Essential to the derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau equation is assumption that the spatial variables of the vector field U(x, y, t) are defined on a cylindrical domain. This means that (x, y) ∈ R ×Ω, where Ω ⊂ R is a open and bounded domain (and m ≥ 1, n ≥ 0), so that U : R ×Ω×R+ → R . The N ×N constant coefficient matrix Sμ is assumed to be non-negative, in the sense that all its eigenvalues a...

We study a mixed heat and Schrödinger Ginzburg-Landau evolution equation on a bounded two-dimensional domain with an electric current applied on the boundary and a pinning potential term. This is meant to model a superconductor subjected to an applied electric current and electromagnetic field and containing impurities. Such a current is expected to set the vortices in motion, while the pinning...

We study the asymptotic limit of solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equations in two dimensions with or without magnetic field. We first study the Ginzburg-Landau system with magnetic field describing a superconductor in an applied magnetic field, in the “London limit” of a Ginzburg-Landau parameter κ tending to ∞. We examine the asymptotic behavior of the “vorticity measures” associated to the v...

Relative equilibria are special solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs), which are stationary in an appropriate comoving frame of reference. Such solutions occur frequently in biological and chemical models, e.g. when describing pattern formation of reaction-diffusion equations. Examples are traveling waves in 1d, planar and spiral waves in 2d and scroll waves in 3d. If the equation ...

We consider the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau equation in a bounded domain. We assume the stochastic forcing acts only on high spatial frequencies. The low-lying frequencies are then only connected to this forcing through the non-linear (cubic) term of the Ginzburg-Landau equation. Under these assumptions, we show that the stochastic PDE has a unique invariant measure. The techniques of proof comb...

We consider a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for superconductors with a strictly complex relaxation parameter, and derive motion laws for the vortices in the case of a finite number of vortices in a bounded magnetic field. The motion laws correspond to the flux-flow Hall effect. As our main tool, we develop a quantitative Γstability result relating the Ginzburg-Landau energy to the ren...

We study the Ginzburg-Landau energy of a single vortex and prove a quantitative estimate for the anisotropy of the stress-energy tensor. In particular we establish an asymptotic rate of equipartitioning of the energy along each direction. By means of an explicit example, this rate is shown to be optimal up to a constant. The result has applications in the study of the nonlinear wave equation an...

We study slowly moving solutions of the real Ginzburg-Landau equation on the line, by a method due to J. Carr and R.L. Pego. These are functions taking alternately positive or negative values on large intervals. A consequence of our approach is that we can propose a rigorous derivation of a stochastic model of coarsening by successive elimination of the smallest interval, which was described in...

We have studied patterns of electrically-driven convective vortices in thin freely-suspended lms of smectic liquid crystal at and above the onset of con-vection. We present measurements of the convective amplitude above onset, the spatial variation of the amplitude due to the presence of end walls, and the relaxation of the amplitude following a sudden change in the experimental control paramet...