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The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

Nonreciprocal phenomena in the normal state are well established and key to many commercial applications. In contrast, superconducting analogs, such as the superconducting diode effect (SDE), are only starting to be experimentally explored…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-22 Denis Kochan , Andreas Costa , Iaroslav Zhumagulov , Igor Žutić

Despite metals are believed to be insensitive to field-effect and conventional Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theories predict the electric field to be ineffective on conventional superconductors, a number of gating experiments showed the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Paolo Solinas , Elia Strambini , Claudio Puglia , Nadia Ligato , Francesco Giazotto

We study the critical current of a S/F-I-N/S tunnel structure - a proximity coupled superconductor (S) with thin ferromagnetic (F) and nonmagnetic (N) metals separated by an insulating (I) barrier - in an external magnetic field. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Krivoruchko , E. A. Koshina

We investigate the emergence of nonreciprocal dissipationless supercurrents in one-dimension manifested through the superconducting diode effect (SDE) and the Josephson diode effect (JDE) in the absence of any external magnetic field, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 SVS Sai Ruthvik , Tanay Nag

An interlayer distance modulation in twisted bilayer graphene is reported. This is achieved by an in-situ annealing technique. The transformation of systematic vacuum and hydrogen annealing effects in twisted bilayer CVD graphene on SiO2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Jothiramalingam Kulothungan , Manoharan Muruganathan , Hiroshi Mizuta

Two-dimensional superconductors have been realized in various atomically thin films such as the twisted bilayer graphene, some of which are anticipated to involve unconventional pairing mechanism. Due to their low dimensionality,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 Xiaodong Hu , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

We theoretically propose a universal superconducting diode device based on double magnetic impurities which are coupled to the connection region of the Josephson junction. The positive and negative currents flowing across the junction can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device exhibits the Josephson diode effect, with switching currents that…

We study the electron/hole transport in puddle-disordered and rough graphene samples which are subject to in-plane magnetic fields. Previous treatments, mostly devoted to regimes where the electron/hole scattering wavelengths are larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 R. R. Brandão , L. Moriconi

We present a microscopic derivation of the effect of current flow on a system near a superconductor-metal quantum critical point. The model studied is a 2d itinerant electron system where the electrons interact via an attractive interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Aditi Mitra

Extensive investigations on the Moir\'e magic-angle have been conducted in twisted bilayer graphene, unlocking the mystery of unconventional superconductivity and insulating states. In analog to magic angle, here we demonstrate the new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Qingxiang Ji , Bohan Li , Johan Christensen , Changguo Wang , Muamer Kadic

We propose a superconducting diode device comprising a central superconducting film flanked by two wires carrying an applied DC bias, suitably chosen so as to generate different asymmetric field profiles. Through numerical simulations of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-24 Leonardo Rodrigues Cadorim , Edson Sardella , Clécio Clemente de Souza Silva

We consider a Josephson junction with ${\rm F_1 F_2 F_3}$ ferromagnetic trilayers in the ballistic regime, where the magnetization in each ferromagnet ${\rm F}_i (i=1,2,3)$, can have arbitrary orientations and magnetization strengths. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-06 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust , Ross Smith , Spencer Starr

The critical current of a thin superconducting strip of width $W$ much larger than the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length $\xi$ but much smaller than the Pearl length $\Lambda = 2 \lambda^2/d$ is maximized when the strip is straight with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 John R. Clem , Yasunori Mawatari , G. R. Berdiyorov , F. M. Peeters

Back-action refers to a response that retro-acts on a system to tailor its properties with respect to an external stimulus. This effect is at the heart of many electronic devices such as amplifiers, oscillators, and sensors. Here, we…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of single atomic layers, have attracted vast research interest since the breakthrough discovery of graphene. One major benefit of such systems is the simple ability to tune the chemical potential by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-01 Gopi Nath Daptary , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductors are exotic phases of matter with fascinating properties, which are, however, encountered rather sparsely. Here we identify the possibility of realizing such a superconducting ground state that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

Motivated by the recent proposals for unconventional emergent physics in twisted bilayers of nodal superconductors, we study the peculiarities of the Josephson effect at the twisted interface between $d$-wave superconductors. We demonstrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-31 Pavel A. Volkov , Shu Yang Frank Zhao , Nicola Poccia , Xiaomeng Cui , Philip Kim , J. H. Pixley

DC and finite frequency transport measurements of thin films of amorphous indium oxide that were driven through the critical point of superconductor-insulator transition by the application of perpendicular magnetic field are presented. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Sambandamurthy , N. Peter Armitage