Microscopic renormalized energy for a pinned Ginzburg-Landau functional (Q2347165)

The article gives a positive answer to an open problem in a previous work of the author [\textit{M. Dos Santos}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 62, No. 2, 551--641 (2013; Zbl 1315.49010)]. It is the problem described in Perspective (4) of Section 5. The pinned energies are used to model impurities in a superconductor. They allow to decrease the energy dissipation by pinning the vorticity defects. The main questions related to the vorticity defects in the minimization of the pinned energy are the ones about the quantization and location of the vorticity defects. The location part is done in three steps: pinning, macroscopic location and microscopic location. The aim of the paper is to prove that the limiting microscopic location of the vortices is zero. In fact, one proves that, under some special assumptions, zero is the unique minimizer of the renormalized energy.