\(\Gamma\)-convergence analysis of a generalized \(XY\) model: fractional vortices and string defects

DOI10.1007/s00220-017-3026-3zbMath1394.82021arXiv1612.03128MaRDI QIDQ2413443

Marco Cicalese, Marcello Ponsiglione, Lucia De Luca, Rufat Badal

Publication date: 10 April 2018

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03128

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variations; dislocations; Ginzburg-Landau; \(\Gamma\)-convergence; liquid crystals; XY spin systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

82D30: Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses)

82B20: Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics