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This paper is concerned with spectrum properties of the magnetic Laplacian with a higher-order vanishing magnetic field in a bounded domain. We study the asymptotic behaviors of ground state energies for the Dirichlet Laplacian, the Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Zhongwei Shen

A new description is proposed for the low-field critical behavior of type-II superconductors. The starting point is the Ginzburg-Landau theory in presence of an external magnetic field H. A set of fictitious vortex variables and a singular…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Zlatko Tesanovic

When a superconducting sample is submitted to a sufficiently strong external magnetic field, the superconductivity of the material is lost. In this paper we prove that this effect does not, in general, take place at a unique value of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Søren Fournais , Mikael Persson Sundqvist

The influence of a magnetic field on superconductivity is usually described either phenomenologically, using Ginzburg-Landau theory, or semiclassically using Gor'kov theory. In this article we discuss the influence of magnetic fields on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 A. H. MacDonald , Hiroshi Akera , M. R. Norman

This paper is devoted to the spectral analysis of the Neumann realization of the 2D magnetic Laplacian with semiclassical parameter h > 0 in the case when the magnetic field vanishes along a smooth curve which crosses itself inside a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Monique Dauge , Jean-Philippe Miqueu , Nicolas Raymond

In this work, we study the numerical approximation of minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy, a common model to describe the behavior of superconductors under magnetic fields. The unknowns are the order parameter, which characterizes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Christian Döding , Benjamin Dörich , Patrick Henning

We determine accurate asymptotics of the lowest eigenvalue for the Laplace operator with a smooth magnetic field and Robin boundary conditions in a smooth 3D domain, when the Robin parameter tends to $+\infty$. Our results identify a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Nicolas Raymond

The article reviews recent developments on magnetic properties of superconductors with anisotropic Cooper pairing. In particular, we show how the concept of broken symmetries is applied to the investigation of the mixed state in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 I. A. Luk'yanchuk , M. E. Zhitomirsky

In the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, the temperature dependence of the upper critical field of small ring-like superconductors is studied. At equilibrium small parts of the phase diagram show paramagnetism for width / radius…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Meyers

Starting from the Ginzburg--Landau model in a planar simply connected domain, with a local compactly supported applied magnetic field, we derive an effective model in the strong field limit, defined on a non-simply connected domain. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ayman Kachmar , Mikael Sundqvist

We study the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau functional in a domain with corners for exterior magnetic field strengths near the critical field where the transition from the superconducting to the normal state occurs. We discuss and clarify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 V. Bonnaillie-Noël , S. Fournais

The aim of this paper is to establish estimates of the lowest eigenvalue of the Neumann realization of $(i\nabla+B\textbf{A})^2$ on an open bounded subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$ $\Omega$ with smooth boundary as $B$ tends to infinity. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicolas Raymond

In superconductors with large values of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter, exposed to magnetic fields close to the upper critical field, the magnetic field is practically homogeneous across the sample and the density of supercurrents is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Landau , H. R. Ott

The Ginzburg-Landau model is a phenomenological description of superconductivity. A crucial feature of type-II superconductors is the occurrence of vortices, which appear above a certain value of the applied magnetic field called the first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Carlos Román

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation that describes the dynamics of a macroscopic magnetic moment finds its limit of validity at very short times. The reason for this limit is well understood in terms of separation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jean-Eric Wegrowe , Enrick Olive

In Ginzburg-Landau Theory of superconductivity, the density and location of the superconducting electrons are measured by a complex-valued wave function, the order parameter. In this paper, when the intensity of the applied magnetic field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Ayman Kachmar

Applying the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations, transitions between metastable states of a superconducting ring are investigated in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is shown that if the ring exhibits several metastable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Y. Vodolazov , F. M. Peeters

Magnetic properties of layered high temperature superconductors with a weak interlayer coupling in the region of the critical fluctuations are investigated in the framework of the Ginzburg--Landau approach. The sample magnetization is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory M. Braverman

In this paper we consider a Robin-type Laplace operator on bounded domains. We study the dependence of its lowest eigenvalue on the boundary conditions and its asymptotic behavior in shrinking and expanding domains. For convex domains we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Hynek Kovarik

We derive the Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson theory for the superconducting phase transition in two dimensions and in the magnetic field. Without disorder the theory describes a fluctuation induced first-order quantum phase transition into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 W. C. Wu , Igor F. Herbut