Third Quantization for Order Parameters (II): Local Field Quantization in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24092v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:31:14 GMT
• Title: Third Quantization for Order Parameters (II): Local Field Quantization in Superconducting Quantum Circuits
• Abstract summary: This work starts from the microscopic pairing Hamiltonian underlying BCS superconductivity.<n>We establish quantitative relations between macroscopic observables, including current and voltage, and the spatially local superconducting phase.<n>We show that, after restriction to the low-energy excitation subspace, the local superconducting phase becomes a genuine quantum dynamical variable.
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• Abstract: The quantization of superconducting transmission-line resonators is usually introduced phenomenologically by modeling the resonator as an effective LC circuit and imposing canonical commutation relations on macroscopic variables such as charge and flux. Although this approach is highly successful, it leaves open why these macroscopic variables should obey quantum commutation relations and how this behavior emerges from the superconducting state. In this work, starting from the microscopic pairing Hamiltonian underlying BCS superconductivity, we derive the low-energy effective Hamiltonian of a circuit-QED architecture containing a superconducting transmission line with distributed capacitive and inductive elements. We establish quantitative relations between macroscopic observables, including current and voltage, and the spatially local superconducting phase, as well as the microscopic parameters of the electron-phonon system. We then extend the third quantization of the superconducting order parameter, introduced in Paper (I) for the global phase, to the spatially local case. This gives a macroscopic field quantization of the superconducting phase. We show that, after restriction to the low-energy excitation subspace, the local superconducting phase becomes a genuine quantum dynamical variable. Thus, the quantum behavior of transmission-line resonators need not be postulated at the macroscopic level, but follows from the third quantization of the superconducting order parameter. These results suggest that capacitive and inductive superconducting circuit elements share the same microscopic origin, providing a unified framework for superconducting circuit quantization.

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