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Algebraic canonical quantization of lumped superconducting networks

Quantum Physics 2022-09-13 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We present a systematic canonical quantization procedure for lumped-element superconducting networks by making use of a redundant configuration-space description. The algorithm is based on an original, explicit, and constructive implementation of the symplectic diagonalization of positive semidefinite Hamiltonian matrices, a particular instance of Williamson's theorem. With it, we derive canonically quantized discrete-variable descriptions of passive causal systems. We exemplify the algorithm with representative singular electrical networks, a nonreciprocal extension for the black-box quantization method, as well as an archetypal Landau quantization problem.

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@article{arxiv.2203.06167,
  title  = {Algebraic canonical quantization of lumped superconducting networks},
  author = {I. L. Egusquiza and A. Parra-Rodriguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06167},
  year   = {2022}
}

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24 pages. 6 Figures