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The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an effect known as the superconducting (SC) diode effect. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Nonreciprocity of supercurrents may exist when both spatial inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, leading to the supercurrent diode effect (SDE). The spatial inversion symmetry may be broken by chiral structures in nanotubes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-20 Chuang Li , James Jun He

We characterize the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in two-dimensional diffusive structures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using the quasiclassical formalism. We consider both homogeneous superconductors and Josephson junctions. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-04 Stefan Ilic , Pauli Virtanen , Daniel Crawford , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

A strong superconducting diode effect (SDE) is revealed in a thin superconducting film periodically nanostructured with magnetic dots. The SDE is caused by the current-activated dissipation mitigated by vortex-antivortex pairs (VAPs), which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-27 Ji Jiang , M. V. Milošević , Yong-Lei Wang , Zhi-Li Xiao , F. M. Peeters , Qing-Hu Chen

Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems, where the nonreciprocal quantity is the resistance. Recent…

We identify a new mechanism for the intrinsic superconducting diode effect (SDE) in multiphase superconductors. Using a Ginzburg-Landau and a microscopic two-band model, we find phase transitions into a mixed phase with finite-momentum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-19 Daniel Shaffer , Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Alex Levchenko

A systematic study has been carried out on the previously reported "magnetic-field-induced superconductivity" of Zn nanowires. By varying parameters such as magnetic field orientation and wire length, the results provide evidence that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu Chen , Yen-Hsiang Lin , S. D. Snyder , A. M. Goldman

The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by nonreciprocal critical currents, has attracted growing attention due to its potential applications in quantum technologies and energy-efficient devices. In this work, we explore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Jiong Li , Ji Jiang , Qing-Hu Chen

Non-reciprocal 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 breaking time-reversal symmetry. We here show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-31 Sayan Banerjee , Mathias S. Scheurer

We here propose and study theoretically a non-equilibrium mechanism for the superconducting diode effect, which applies specifically to the case where time-reversal-symmetry -- a prerequisite for the diode effect -- is spontaneously broken…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-17 Sayan Banerjee , Mathias S. Scheurer

Superconducting diodes, which enable dissipationless supercurrent flow in one direction while blocking it in the reverse direction, are emerging as pivotal components for superconducting electronics. The development of editable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-11 Yishuai Wang , Wenze Pan , Meng Zhang , Yanwu Xie

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

As quantum technologies advance, a fundamental challenge is mitigating noise and backscattering in superconducting circuits to achieve scalable, high-fidelity operations. Conventional superconducting components lack directionality, causing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Han Zhong , Denis Kochan , Igor Zutic , Yingying Wu

We investigate the emergence of superconducting phases, both with zero and finite Cooper-pair center of mass momenta, in recently proposed unconventional $p$-wave magnets. As a consequence, we find that, while these magnetic phases are in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

As a part of my doctoral thesis, I studied the effect of phase fluctuations in two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) superconducting films of conventional s-wave superconductor, NbN, by measuring the electrodynamics response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-10 Mintu Mondal

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…

Vortex dynamics is strongly connected with the mechanisms responsible for the photon detection of superconducting devices. Indeed, the local suppression of superconductivity by photon absorption may trigger vortex nucleation and motion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-03 A. Leo , N. Martucciello , A. Guarino , V. La Ferrara , E. Bobeico , J. C. Villégier , A. Nigro , S. Pace , G. Grimaldi

The structures of the superconducting spin valve (SSV) Fe/Si$_3$N$_4$/Pb/Si$_3$N$_4$/Fe (where Si$_3$N$_4$ is a dielectric insulating layer of controlled thickness) were investigated. The dependence of the magnitude of the SSV effect on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-22 A. A. Kamashev , N. N. Garif'yanov , A. A. Validov , A. S. Osin , Ya. V. Fominov , I. A. Garifullin

We systematically study the efficiency of the intrinsic superconducting diode effect of several pair-density-wave states that can emerge in two-dimensional $d$-wave metallic altermagnets. To this end, we investigate several scenarios using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

We demonstrate that superconducting aluminium nano-bridges can be driven into a state with complete suppression of the critical supercurrent via electrostatic gating. Probing both in- and out-of-plane magnetic field responses in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-18 Lennart Bours , Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Elia Strambini , Francesco Giazotto