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On germs of constriction curves in model of overdamped Josephson junction, dynamical isomonodromic foliation and Painlevé 3 equation
Alexey Glutsyukabc a CNRS, UMR 5669 (UMPA, ENS de Lyon), France
b HSE University, Moscow, Russia
c Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP, RAS), Moscow
Abstract:
B. Josephson (Nobel Prize, 1973) predicted a
tunnelling effect for a system of two superconductors separated by a narrow dielectric (such a system is called
Josephson junction): existence of a supercurrent through it and equations governing it. The
overdamped Josephson junction is modeled by a family of differential equations on
$2$-torus depending on
$3$ parameters:
$B$ (abscissa),
$A$ (ordinate),
$\omega$ (frequency). We study its
rotation number $\rho(B,A;\omega)$ as a function of parameters. The
three-dimensional phase-lock areas are the level sets
$L_r:=\{\rho=r\}\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with non-empty interiors; they exist for
$r\in\mathbb{Z}$ (Buchstaber, Karpov, Tertychnyi). For every fixed
$\omega>0$ and
$r\in\mathbb{Z}$ the planar slice
$L_r\cap(\mathbb{R}^2_{B,A}\times\{\omega\})$ is a garland of domains going vertically to infinity and separated by points; those separating points for which
$A\neq0$ are called
constrictions. In a joint paper by Yu. Bibilo and the author, it was shown that 1) at each constriction the rescaled abscissa
$\ell:=\frac B\omega$ is integer and
$\ell=\rho$; 2) the family
$\mathrm{Constr}_\ell$ of constrictions with given
$\ell\in\mathbb{Z}$ is an analytic submanifold in
$\mathbb{R}^2_+)_{a,s}$,
$a=\omega^{-1}$,
$s=\frac A\omega$. In the present paper we show that 1) the limit points of
$\mathrm{Constr}_\ell$ are
$\beta_{\ell,k}=(0,s_{\ell,k})$, where
$s_{\ell,k}$ are the positive zeros of the
$\ell$-th Bessel function
$J_\ell(s)$; 2) to each
$\beta_{\ell,k}$ accumulates exactly one its component
$\mathcal{C}_{\ell,k}$ (constriction curve), and it lands at
$\beta_{\ell,k}$ regularly. Known numerical phase-lock area pictures show that high components of interior of each phase-lock area
$L_r$ look similar. In his paper with Bibilo, the author introduced a candidate to the self-similarity map between neighbor components: the Poincaré map of the dynamical isomonodromic foliation governed by Painlevé 3 equation. Whenever well defined, it preserves the rotation number function. We show that the Poincaré map is well defined on a neighborhood of the plane $\{ a=0\}\subset\mathbb{R}^2_{\ell,a}\times(\mathbb{R}_+)_s$, and it sends each constriction curve germ
$(\mathcal{C}_{\ell,k},\beta_{\ell,k})$ to
$(\mathcal{C}_{\ell,k+1},\beta_{\ell,k+1})$.
Key words and phrases:
josephson junction, differential equations on torus, rotation number, phase-lock areas, linear systems of complex differential equations, monodromy operator, Stokes matrices, isomonodromic deformations, Painlevé 3 equation.
MSC: 34M03,
34A26,
34E15
Language: English