The Ginzburg-Landau functional with a discontinuous and rapidly oscillating pinning term. Part II: the non-zero degree case
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We consider minimizers of a Ginzburg-Landau energy with a discontinuous and rapidly oscillating pinning term, subject to a Dirichlet boundary condition of degree d > 0. The pinning term models an unbounded number of small impurities in the domain. We prove that for strongly type II superconductor with impurities, minimizers have exactly d isolated zeros (vortices). These vortices are of degree 1 and pinned by the impurities. As in the standard case studied by Bethuel, Brezis and Hélein, the macroscopic location of vortices is governed by vortex/vortex and vortex/ boundary repelling effects. In some special cases we prove that their macroscopic location tends to minimize the renormalized energy of Bethuel-Brezis-Hélein. In addition, impurities affect the microscopic location of vortices. Our technics allows us to work with impurities having different size. In this situation we prove that vortices are pinned by the largest impurities.
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The Ginzburg-Landau functional with a discontinuous and rapidly oscillating pinning term. Part I: the zero degree case
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