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 …

Superconducting spintronics

J Linder, JWA Robinson - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on
the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a …

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 …

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 …

Supercurrent diode effect and finite-momentum superconductors

NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a
superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work, we show that, in certain classes of two …

Universal Josephson diode effect

M Davydova, S Prembabu, L Fu - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
We propose a universal mechanism for the Josephson diode effect in short Josephson
junctions. The proposed mechanism is due to finite Cooper pair momentum and is a …

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 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 …

Superconductivity and spin–orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric materials: a review

M Smidman, MB Salamon, HQ Yuan… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, where the crystal structure lacks a centre of
inversion, parity is no longer a good quantum number and an electronic antisymmetric spin …