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Thin film limits for Ginzburg--Landau with strong applied magnetic fields
In this work, we study thin-film limits of the full three-dimensional
Ginzburg-Landau model for a superconductor in an applied magnetic field
oriented obliquely to the film surface. We obtain Gamma-convergence results in
several regimes, determined by the asymptotic ratio between the magnitude of
the parallel applied magnetic field and the thickness of the film. Depending on
the regime, we show that there may be a decrease in the density of Cooper
pairs. We also show that in the case of variable thickness of the film, its
geometry will affect the effective applied magnetic field, thus influencing the
position of vortices
Critical magnetic field and asymptotic behavior of superconducting thin films
In this paper, we discuss the vortex structure of the superconducting thin films placed in a magnetic field. The discussion is based on a system of simplified Ginzburg-Landau equations. We obtain the estimate for the lower critical magnetic field H-c1, in the sense that it is the first critical value of h(ex), the applied field, for which the minimal energy among vortexless configurations is equal to the minimal energy among single-vortex configurations; moreover, it corresponds to the first phase transition in which vortices appear in the superconductor. We also discuss the location of these vortices and the asymptotic behavior of the local minimizers