Minimizers of the Lawrence--Doniach energy in the small-coupling limit: Finite width samples in a parallel field

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(01)00081-6zbMATH Open1011.82032arXivmath/0010110OpenAlexW2020578423MaRDI QIDQ1865026FDOQ1865026

Authors: A. J. Berlinsky, Stan Alama, Lia Bronsard 

Publication date: 23 March 2003

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the Lawrence-Doniach model for layered superconductors, for a sample with finite width subjected to a magnetic field parallel to the superconducting layers. We provide a rigorous analysis of the energy minimizers in the limit as the coupling between adjacent superconducting layers tends to zero. We identify a unique global minimizer of the Gibbs free energy in this regime ("vortex planes"), and reveal a sequence of first-order phase transitions by which Josephson vortices are nucleated via the boundary. The small coupling limit is studied via degenerate perturbation theory based on a Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition which reduces the Lawrence-Doniach system to a finite-dimensional variational problem. Finally, a lower bound on the radius of validity of the perturbation expansion (in terms of various parameters appearing in the model) is obtained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010110

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zbMATH Keywords

degenerate perturbation theoryLawrence-Doniach modellayered superconductorsrigorous analysis the energy minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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