Sharp upper bounds for a singular perturbation problem related to micromagnetics

Poliakovsky, Arkady

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 6 (2007) no. 4, pp. 673-701

Résumé

We construct an upper bound for the following family of functionals ${\left\{E_{\epsilon }\right\}}_{\epsilon >0}$, which arises in the study of micromagnetics:

$$E_{\epsilon }\left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }{\epsilon \left|\nabla u\right|}^2+\frac{1}{\epsilon }{\int }_{{ℝ}^2}{\left|H_u\right|}^2.$$

Here $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^2$, $u\in H^1(\Omega ,S^1)$ (corresponding to the magnetization) and $H_u$, the demagnetizing field created by $u$, is given by

$$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}\mathrm{div}(\tilde{u}+H_u)=0\hfill & \text{in}{ℝ}^2,\hfill \\ \mathrm{curl}{H}_u=0\hfill & \text{in}{ℝ}^2,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$

where $\tilde{u}$ is the extension of $u$ by $0$ in ${ℝ}^2\setminus \Omega$. Our upper bound coincides with the lower bound obtained by Rivière and Serfaty.

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Classification : 49J45, 35B25, 35J20