Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics
Number-phase quantization scheme for LC circuit and Josephson junction's Cooper pairs
Liang Bao-Long
Abstract
Traditionally, the quantization scheme for a mesoscopic LC circuit lies in that electric charge q and electric current L×I are respectively quantized as the coordinate operator Q and momentum operator P. A new quantization scheme is proposed in which number n of the electric charge q(q=en) is quantized as the charge number operator and the relation between electric current and phase operatorθcan be derived, in this way the quantization of mesoscopic LC circuit in the context of number-phase is realized and the corresponding Hamiltonian is obtained. The results show that the Cooper pair number-phase-difference quantization scheme is also available for Josephson junction after introducing the entangled state representation.