Ginzburg-landau Vortices

Download or read book Ginzburg-landau Vortices written by Haim Brezis and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ginzburg-Landau equation as a mathematical model of superconductors has become an extremely useful tool in many areas of physics where vortices carrying a topological charge appear. The remarkable progress in the mathematical understanding of this equation involves a combined use of mathematical tools from many branches of mathematics. The Ginzburg-Landau model has been an amazing source of new problems and new ideas in analysis, geometry and topology. This collection will meet the urgent needs of the specialists, scholars and graduate students working in this area or related areas.