Magnetic vortices for a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with discontinuous constraint

Ayman Kachmar

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations (2010)

  • Volume: 16, Issue: 3, page 545-580
  • ISSN: 1292-8119

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This paper is devoted to an analysis of vortex-nucleation for a Ginzburg-Landau functional with discontinuous constraint. This functional has been proposed as a model for vortex-pinning, and usually accounts for the energy resulting from the interface of two superconductors. The critical applied magnetic field for vortex nucleation is estimated in the London singular limit, and as a by-product, results concerning vortex-pinning and boundary conditions on the interface are obtained.

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Kachmar, Ayman. "Magnetic vortices for a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with discontinuous constraint." ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 16.3 (2010): 545-580. <http://eudml.org/doc/250815>.

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