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

DOI10.1016/S0294-1449(01)00081-6MaRDI QIDQ1865026zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate perturbation theoryLawrence-Doniach modellayered superconductorsrigorous analysis the energy minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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.

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