EXACT SOLUTION AT INTEGRABLE COUPLING OF A MODEL FOR THE JOSEPHSON EFFECT BETWEEN SMALL METALLIC GRAINS

JON LINKS, HUAN-QIANG ZHOU, ROSS H. MCKENZIE, MARK D. GOULD
2002 International Journal of Modern Physics B  
A model is introduced for two reduced BCS systems which are coupled through the transfer of Cooper pairs between the systems. The model may thus be used in the analysis of the Josephson effect arising from pair tunneling between two strongly coupled small metallic grains. At a particular coupling strength the model is integrable and explicit results are derived for the energy spectrum, conserved operators, integrals of motion, and wave function scalar products. It is also shown that form
more » ... can be obtained for the calculation of correlation functions. Further, a connection with perturbed conformal field theory is made.
doi:10.1142/s0217979202011949 fatcat:hswg3q4nm5ak7g7l7ket3yhq5e