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 …

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 …

Supercurrent diode effect in helical superconductors

J Hasan, D Shaffer, M Khodas, A Levchenko - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this work, we explore the generalities of the supercurrent diode effect. As an illustrative
example, we examine a model of a two-dimensional superconductor with Rashba-type spin …

Supercurrent rectification with time-reversal symmetry broken multiband superconductors

Y Yerin, SL Drechsler, AA Varlamov, M Cuoco… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We consider nonreciprocal supercurrent effects in Josephson junctions based on multiband
superconductors with a pairing structure that can break time-reversal symmetry. We …

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 …

Current induced hidden states in Josephson junctions

S Chen, S Park, U Vool, N Maksimovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators
below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on …

Superconducting spintronic heat engine

CIL Araujo, P Virtanen, M Spies… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Heat engines are key devices that convert thermal energy into usable energy. Strong
thermoelectricity, at the basis of electrical heat engines, is present in superconducting spin …

Spontaneous superconducting diode effect in non-magnetic Nb/Ru/Sr2RuO4 topological junctions

MS Anwar, T Nakamura, R Ishiguro, S Arif… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-reciprocal electronic transport in a material occurs if both time reversal and inversion
symmetries are broken. The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is an exotic manifestation of …

Superconducting diode effect under time-reversal symmetry

F Liu, YM Itahashi, S Aoki, Y Dong, Z Wang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
In noncentrosymmetric superconductors, superconducting and normal conductions can
interchange on the basis of the current flow direction. This effect is termed a …