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The significance of the superconducting diode effect lies in its potential application as a fundamental component in the development of next-generation superconducting circuit technology. The stringent operating conditions at low…

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In noncentrosymmetric superconductors, superconducting and normal conductions can interchange based on the current flow direction. This effect is termed a superconducting diode effect (SDE), which is a focal point of recent research. The…

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…

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

Recently, a theoretical study [Li {\it et al.},~npj Quantum Materials 6, 36 (2021)] investigated a model of a disordered $d$-wave superconductor, and reported local time-reversal symmetry breaking current loops for sufficiently high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-05 Clara N. Breiø , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

Chiral topological semimetals host multifold degenerate band crossing points under the protection of crystalline symmetries. In this paper, we suggest that the recently discovered chiral topological semimetals in space group 198, parts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yingyi Huang , Shao-Kai Jian

Spontaneous generation of time-reversal symmetry breaking in unconventional superconductors is currently a topic of considerable interest. While chiral superconducting order is often assumed to be the source of such signatures, they can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-11 Clara N. Breiø , Andreas Kreisel , Mercè Roig , P. J. Hirschfeld , Brian M. Andersen

We develop a detailed microscopic analysis of electron transport in normal diffusive conductors in the presence of proximity induced superconducting correlation. We calculated the linear conductance of the system, the profile of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. A. Golubov , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin

We present a gauge-invariant theory of the electromagnetic response of a chiral px+ipy superconductor in the clean limit. Due to the spontaneously broken time-reversal symmetry, the effective action of the system contains an anomalous term…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-15 Roman M. Lutchyn , Pavel Nagornykh , Victor M. Yakovenko

We consider nonreciprocal supercurrent effects in Josephson junctions based on multiband superconductors with a pairing structure that can break time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that a nonreciprocal supercurrent can be generally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-12 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , A. A. Varlamov , Mario Cuoco , Francesco Giazotto

Nonreciprocal superconductivity, also called as superconducting diode effect that spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry, is characterized by asymmetric critical currents under opposite applied current directions. This distinct state…

We describe the superconducting proximity effect taking place in a contact between a noncentrosymmetric superconductor and a diffusive normal/ferromagnetic metal within the quasiclassical theory of superconductivity. By solving numerically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-26 Gaetano Annunziata , Dirk Manske , Jacob Linder

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

It has been proposed that the superconductivity of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is characterized by pairing that is unconventional and, furthermore, spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry. However, one of the key expected consequences, viz., that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-12 David G. Ferguson , Paul M. Goldbart

We demonstrate that in metals, both normal and superconducting, orbital currents present in the ground state when time reversal symmetry (TRS) is broken, generate spin chirality. Nonzero chirality can emerge in the absence of any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Archisman Panigrahi , Vladislav Poliakov , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

A superconducting diode is an electronic device that conducts supercurrent and exhibits zero resistance primarily for one direction of applied current. Such a dissipationless diode is a desirable unit for constructing electronic circuits…

Inversion and time reversal are essential symmetries for the structure of Cooper pairs in superconductors. The loss of one or both leads to modifications to this structure and can change the properties of the superconducting phases in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-21 Mark H Fischer , Manfred Sigrist , Daniel F Agterberg , Youichi Yanase

We theoretically study the superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson junction. The diode effect in superconducting systems is typically related to the presence of a difference in the critical currents for currents flowing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-07 Jorge Huamani Correa , Michal P. Nowak

We investigate nonreciprocal supercurrent phenomena in superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that integrate Josephson junctions with single and multiband order parameters, which may exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-30 Yuriy Yerin , Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler , A. A. Varlamov , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

Although the BCS theory of superconductivity is a well established theory, we have shown that the phenomenology predicted by this model is much richer than previously believed. By releasing the constraint that the attraction band is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-23 Dragos-Victor Anghel