Motion of vortex-filaments for superconductivity Original Research Article

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the simplified Ginzburg–Landau model for superconductivity. We prove that, asymptotically, vortex-filaments evolves according to the mean curvature flow in the sense of weak formulation. This can be seen as a first attempt to understand the nature of the motion of vortex filaments in three dimensions with magnetic field. On the other hand, this paper revisits the pioneering work of Bethuel–Orlandi–Smets [F. Bethuel, G. Orlandi, D. Smets, Convergence of the parabolic Ginzburg–Landau equation to motion by mean curvature, Ann. of Math. 163 (2006) 37–163] in a slightly relaxed setting.