From the Ginzburg-Landau model to vortex lattice problems (Q444081)

The authors are interested in deriving a ``Coulombian renormalized energy'' from the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity. One of the key tools in the arguments is the associated renormalized energy combined with an abstract method for lower bounds for two-scale energies using ergodic theory. The main results establish various properties, such as the existence of minimizers. In particular, by means of some results in number theory, it is established that among lattice configurations the triangular lattice is the unique minimizer.