Macroscopic quantum tunneling in globally coupled series arrays of Josephson junctions

Details Macroscopic quantum tunneling in globally coupled series arrays of Josephson junctions Macroscopic quantum tunneling in globally coupled series arrays of Josephson junctions

2006-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608456v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

We present a quantitative analysis of an escape rate for switching from the superconducting state to a resistive one in series arrays of globally coupled Josephson junctions. A global coupling is provided by an external shunting impedance. Such an impedance can strongly suppress both the crossover temperature from the thermal fluctuation to quantum regimes, and the macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in short Josephson junction series arrays. However, in large series arrays we obtain an enhancement of the crossover temperature, and a giant increase of the MQT escape rate. The effect is explained by excitation of a {\it spatial-temporal charge instanton} distributed over a whole structure. The model gives a possible explanation of recently published experimental results on an enhancement of the MQT in single crystals of high-$T_c$ superconductors.

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