Mean Field Theory of Josephson Junction Arrays with Charge Frustration

Details Mean Field Theory of Josephson Junction Arrays with Charge Frustration Mean Field Theory of Josephson Junction Arrays with Charge Frustration

1999-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9902183v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

LaTex, 24 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.61.11676

Using the path integral approach, we provide an explicit derivation of the equation for the phase boundary for quantum Josephson junction arrays with offset charges and non-diagonal capacitance matrix. For the model with nearest neighbor capacitance matrix and uniform offset charge $q/2e=1/2$, we determine, in the low critical temperature expansion, the most relevant contributions to the equation for the phase boundary. We explicitly construct the charge distributions on the lattice corresponding to the lowest energies. We find a reentrant behavior even with a short ranged interaction. A merit of the path integral approach is that it allows to provide an elegant derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy for a general model with charge frustration and non-diagonal capacitance matrix. The partition function factorizes as a product of a topological term, depending only on a set of integers, and a non-topological one, which is explicitly evaluated.

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