Non-London electrodynamics in a multiband London model: anisotropy-induced non-localities and multiple magnetic field penetration lengths

Abstract

The London model describes strongly type-2 superconductors as massive vector field theories, where the magnetic field decays exponentially at the length scale of the London penetration length. This also holds for isotropic multi-band extensions, where the presence of multiple bands merely renormalises the London penetration length. We show that, by contrast, the magnetic properties of anisotropic multi-band London models are not this simple, and the anisotropy leads to the inter-band phase differences becoming coupled to the magnetic field. This results in the magnetic field in such systems having N+1 penetration lengths, where N is the number of field components or bands. That is, in a given direction, the magnetic field decay is described by N+1 modes with different amplitudes and different decay length scales. For certain anisotropies we obtain magnetic modes with complex masses. That means that magnetic field decay is not described by a monotonic exponential increment set by a real penetration length but instead is oscillating. Some of the penetration lengths are shown to diverge away from the superconducting phase transition when the mass of the phase-difference mode vanishes. Finally the anisotropy-driven hybridization of the London mode with the Leggett modes can provide an effectively non-local magnetic response in the nominally local London model. Focusing on the two-component model, we discuss the magnetic field inversion that results from the effective non-locality, both near the surface of the superconductor and around vortices. In the regime where the magnetic field decay becomes non-monotonic, the multiband London superconductor is shown to form weakly-bound states of vortices.

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