Thermal production of soliton‐antisoliton pairs in an overdamped driven sine‐Gordon chain occurs through the activation of a critical nucleus. The relevant pair nucleation rate is calculated explicitly by extending Kramers' theory to the case of an infinite dimensional, multistable system with one neutral equilibrium mode.
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