Boundary behavior of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter in the surface superconductivity regime

DOI10.1007/S00205-015-0900-ZMaRDI QIDQ5962866zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Correggi, N. Rougerie

Publication date 25 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2259

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layerGinzburg-Landaumagnetic fieldsuperconductivity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56)

Abstract: We study the 2D Ginzburg-Landau theory for a type-II superconductor in an applied magnetic field varying between the second and third critical value. In this regime the order parameter minimizing the GL energy is concentrated along the boundary of the sample and is well approximated to leading order by a simplified 1D profile in the direction perpendicular to the boundary. Motivated by a conjecture of Xing-Bin Pan, we address the question of whether this approximation can hold uniformly in the boundary region. We prove that this is indeed the case as a corollary of a refined, second order energy expansion including contributions due to the curvature of the sample. Local variations of the GL order parameter are controlled by the second order term of this energy expansion, which allows us to prove the desired uniformity of the surface superconductivity layer.

Review text

The authors study the behaviour, as \(\varepsilon \to 0\), of minimisers \((\Psi_\varepsilon,A_\varepsilon)\) of the singularly perturbed energy \[ \mathcal{G}_\varepsilon [\Psi,A]=\int_{\Omega}^{}\left\{\left|\left(\nabla+i\frac{A}{\varepsilon^2} \right)\Psi \right|^2-\frac{1}{2b\varepsilon^2}(2|\Psi|^2-|\Psi|^4)+\frac{b}{\varepsilon^4}|\mathrm{curl }A-1|^2\right\}dr \] for \(\Psi \in H^1(\Omega;\mathbb{C})\) and \(A \in H^1(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^2)\), where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2\) is a compact simply connected set with regular boundary, and \(b\) is a fixed parameter such that \(1<b<\Theta_0^{-1}\) with \(\Theta_0\) denoting the minimal ground state energy of shifted harmonic oscillators on the half-line. The energy \(\mathcal{G}_\varepsilon\) arises in the study of the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for a type-II superconductor in an applied magnetic field varying between the second and third critical value. In this regime, the order parameter \(\Psi_\varepsilon\) minimizing the GL energy is concentrated along the boundary of \(\Omega\), in a thin boundary layer of thickness of order \(\varepsilon\). It is well approximated to leading order (in \(L^2\) norm) by a squeezed, one-dimensional profile in the direction perpendicular to the boundary. More precisely, that one-dimensional profile is that which achieves the minimal ground state energy among a class of shifted nonlinear harmonic oscillators on the half-line. On the other hand, the applied magnetic field is very close to the induced magnetic field, that is \(\mathrm{curl }A_\varepsilon \sim 1\). Motivated by a conjecture of Xing-Bin Pan, they address the question of whether this approximation can hold uniformly in the boundary region. They prove that this is indeed the case as a corollary of a refined, second order energy expansion which includes contributions due to the curvature of the sample.

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