Topological singularities in periodic media: Ginzburg-Landau and core-radius approaches

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01731-7zbMATH Open1481.35148arXiv2012.12559OpenAlexW3117331192MaRDI QIDQ2070907FDOQ2070907

Authors: Roberto Alicandro, Andrea Braides, Marco Cicalese, L. de Luca, A. Piatnitski 

Publication date: 25 January 2022

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe the emergence of topological singularities in periodic media within the Ginzburg-Landau model and the core-radius approach. The energy functionals of both models are denoted by $E_{varepsilon,delta}$, where $varepsilon$ represent the coherence length (in the Ginzburg-Landau model) or the core-radius size (in the core-radius approach) and $delta$ denotes the periodicity scale. We carry out the $Gamma$-convergence analysis of $E_{varepsilon,delta}$ as $varepsilono0$ and $delta=delt{a}_{varepsilon}o0$ in the $|logvarepsilon|$ scaling regime, showing that the $Gamma$-limit consists in the energy cost of finitely many vortex-like point singularities of integer degree. After introducing the scale parameter (upon extraction of subsequences) ${\displaystyle }$ lambda=minBigl{1,lim_{varepsilon o0} {|log delta_{varepsilon}|over|log{varepsilon}|}Bigr}, ${\displaystyle }$ we show that in a sense we always have a separation-of-scale effect: at scales less than $varepsilo{n}^{l}ambda$ we first have a concentration process around some vortices whose location is subsequently optimized, while for scales larger than $varepsilo{n}^{l}ambda$ the concentration process takes place "after" homogenization.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12559

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zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalGinzburg-Landau modeltopological singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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