{"title":"Layered solutions for a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau model with periodic modulation","authors":"Ko-Shin Chen, C. Muratov, Xiaodong Yan","doi":"10.3934/mine.2023090","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We study layered solutions in a one-dimensional version of the scalar Ginzburg-Landau equation that involves a mixture of a second spatial derivative and a fractional half-derivative, together with a periodically modulated nonlinearity. This equation appears as the Euler-Lagrange equation of a suitably renormalized fractional Ginzburg-Landau energy with a double-well potential that is multiplied by a 1-periodically varying nonnegative factor $ g(x) $ with $ \\int_0^1 \\frac{1}{g(x)} dx < \\infty. $ A priori this energy is not bounded below due to the presence of a nonlocal term in the energy. Nevertheless, through a careful analysis of a minimizing sequence we prove existence of global energy minimizers that connect the two wells at infinity. These minimizers are shown to be the classical solutions of the associated nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau type equation.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3934/mine.2023090","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We study layered solutions in a one-dimensional version of the scalar Ginzburg-Landau equation that involves a mixture of a second spatial derivative and a fractional half-derivative, together with a periodically modulated nonlinearity. This equation appears as the Euler-Lagrange equation of a suitably renormalized fractional Ginzburg-Landau energy with a double-well potential that is multiplied by a 1-periodically varying nonnegative factor $ g(x) $ with $ \int_0^1 \frac{1}{g(x)} dx < \infty. $ A priori this energy is not bounded below due to the presence of a nonlocal term in the energy. Nevertheless, through a careful analysis of a minimizing sequence we prove existence of global energy minimizers that connect the two wells at infinity. These minimizers are shown to be the classical solutions of the associated nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau type equation.
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