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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…

A noncentrosymmetric superconductor can have a superconducting diode effect, where the critical current in opposite directions is different when time-reversal symmetry is also broken. We theoretically propose that a ferroelectric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-10-26 Baoxing Zhai , Bohao Li , Yao Wen , Fengcheng Wu , Jun He

In this study, we explore the behavior of a superconducting meso-wedge geometry in 3+1 dimensions (three spatial dimensions plus time) subjected to external transport currents at its boundaries and surfaces, as well as external fields…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 C. A. Aguirre , J. Barba-Ortega , A. S. de Arruda , J. Faundez

The new family of unconventional iron-based superconductors discovered in 2006 immediately relieved their copper-based high-temperature predecessors as the most actively studied superconducting compounds in the world. The experimental and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-10 Aliaksei Charnukha

Superconducting diodes, devices that allow Cooper-pair currents to flow more easily in one direction than the other, are set to become key building blocks for dissipationless electronics. Existing realizations, however, rely on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Jon Ortuzar , Stefano Trivini , Leonard Edens , F. Sebastian Bergeret , Jose Ignacio Pascual

We explore Weyl and Dirac semimetals with tilted nodes as platforms for realizing an intrinsic superconducting diode effect. Although tilting breaks sufficient spatial and time-reversal symmetries, we prove that -- at least for conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Kai Chen , Bishnu Karki , Pavan Hosur

Diode is one of basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response, associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of superconducting diodes operational at zero magnetic field. They…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-02 T. Golod , V. M. Krasnov

A general principle of condensed matter physics prohibits the electric current in equilibrium. This prevents a zero-resistance state realized solely under a finite electric current, namely unidirectional superconductivity. In this paper, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-14 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

We elaborate on the recently introduced concept of reentrant Kondo effect in quantum impurities/dots coupled to hybrid metal-semiconductor contacts [G.~Diniz {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 101}, 125115 (2020)]. By noticing the equivalence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Peter Zalom , Tomáš Novotný

We propose a universal spin superconducting diode effect (SDE) induced by spin-orbit coupling (SOC), where the critical spin supercurrents in opposite directions are unequal. By analysis from both the Ginzburg-Landau theory and energy band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-18 Yue Mao , Qing Yan , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

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

Recent excitement in observation of non-reciprocal critical current (NRC) is motivated by a suggestion that "superconducting diode effect" may be an intrinsic property of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit…

As a novel quantum phenomenon with nonreciprocal supercurrent, the Josephson diode effect was intensively studied in recent years. Here, we construct a generalized resistively capacitance shunted junction (RCSJ) model as a low-energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-01 Da Wang , Qiang-Hua Wang , Congjun Wu

Recently the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has attracted a lot of attention due to new possibilities in the field of superconducting electronics. One of the possible realizations of the SDE is the implementation in superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-02 T. Karabassov , I. V. Bobkova , V. M. Silkin , B. G. Lvov , A. A. Golubov , A. S. Vasenko

We theoretically propose a mechanism to realize the superconducting diode effect (SDE): The current can generate a magnetic field, affecting the magnetic moment of magnetic impurity. When the connection region of the Josephson junction is…

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

This paper presents a novel theory for understanding the mechanics behind non-conventional superconductors. It presents the hypothesis that non-conventional superconductors are 2D lattices of super-cells and that the superconductivity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-20 Xuan Zhong Ni , M. H. Jiang

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

Despite intense efforts during the last 25 years, the physics of unconventional superconductors, including the cuprates with a very high transition temperature, is still a controversial subject. It is believed that superconductivity in many…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-01 Jian-Huang She , Bas J. Overbosch , Ya-Wen Sun , Yan Liu , Koenraad Schalm , John A. Mydosh , Jan Zaanen

The theory of hole superconductivity predicts that in superconductors the charged superfluid is about a million times more rigid than the normal electron fluid. We point out that this physics should give rise to large changes in the bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-24 J. E. Hirsch

The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by a nonreciprocal supercurrent, has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its potential applications. However, most studies have focused on weakly correlated models,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-05 Kai Chen , Pavan Hosur