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Query: Metastability in Josephson transmission lines   Thermal activation and macroscopic quantum tunneling in current-biased
discrete Josephson transmission lines are studied theoretically. The degrees of
freedom under consideration are the phases across the junctions which are
coupled to each other via the inductances of the system. The resistively
shunted junctions that we investigate constitute a system of N interacting
degrees of freedom with an overdamped dynamics. We calculate the decay rate
within exponential accuracy as a function of temperature and current. Slightly
below the critical current, the decay from the metastable state occurs via a
unique ("rigid") saddlepoint solution of the Euclidean action describing the
simultaneous decay of the phases in all the junctions. When the current is
reduced, a crossover to a regime takes place, where the decay occurs via an
"elastic" saddlepoint solution and the phases across the junctions leave the
metastable state one after another. This leads to an increased decay rate
compared with the rigid case both in the thermal and the quantum regime. The
rigid-to-elastic crossover can be sharp or smooth analogous to first- or
second- order phase transitions, respectively. The various regimes are
summarized in a current-temperature decay diagram.

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