Cooper-Pair Number-Phase Quantization for a Mesoscopic LC Circuit Including a Josephson Junction

By introducing the entangled state representation and Feynman assumption that `electron pairs are bosons, ..., a bound pair acts as a Bose particle', we construct an operator Hamiltonian for a mesoscopic inductance-capacitance (LC) circuit including a Josephson junction, then we use the Heisenberg equation of motion to derive the current equation and the voltage equation across the inductance as well as across the Josephson junction. The result manifestly shows how the junction voltage is affected by the capacitance coupling. In this way the Cooper-pair number-phase quantization for this system is completed.