Landau-Ginzburg skeletons

(0,2) Landau-ginzburg Theory ⋆

A large class of (0,2) Calabi-Yau σ-models and Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds are shown to arise as different “phases” of supersymmetric gauge theories. We find a phenomenon in the Landau-Ginzburg phase which may enable one to understand which Calabi-Yau σ-models evade destabilization by worldsheet instantons. Examples of (0,2) LandauGinzburg vacua are analyzed in detail, and several novel features ...

Superconductivity: Ginzburg-Landau Theory

Discrete Ginzburg-Landau solitons.

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.

The Complex Ginzburg-landau Equation∗

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...

Dynamics of Ginzburg-Landau vortices