Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 ; Center for Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P.R. China - Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract:
This paper is devoted to the study of the eigenvalue problems for the Ginzburg-Landau operator in the entire plane and in the half plane . The estimates for the eigenvalues are obtained and the existence of the associate eigenfunctions is proved when is a non-zero constant. These results are very useful for estimating the first eigenvalue of the Ginzburg-Landau operator with a gauge-invariant boundary condition in a bounded domain, which is closely related to estimates of the upper critical field in the theory of superconductivity.