Large vorticity stable solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations (Q2866928)

The article deals with finding local minimizers of the 2D Ginzburg-Landau functional of superconductivity. The number of vortices \(N\) of the functional is prescribed and blows up as \(\epsilon\), the inverse of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter, tends to \(0\). The authors consider cases of \(N\) as large as \(|\log\epsilon|\), and a wide range of intensities of the external magnetic field. They construct an explicit configuration with \(N\) vortices uniformly distributed according to certain measure and superconducting current almost minimizing the ``Coulombian renormalized energy''. A check of the test configuration belonging to the admissible class, and an almost optimal upper bound for its energy are given. General properties of the admissible set characterizing the total vorticity are also analyzed, and lower bounds for the components of the energy are given. The proof of the main result, which states the existence of the minimizer of the above mentioned functional, is given in the last section by showing the fact that the minimizers do not lie on the boundary of the admissible class.