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Zbl 0896.35044
Bethuel, Fabrice
Vortices in Ginzburg-Landau equations. (English)
[J] Doc. Math., J. DMV, Extra Vol. ICM Berlin 1998, vol. III, 11-19 (1998). ISSN 1431-0635; ISSN 1431-0643/e

Summary: GL models were first introduced by V. Ginzburg and L. Landau around $1950$ in order to describe superconductivity. Similar models appeared soon after for various phenomena: Bose condensation, superfluidity, non linear optics. A common property of these models is the major role of topological defects, termed in our context vortices. In a joint book with H. Brezis and F. Hélein, we considered a simple model situation, involving a bounded domain $\Omega $ in $\bbfR^2$, and maps $v$ from $\Omega $ to $\bbfR^2$. The Ginzburg-Landau functional then writes $$E_{\varepsilon}(v)=\frac{1}{2} \int_{\Omega} |\nabla v|^2 + \frac{1}{4\varepsilon^2} \int_{\Omega } (1-| v|^2)^2.$$ Here $\varepsilon $ is a parameter describing some characteristic length. We are interested in the study of stationary maps for that energy, when $\varepsilon $ is small (and in the limit $\varepsilon $ goes to zero). For such a map the potential forces $| v|$ to be close to $1$ and $v$ will be almost $S^1$-valued. However at some point $| v|$ may have to vanish, introducing defects of topological nature, the vortices. An important issue is then to determine the nature and location of these vortices. We will also discuss recent advances in more physical models like superconductivity, superfluidity, as well as for the dynamics: as previously the emphasis is on the behavior of the vortices.

MSC 2000:: *35J65 (Nonlinear) BVP for (non)linear elliptic equations
35B05 General behavior of solutions of PDE
35Q35 Other equations arising in fluid mechanics
35Q55 NLS-like (nonlinear Schroedinger) equations
82D50 Superfluids
82D55 Superconductors
35J20 Second order elliptic equations, variational methods

Keywords: superconductivity; location of vortices

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