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 …

Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

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 …

Majorana nanowires for topological quantum computation

P Marra - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Majorana bound states are quasiparticle excitations localized at the boundaries of a
topologically nontrivial superconductor. They are zero-energy, charge-neutral, particle–hole …

Superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures: a platform for superconducting spintronics and quantum computation

R Cai, I Žutić, W Han - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the superconductor/
ferromagnet (SC/FM) heterostructures generates many interesting physical phenomena …

Cubic spin-orbit coupling and anomalous Josephson effect in planar junctions

M Alidoust, C Shen, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and
Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a …

Local and nonlocal transport spectroscopy in planar Josephson junctions

A Banerjee, O Lesser, MA Rahman, C Thomas… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We report simultaneously acquired local and nonlocal transport spectroscopy in a phase-
biased planar Josephson junction based on an epitaxial InAs-Al hybrid two-dimensional …

Microscopic study of the Josephson supercurrent diode effect in Josephson junctions based on two-dimensional electron gas

A Costa, J Fabian, D Kochan - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Superconducting systems that simultaneously lack space-inversion and time-reversal
symmetries have recently been the subject of a flurry of experimental and theoretical …

Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

Link between supercurrent diode and anomalous Josephson effect revealed by gate-controlled interferometry

S Reinhardt, T Ascherl, A Costa, J Berger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In Josephson diodes the asymmetry between positive and negative current branch of the
current-phase relation leads to a polarity-dependent critical current and Josephson …