Nonlocal electrodynamics of Josephson vortices in superconducting circuits

A review of the main analytical, numerical and experimental results of nonlocal Josephson electrodynamics in different types of junctions is presented. Several mechanisms of nonlocality are discussed. Linear electromagnetic waves and vortices (kinks) propagating along junctions are examined in detail. The main attention is paid to bulk junctions with internal nonlocality and to narrow junctions with geometrical nonlocality. Theoretical conceptions of Cherenkov excitation of plasma waves, discretization of kink velocities and forming of multikinks by binding of elementary vortices are considered. Experimental results for narrow junctions are surveyed. It is shown that the positions of Fiske steps and Cherenkov resonances at current-voltage characteristics which have been obtained in experiments can be properly explained by a nonlocal model that takes into account stray magnetic fields outside the junction.