The helical vortex filaments of Ginzburg-Landau system in ${\mathbb R}^3$

TL;DR

This paper constructs solutions with multiple interacting vortex helices in a coupled Ginzburg-Landau system in three dimensions, extending known phenomena from the classical equation and addressing a conjecture related to the Allen-Cahn equation.

Contribution

It introduces a method to construct entire solutions with vortex helices in a coupled Ginzburg-Landau system, revealing new interaction phenomena and providing a negative answer to the Gibbons conjecture in this context.

Findings

Existence of solutions with multiple vortex helices

Extension of vortex filament interactions to coupled systems

Negative resolution of the Gibbons conjecture for this system

Abstract

We consider the following coupled Ginzburg-Landau system in ${\mathbb R}^3$ \begin{align*} \begin{cases} -\epsilon^2 \Delta w^+ +\Big[A_+\big(|w^+|^2-{t^+}^2\big)+B\big(|w^-|^2-{t^-}^2\big)\Big]w^+=0, \\[3mm] -\epsilon^2 \Delta w^- +\Big[A_-\big(|w^-|^2-{t^-}^2\big)+B\big(|w^+|^2-{t^+}^2\big)\Big]w^-=0, \end{cases} \end{align*} where $w=(w^+, w^-)\in \mathbb{C}^2$ and the constant coefficients satisfy $$ A_+, A_->0,\quad B^2<A_+A_-, \quad t^\pm >0, \quad {t^+}^2+{ t^-}^2=1. $$ If $B<0$, then for every $\epsilon$ small enough, we construct a family of entire solutions $w_\epsilon (\tilde{z}, t)\in \mathbb{C}^2$ in the cylindrical coordinates $(\tilde{z}, t)\in \mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ for this system via the approach introduced by J. D\'avila, M. del Pino, M. Medina and R. Rodiac in {\tt arXiv:1901.02807}. These solutions are $2\pi$-periodic in $t$ and have multiple interacting vortex helices. The main results are the extensions of the phenomena of interacting helical vortex filaments for the classical (single) Ginzburg-Landau equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$ which has been studied in {\tt arXiv:1901.02807}. Our results negatively answer the Gibbons conjecture \cite{Gibbons conjecture} for the Allen-Cahn equation in Ginzburg-Landau system version, which is an extension of the question originally proposed by H. Brezis.