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We construct local minimizers to the Ginzburg-Landau functional of superconductivity whose number of vortices N is prescribed and blows up as the parameter epsilon, inverse of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter kappa, tends to zero. We treat the…
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…
It is shown that the Josephson subsystem of the Lawrence-Doniach model of layered superconductors in the London approximation can be presented as a system with variable number of classical Coulomb particles. This allows us to consider the…
Using the quasi-classical formalism we provide the description of the temperature and field-direction dependence of the in-plane upper critical field in layered superconductors, taking into account the interlayer Josephson coupling and the…
We study a modified Landau-de Gennes model for nematic liquid crystals, where the elastic term is assumed to be of subquadratic growth in the gradient. We analyze the behaviour of global minimizers in two- and three-dimensional domains,…
This article is concerned with the problem of minimising the Willmore energy in the class of \emph{connected} surfaces with prescribed area which are confined to a small container. We propose a phase field approximation based on De Giorgi's…
We introduce a diffuse-interface Landau-de Gennes free energy for nematic liquid crystals (NLC) systems, with free boundaries, in three dimensions submerged in isotropic liquid, and a phase field is introduced to model the deformable…
We study the effects of superconducting pairing in small metallic grains. We show that in the limit of large Thouless conductance one can explicitly determine the low energy spectrum of the problem as an expansion in the inverse number of…
We study pattern formation within the $J_1$-$J_3$ - spin model on a two-dimensional square lattice in the case of incompatible (ferromagnetic) boundary conditions on the spin field. We derive the discrete-to-continuum $\Gamma$-limit at the…
This paper studies questions related to the dynamic transition between local and global minimizers in the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. We derive a heuristic equation governing the dynamics of vortices that are close to the…
Ferromagnetic materials are governed by a variational principle which is nonlocal, nonconvex and multiscale. The main object is given by a unit-length three-dimensional vector field, the magnetization, that corresponds to the stable states…
Energy minimizers to a MEMS model with an insulating layer are shown to converge in its reinforced limit to the minimizer of the limiting model as the thickness of the layer tends to zero. The proof relies on the identification of the…
A recently developed linear algebraic method for the computation of perturbation expansion coefficients to large order is applied to the problem of a hydrogenic atom in a magnetic field. We take as the zeroth order approximation the $D…
In materials that undergo martensitic phase transformation, macroscopic loading often leads to the creation and/or rearrangement of elastic domains. This paper considers an example {involving} a single-crystal slab made from two martensite…
The behavior of the resolvent at low energies has implications for many kinds of asymptotics, including for the scattering matrix and phase, for the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, and for wave evolution. In this paper we present a robust method,…
We compute the high-dimensional limit of the free energy associated with a multi-layer generalized linear model. Under certain technical assumptions, we identify the limit in terms of a variational formula. The approach is to first show…
We identify the $\Gamma$-limit of a nanoparticle-polymer model as the number of particles goes to infinity and as the size of the particles and the phase transition thickness of the polymer phases approach zero. The limiting energy consists…
In this paper, we focus on finite Bravais lattice energies per point in two dimensions. We compute the first and second derivatives of these energies. We prove that the Hessian at the square and the triangular lattice are diagonal and we…
We consider renormalizable Standard-Model extensions that violate Lorentz symmetry at high energies, but preserve CPT, and do not contain elementary scalar fields. A Nambu--Jona-Lasinio mechanism gives masses to fermions and gauge bosons,…
For a bounded smooth domain in the plane and smooth boundary data we consider the minimisation of the Willmore functional for graphs subject to Dirichlet or Navier boundary conditions. For $H^2$-regular graphs we show that bounds for the…