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A superconductor with broken time reversal and inversion symmetry may exhibit nonreciprocal charge transport, including a nonreciprocal critical current, also known as superconducting diode effect. We report an intrinsic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-30 Robert Kealhofer , Hanbyeol Jeong , Arman Rashidi , Leon Balents , Susanne Stemmer

We demonstrate experimentally that the presence of a single domain wall in an underlying ferromagnetic BaFe_{12}O_{19} substrate can induce a considerable asymmetry in the current (I) - voltage (V) characteristics of a superconducting Al…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-10 A. Yu. Aladyshkin , D. Yu. Vodolazov , J. Fritzsche , R. B. G. Kramer , V. V. Moshchalkov

Symmetry-breaking plays a pivotal role in unlocking intriguing properties and functionalities in material systems. For example, the breaking of spatial and temporal symmetries leads to a fascinating phenomenon of superconducting diode…

We study the effect of the Fermi surface anisotropy on the odd-frequency spin-triplet pairing component of the induced pair potential. We consider a superconductor/ ferromagnetic insulator (S/FI) hybrid structure formed on the 3D…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-02 A. S. Vasenko , A. A. Golubov , V. M. Silkin , E. V. Chulkov

We theoretically investigate current-induced spin polarization in disordered topological insulator thin films with broken inversion symmetry under an applied in-plane electric field. Utilizing the Kubo formalism within the self-consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Maryam Heydari , Hanieh Moghaddasi , Mir Vahid Hosseini , Mehdi Askari

The field-angular dependence and anisotropy of the critical current density in iron-based superconductors is evaluated using a phenomenological approach featuring distinct anisotropy factors for the penetration depth and the coherence…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-20 Cornelis Jacominus van der Beek , Marcin Konczykowski , Ruslan Prozorov

Cubic materials host high crystal symmetry and hence are not expected to support anisotropy in transport phenomena. In contrast to this common expectation, here we report an anomalous anisotropy of spin current can emerge in the (001) film…

We examine the long-wavelength current response in anisotropic superconductors and show how the field-dependence of the Meissner penetration length can be used to detect the structure of the order parameter. Nodes in the excitation gap lead…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Xu , S. K. Yip , J. A. Sauls

An experimental review on the influence of nonlocal electrodynamics in the vortex pinning properties of non-magnetic borocarbide superconductors is presented. We show that the pinning force density Fp exhibits a rich and complex anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Silhanek , J. R. Thompson , L. Civale , S. L. Bud'ko , P. Canfield

Spin-polarized antiferromagnets (AFMs), including altermagnets, noncollinear AFMs, and two-dimensional layer-polarized AFMs, have emerged as transformative materials for next-generation spintronic and optoelectronic technologies. These…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Zhenzhou Guo , Xiaotian Wang , Wenhong Wang , Gang Zhang , Xiaodong Zhou , Zhenxiang Cheng

Supercurrent diodes are nonreciprocal electronic elements whose switching current depends on their flow direction. Recently, a variety of composite systems combining different materials and engineered asymmetric superconducting devices have…

Tunneling conductance spectroscopy in normal metal-superconductor junctions is an important tool for probing Andreev bound states in mesoscopic superconducting devices, such as Majorana nanowires. In an ideal superconducting device, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 André Melo , Chun-Xiao Liu , Piotr Rożek , Tómas Örn Rosdahl , Michael Wimmer

By investigating the nonequilibrium transport across a metal/superconductor junction in both nonrelativistic and relativistic cases, we reveal that the asymmetric Andreev reflection with anisotropic superconductors is able to induce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu

High-temperature superconductors (HTS) are finding use as high - current wires for potential application in power devices. The dependence of their basal-plane critical current properties on orientation in a magnetic field can pose important…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. L. Zuev , D. K. Christen , S. H. Wee , A. Goyal , S. W. Cook

We demonstrate that tunable attractive (bonding) and repulsive (anti-bonding) forces can arise in highly asymmetric structures coupled to external radiation, a consequence of the bonding/anti-bonding level repulsion of guided-wave…

Domain wall propagation has been measured in continuous, weakly disordered, quasi-two-dimensional, Ising-like magnetic layers that are subject to spatially periodic domain wall pinning potentials. The potentials are generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 P. J. Metaxas , P. -J. Zermatten , R. L. Novak , S. Rohart , J. -P. Jamet , R. Weil , J. Ferré , A. Mougin , R. L. Stamps , G. Gaudin , V. Baltz , B. Rodmacq

We study the magnetic properties of a superconductor in a crystal without $z \to -z$ symmetry, in particular how the lack of this symmetry exhibits itself. We show that, though the penetration depth itself shows no such effect, for suitable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -K. Yip

In the hard core limit, interacting vortices in planar type II superconductors can be modeled as non-interacting one dimensional fermions propagating in imaginary time. We use this analogy to derive analytical expressions for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Eleni Katifori , David R. Nelson

Superconductivity on the surface of topological insulators is known to be anisotropic and unconventional in that the symmetry is the mixture of s-wave and nodeless p-wave component. In contrast to Anderson's theorem for the insensitivity of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-18 Yuto Ito , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

We theoretically investigate an extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) in semiconductor heterostructures due to the scattering by an artificial potential created by antidot, STM tip, etc. The potential is electrically tunable. First, we formulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama