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A Josephson diode passes current with zero resistance in one direction but is resistive in the other direction. While such an effect has been observed in several platforms, a large and tunable Josephson diode effect has been rare. Here we…

Superconductivity and its potential applications are governed by the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. In the kagome metal CsV3Sb5, most bulk studies indicate conventional s-wave pairing. However, ultrathin flakes exhibit…

The recent observations of the superconducting diode effect pose the challenge to fully understand the necessary ingredients for non-reciprocal phenomena in superconductors. In this theoretical work, we focus on the non-reciprocity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-30 Tatiana de Picoli , Zane Blood , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Jukka I. Väyrynen

Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) has emerged as a novel moir\'e material that exhibits both strong electronic correlations and unconventional superconductivity. However, spectroscopic studies of its electronic properties are…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) enables nonreciprocal dissipationless transport when inversion and time-reversal symmetries are simultaneously broken. Rashba nanowires proximitized by conventional s-wave superconductors provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 Sagar Santra , Dibyendu Samanta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is characterized by its nonreciprocal nature in critical supercurrents. However, realizing a longitudinal SDE typically requires simultaneous time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) and inversion ($\mathcal{P}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Ruo-Peng Yu , Jin-Xin Hu , Zi-Ting Sun

Moir\'e superlattices have recently emerged as a novel platform where correlated physics and superconductivity can be studied with unprecedented tunability. Although correlated effects have been observed in several other moir\'e systems,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-03 Jeong Min Park , Yuan Cao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by a directional asymmetry in the critical supercurrents, typically requires external magnetic fields to break time-reversal symmetry -- posing challenges for scalability and device…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-25 Dibyendu Samanta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

We study the superconducting transport phenomena, involving lensing effect and supercurrent in AA-stacked bilayer graphene, which is characterized by a linear gapless band with two shifted Dirac cones. Our findings indicate that cross…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

Noncentrosymmetric superconductors offer fascinating phenomena of quantum transport and optics such as nonreciprocal and nonlinear responses. Time-reversal symmetry breaking often plays an essential role in the emergence and enhancement of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-31 Hiroto Tanaka , Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase

We show that a planar Josephson junction having $d$-wave superconducting regions, with a skyrmion crystal placed underneath, produces a robust gate-tunable superconducting diode effect. The spatially-varying exchange field of the skyrmion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-04 Digvijay Singh , Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

We investigate the Josephson diode effect in a superconducting interferometer under nonequilibrium conditions. In contrast to its thermodynamic counterpart, which requires the simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel Shaffer , Songci Li , Jaglul Hasan , Mikhail Titov , Alex Levchenko

We report evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in supercurrent for…

The search for superconducting systems exhibiting nonreciprocal transport and, specifically, the diode effect, has proliferated in recent years. This trend encompasses a wide variety of systems, including planar hybrid structures,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Tim Kokkeler , Ilya Tokatly , Sebastian Bergeret

Superconductors that spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry host complex order parameters and are widely regarded as a hallmark of unconventional superconductivity. Whether such symmetry breaking can also arise in superconductors with…

We propose a new type of supercurrent diode effect on the surface of a superconductor with surface states under in-plane magnetic fields. Surface supercurrent diode effect can lead to a perfect supercurrent diode in a considerably wide…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-11 Noah F. Q. Yuan

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) enables nonreciprocal supercurrent flow, holding immense potential for ultra-low-power quantum electronics. Intrinsic SDE typically requires materials with inherent symmetry breakings. Here, we report…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE), combining superconductivity with diode-like nonreciprocal current flow, recently emerges as an ideal candidate for zero-dissipation electronic circuits. Such technologically advantageous diodes are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-03 Zherui Yang , Shengyao Li , Shaoqin Peng , Xueyan Wang , Liang Wu , Ri He , Zhen Wang , Yanwei Cao , Xiao Renshaw Wang

The superconducting diode effect has been recently reported in a variety of systems and different symmetry breaking mechanisms have been examined. However, the frequency range of these potentially important devices still remains obscure. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-23 Sara Chahid , Serafim Teknowijoyo , Iris Mowgood , Armen Gulian

We demonstrate a tunneling and rectification behavior in bilayer graphene. A stepped dielectric top gate creates a spatially modulated electric field, which opens the band gap in the graphene and produces an insulating region at the p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Hisao Miyazaki , Michael Lee , Song-Lin Li , Hidefumi Hiura , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda