The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Material platforms for defect qubits and single-photon emitters

G Zhang, Y Cheng, JP Chou, A Gali - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum technology has grown out of quantum information theory and now provides a
valuable tool that researchers from numerous fields can add to their toolbox of research …

Supercurrent rectification and magnetochiral effects in symmetric Josephson junctions

C Baumgartner, L Fuchs, A Costa, S Reinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transport is non-reciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current
depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion …

dc Josephson effect in altermagnets

JA Ouassou, A Brataas, J Linder - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
The ability of magnetic materials to modify superconductors is an active research area for
possible applications in thermoelectricity, quantum sensing, and spintronics. We consider …

Zero-field polarity-reversible Josephson supercurrent diodes enabled by a proximity-magnetized Pt barrier

KR Jeon, JK Kim, J Yoon, JC Jeon, H Han, A Cottet… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries in a conductor yields a
non-reciprocal electronic transport,–, known as the diode or rectification effect, that is, low …

A phenomenological theory of superconductor diodes

JJ He, Y Tanaka, N Nagaosa - New Journal of Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric systems contain a broad range of
phenomena. Especially, non-dissipative and coherent nonreciprocal transport in solids is an …

Theory of the supercurrent diode effect in Rashba superconductors with arbitrary disorder

S Ilić, FS Bergeret - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We calculate the nonreciprocal critical current and quantify the supercurrent diode effect in
two-dimensional Rashba superconductors with arbitrary disorder, using the quasiclassical …

General theory of Josephson diodes

Y Zhang, Y Gu, P Li, J Hu, K Jiang - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Motivated by recent progress in the superconductivity nonreciprocal phenomena, we study
the general theory of Josephson diodes. The central ingredient for Josephson diodes is the …

Sign reversal of the Josephson inductance magnetochiral anisotropy and 0–π-like transitions in supercurrent diodes

A Costa, C Baumgartner, S Reinhardt, J Berger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in
a rich variety of systems, has shown that non-reciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge …

Theory of zero-field superconducting diode effect in twisted trilayer graphene

HD Scammell, JIA Li, MS Scheurer - 2D Materials, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In a recent experiment (Lin et al 2021 arxiv: 2112.07841 [cond-mat. str-el]), the
superconducting phase hosted by a heterostructure of mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer …