A Hierarchy of Models for Type-II Superconductors

A hierarchy of models for type-II superconductors is presented. Through appropriate asymptotic limits we pass from the mesoscopic Ginzburg--Landau model to the London model with isolated superconducting vortices as line singularities, to vortex-density models, and finally to macroscopic critical-state models.

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