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 …

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 …

Asymmetric higher-harmonic SQUID as a Josephson diode

YV Fominov, DS Mikhailov - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate asymmetric two-junction SQUIDs with different current-phase
relations in the two Josephson junctions, involving higher Josephson harmonics. Our main …

[HTML][HTML] Non-reciprocity of vortex-limited critical current in conventional superconducting micro-bridges

D Suri, A Kamra, TNG Meier, M Kronseder… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Non-reciprocity in the critical current has been observed in a variety of superconducting
systems and has been called the superconducting diode effect. The origin underlying the …

Field-free anomalous junction and superconducting diode effect in spin-split superconductor/topological insulator junctions

TH Kokkeler, AA Golubov, FS Bergeret - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the transport properties of a diffusive Josephson junction between two spin-split
superconductors (SCs) made of SC-ferromagnetic insulator bilayers on top of a three …

Tunable Josephson diode effect on the surface of topological insulators

B Lu, S Ikegaya, P Burset, Y Tanaka, N Nagaosa - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The Josephson rectification effect, where the resistance is finite in one direction while zero in
the other, has been recently realized experimentally. The resulting Josephson diode has …

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 …

Field-free Josephson diode effect in altermagnet/normal metal/altermagnet junctions

Q Cheng, Y Mao, QF Sun - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The field-free and highly efficient diodes with the nonreciprocity of supercurrent are believed
to be the core block of superconducting computing devices without dissipation. In this paper …

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 …

Superconducting diode effect in quasi-one-dimensional systems

T de Picoli, Z Blood, Y Lyanda-Geller, JI Väyrynen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The recent observations of the superconducting diode effect pose the challenge to fully
understand the necessary ingredients for nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductors. In …