Convergence of minimizers with local energy bounds for the Ginzburg-Landau functionals Sisto BaldoGiandomenico OrlandiS. Weitkamp 49J4535J6049Q0558E50$\Gamma$-convergenceGinzburg-Landauvorticesminimal surfaces We study the asymptotic behaviour, as $\epsilon \to 0$, of a sequence $\{u_{\epsilon}\}$ of minimizers for the Ginzburg-Landau functional which satisfies local energy bounds of order $|\log \epsilon|$. The jacobians $Ju_{\epsilon}$ are shown to converge, in a suitable sense and up to subsequences, to an area minimizing minimal surface of codimension $2$. This is achieved without assumptions on the global energy of the sequence or on the boundary data, and holds even for unbounded domains. The proof is based on an improved version of the $\Gamma$-convergence results from [G. Alberti, S. Baldo, and G. Orlandi, \emph{Variational convergence for functionals of Ginzburg-Landau type}, Indiana Univ. Math. J. \textbf{54} (2005 (5)), 1411--1472}. Indiana University Mathematics Journal 2009 text pdf 10.1512/iumj.2009.58.3571 10.1512/iumj.2009.58.3571 en Indiana Univ. Math. J. 58 (2009) 2369 - 2408 state-of-the-art mathematics http://iumj.org/access/