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 …

Nonreciprocal transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials

N Nagaosa, Y Yanase - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe2

L Bauriedl, C Bäuml, L Fuchs, C Baumgartner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias
polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems …

Field-free superconducting diode effect in noncentrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers

H Narita, J Ishizuka, R Kawarazaki, D Kan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The diode effect is fundamental to electronic devices and is widely used in rectifiers and ac–
dc converters. At low temperatures, however, conventional semiconductor diodes possess a …

Intrinsic superconducting diode effect

A Daido, Y Ikeda, Y Yanase - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Stimulated by the recent experiment [F. Ando, Nature (London) 584, 373 (2020). NATUAS
0028-0836 10.1038/s41586-020-2590-4], we propose an intrinsic mechanism to cause the …

Altermagnetic superconducting diode effect

S Banerjee, MS Scheurer - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Nonreciprocal superconductivity, also known as the superconducting diode effect, has been
extensively studied in the presence of a magnetic field or some form of ferromagnetic order …

Demonstration of a superconducting diode-with-memory, operational at zero magnetic field with switchable nonreciprocity

T Golod, VM Krasnov - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Diode is one of the basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response,
associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of …

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 …

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

Superconducting diode effect due to magnetochiral anisotropy in topological insulators and Rashba nanowires

HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to
magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an …