Lorentz Space Estimates and Jacobian Convergence for the Ginzburg-Landau Energy with Applied Magnetic Field

Abstract

In this paper we continue the study of Lorentz space estimates for the Ginzburg-Landau energy started in our previous paper, \cite{p1}. We focus on getting estimates for the Ginzburg-Landau energy with external magnetic field $h_{ex}$ in certain interesting regimes of $h_{ex}$. This allows us to show that for configurations close to minimizers or local minimizers of the energy, the vorticity mass of the configuration $(u,A)$ is comparable to the $L^{2,\infty}$ Lorentz space norm of $\nabla_A u$. We also establish convergence of the gauge-invariant Jacobians (vorticity measures) in the dual of a function space defined in terms of Lorentz spaces.