Generation of vortices in the Ginzburg–Landau heat flow

  • Michał Kowalczyk

    Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Xavier Lamy

    Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse; Université de Toulouse, CNRS, France
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Abstract

We consider the Ginzburg–Landau heat flow on the flat two-dimensional torus, starting from initial data with a finite number of nondegenerate zeros – but very high initial energy. We show that the initial zeros are conserved, while away from these zeros the modulus quickly grows close to 1, and the flow rapidly enters a logarithmic energy regime, from which the evolution of vortices can be described by the works of Bethuel, Orlandi and Smets.

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Michał Kowalczyk, Xavier Lamy, Generation of vortices in the Ginzburg–Landau heat flow. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 41 (2024), no. 6, pp. 1509–1526

DOI 10.4171/AIHPC/96