Multi-component Ginzburg-Landau theory: microscopic derivation and examples (Q312215)

The Ginzburg-Landau theory is the main tool in the description of superconductors and superfluids near their critical temperature. Basically, it is a macroscopic approach to superconductors. Here on the contrary, one studies microscopically derived Ginzburg-Landau theories involving multiple types of superconductivity for systems without external fields. One derives the GL theory in the degenerate case, then one deals with \(d\)-wave order parameters, and then one considers radial potentials with ground states of arbitrary angular momentum. The main results display the microscopically derived energy and give a careful description of all the minimizers. On the mathematical standpoint, the paper starts from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory and works via some standard inequality of functional analysis.