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

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01731-7MaRDI QIDQ2070907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

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)

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.

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