Study of a 3D-Ginzburg-Landau functional with a discontinuous pinning term

Publication date 21 September 2012

Abstract: In a convex domain

O s u b s e t R^{3}

, we consider the minimization of a 3D-Ginzburg-Landau type energy

E_{v} (u) = 1 / 2 i n t_{O} | u |^{2} + f r a c 1 2 v^{2} (a^{2} - | u |^{2})^{2}

with a discontinuous pinning term

a

among

H^{1} (O, C)

-maps subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition

g i n H^{1 / 2} (p O, S^{1})

. The pinning term

a : R^{3} o R_{+}^{*}

takes a constant value

b i n (0, 1)

in

o

, an inner strictly convex subdomain of

O

, and 1 outside

o

. We prove energy estimates with various error terms depending on assumptions on

O, o

and

g

. In some special cases, we identify the vorticity defects via the concentration of the energy. Under hypotheses on the singularities of

g

(the singularities are polarized and quantified by their degrees which are

p m 1

), vorticity defects are geodesics (computed w.r.t. a geodesic metric

d_{a^{2}}

depending only on

a

) joining two paired singularities of

g

where

s i g m a

is a minimal connection (computed w.r.t. a metric

d_{a^{2}}

) of the singularities of

g

and

p_{1}, ... p_{k}

are the positive (resp.

n_{1}, ..., n_{k}

the negative) singularities.

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