Lowest Landau level approach in superconductivity for the Abrikosov lattice close to $$H_{{c}_{2}}$$

Abstract

We study the Ginzburg-Landau energy for a superconductor submitted to a magnetic field h ex just below the "second critical field" H c 2 . When the Ginzburg-Landau parameter ε is small, we show that the mean energy per unit volume can be approximated by a reduced energy on a torus. Moreover, we expand this reduced energy in terms of H c 2 − h ex : when this quantity gets small, the problem amounts to a minimization problem on a finite-dimensional space, equivalent to the "lowest Landau level" in other approaches. The functions in this finite-dimensional space can themselves be expressed via the Jacobi Theta function of a lattice. This connects the Ginzburg-Landau energy to the "Abrikosov problem" of locating vortices optimally on a lattice. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 82D55, 35B40, 35B25, 35J60, 35J20, 58E50.

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