We demonstrate that discrete solitons are possible in Ginzburg-Landau lattices. As a result of discreteness, we find that this system exhibits a host of features that have no counterpart whatsoever in either the continuous limit or in other conservative discrete models.

We study the Ginzburg-Landau energy of superconductors submitted to a possibly non-uniform magnetic eld, in the limit of a large Ginzburg-Landau parameter. We prove that the induced magnetic elds associated to minimizers of the energy-functional converge as ! +1 to the solution of a free-boundary problem. This free boundary-problem has a nontrivial solution only when the applied magnetic eld is...