Ginzburg-Landau Vortices

Ginzburg-Landau Vortices
Author: Fabrice Bethuel
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319666738

This book is concerned with the study in two dimensions of stationary solutions of uɛ of a complex valued Ginzburg-Landau equation involving a small parameter ɛ. Such problems are related to questions occurring in physics, e.g., phase transition phenomena in superconductors and superfluids. The parameter ɛ has a dimension of a length which is usually small. Thus, it is of great interest to study the asymptotics as ɛ tends to zero. One of the main results asserts that the limit u-star of minimizers uɛ exists. Moreover, u-star is smooth except at a finite number of points called defects or vortices in physics. The number of these defects is exactly the Brouwer degree – or winding number – of the boundary condition. Each singularity has degree one – or as physicists would say, vortices are quantized. The material presented in this book covers mostly original results by the authors. It assumes a moderate knowledge of nonlinear functional analysis, partial differential equations, and complex functions. This book is designed for researchers and graduate students alike, and can be used as a one-semester text. The present softcover reprint is designed to make this classic text available to a wider audience.

Vortices in the Magnetic Ginzburg-Landau Model

Vortices in the Magnetic Ginzburg-Landau Model
Author: Etienne Sandier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2008-05-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817645500

This book presents the mathematical study of vortices of the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau model, an important phenomenological model used to describe superconductivity. The vortices, identified as quantized amounts of vorticity of the superconducting current localized near points, are the objects of many observational and experimental studies, both past and present. The Ginzburg-Landau functionals considered include both the model cases with and without a magnetic field. The book acts a guide to the various branches of Ginzburg-Landau studies, provides context for the study of vortices, and presents a list of open problems in the field.

Linear and Nonlinear Aspects of Vortices

Linear and Nonlinear Aspects of Vortices
Author: Frank Pacard
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2000-06-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780817641337

Aimed at mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and grad students, this monograph will be useful for the nonlinear analysis of problems arising in geometry or mathematical physics. The material presented covers recent and original results by the authors, and serves as an excellent classroom text or a valuable self-study resource.

Ginzburg–Landau Theory of Condensates

Ginzburg–Landau Theory of Condensates
Author: Baruch Rosenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108836852

A primer on Ginzberg-Landau Theory considering common and topological excitations including their thermodynamics and dynamical phenomena.

Ginzburg-Landau Phase Transition Theory and Superconductivity

Ginzburg-Landau Phase Transition Theory and Superconductivity
Author: K.-H. Hoffmann
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2001
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9783764364861

This monograph compiles, rearranges, and refines recent research results in the complex G-L theory with or without immediate applications to the theory of superconductivity. An authoritative reference for applied mathematicians, theoretical physicists and engineers interested in the quantitative description of superconductivity using Ginzburg-Landau theory.

Introduction To Nonlinear Dynamics For Physicists

Introduction To Nonlinear Dynamics For Physicists
Author: Henry D I Abarbanel
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1993-06-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814504122

This series of lectures aims to address three main questions that anyone interested in the study of nonlinear dynamics should ask and ponder over. What is nonlinear dynamics and how does it differ from linear dynamics which permeates all familiar textbooks? Why should the physicist study nonlinear systems and leave the comfortable territory of linearity? How can one progress in the study of nonlinear systems both in the analysis of these systems and in learning about new systems from observing their experimental behavior? While it is impossible to answer these questions in the finest detail, this series of lectures nonetheless successfully points the way for the interested reader. Other useful problems have also been incorporated as a study guide. By presenting both substantial qualitative information about phenomena in nonlinear systems and at the same time sufficient quantitative material, the author hopes that readers would learn how to progress on their own in the study of such similar material hereon.

Vortex Dominated Flows

Vortex Dominated Flows
Author: Denis L. Blackmore
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812563202

Honoring the contributions of one of the field's leading experts, Lu Ting, this indispensable volume contains important new results at the cutting edge of research. A wide variety of significant new analytical and numerical results in critical areas are presented, including point vortex dynamics, superconductor vortices, cavity flows, vortex breakdown, shock/vortex interaction, wake flows, magneto-hydrodynamics, rotary wake flows, and hypersonic vortex phenomena.The book will be invaluable for those interested in the state of the art of vortex dominated flows, both from a theoretical and applied perspective.Professor Lu Ting and Joe Keller have worked together for over 40 years. In their first joint work entitled ?Periodic vibrations of systems governed by nonlinear partial differential equations?, perturbation analysis and bifurcation theory were used to determine the frequencies and modes of vibration of various physical systems. The novelty was the application to partial differential equations of methods which, previously, had been used almost exclusively on ordinary differential equations. Professsor Lu Ting is an expert in both fluid dynamics and the use of matched asymptotic expansions. His physical insight into fluid flows has led the way to finding the appropriate mathematical simplications used in the solutions to many difficult flow problems.

Superconductivity

Superconductivity
Author: R.D. Parks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351412876

First published in 1969. CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.

Recent Trends In Chaotic, Nonlinear And Complex Dynamics

Recent Trends In Chaotic, Nonlinear And Complex Dynamics
Author: Jan Awrejcewicz
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981122191X

In recent years, enormous progress has been made on nonlinear dynamics particularly on chaos and complex phenomena. This unique volume presents the advances made in theory, analysis, numerical simulation and experimental realization, promising novel practical applications on various topics of current interest on chaos and related fields of nonlinear dynamics.Particularly, the focus is on the following topics: synchronization vs. chaotic phenomena, chaos and its control in engineering dynamical systems, fractal-based dynamics, uncertainty and unpredictability measures vs. chaos, Hamiltonian systems and systems with time delay, local/global stability, bifurcations and their control, applications of machine learning to chaos, nonlinear vibrations of lumped mass mechanical/mechatronic systems (rigid body and coupled oscillator dynamics) governed by ODEs and continuous structural members (beams, plates, shells) vibrations governed by PDEs, patterns formation, chaos in micro- and nano-mechanical systems, chaotic reduced-order models, energy absorption/harvesting from chaotic, chaos vs. resonance phenomena, chaos exhibited by discontinuous systems, chaos in lab experiments.The present volume forms an invaluable source on recent trends in chaotic and complex dynamics for any researcher and newcomers to the field of nonlinear dynamics.

Superconductivity, Superfluids and Condensates

Superconductivity, Superfluids and Condensates
Author: James F. Annett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2004-03-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780198507567

This textbook series has been designed for final year undergraduate and first year graduate students, providing an overview of the entire field showing how specialized topics are part of the wider whole, and including references to current areas of literature and research.