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 …

Parity-conserving Cooper-pair transport and ideal superconducting diode in planar germanium

M Valentini, O Sagi, L Baghumyan, T de Gijsel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Superconductor/semiconductor hybrid devices have attracted increasing interest in the past
years. Superconducting electronics aims to complement semiconductor technology, while …

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 …

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 …

Enhanced superconducting diode effect due to coexisting phases

S Banerjee, MS Scheurer - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The superconducting diode effect refers to an asymmetry in the critical supercurrent J c (n^)
along opposite directions, J c (n^)≠ J c (-n^). While the basic symmetry requirements for this …

Enhancing the Josephson diode effect with Majorana bound states

J Cayao, N Nagaosa, Y Tanaka - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external
magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of …

Nonsinusoidal current-phase relations in semiconductor–superconductor–ferromagnetic insulator devices

A Maiani, K Flensberg, M Leijnse, C Schrade… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Coherent tunneling processes of multiple Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction give
rise to high harmonics in the current phase relation. In this work, we propose and study …

Interference, diffraction, and diode effects in superconducting array based on bismuth antimony telluride topological insulator

X Song, S Suresh Babu, Y Bai, DS Golubev… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
It is well-known in optics that the spectroscopic resolution of a diffraction grating is much
better compared to an interference device having just two slits, as in Young's famous double …

Microwave-tunable diode effect in asymmetric SQUIDs with topological Josephson junctions

JJ Cuozzo, W Pan, J Shabani, E Rossi - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
In superconducting systems in which inversion and time-reversal symmetry are
simultaneously broken the critical current for positive and negative current bias can be …

Tuning the Josephson diode response with an ac current

R Seoane Souto, M Leijnse, C Schrade, M Valentini… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Josephson diodes are superconducting elements that show an asymmetry in the critical
current depending on the direction of the current. Here, we theoretically explore how an …