, 2,\, 3)\) of a Cooper pair along a space direction \(x_i\) (in \(\mathbb{R}^3\)) is different from the effective mass \(M_j\) along another space direction \(x_j\) \((i \not= j)\). The author takes the limit \(M_i \to 0\) or \(M_i \to \infty\) for each \(i\), and studies the asymptotic behavior of the minimizer of the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau functional. Moreover, the author points out several properties of the minimizer as \(M_i \to 0\) or \(M_i \to \infty\) for each \(i\).