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Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures are promising platforms for realizing topological superconductors and exploring Majorana bound states physics. Motivated by recent experimental progress, we theoretically study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. Maiani , R. Seoane Souto , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg

In the framework of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism, we investigate the transport properties in the surface of a 3-dimensional topological insulator-based hybrid structure, where the ferromagnetic and superconducting orders are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 M. Khezerlou , H. Goudarzi

The discovery of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has been cherished as a milestone in developing superconducting electronics. Tremendous efforts are being dedicated to realizing SDE in a wide variety of material platforms. Despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-21 Chengyu Yan , Huai Guan , Zhenyu Zhang , Yiheng Sun , Qiao Chen , Xinming Zhao , Chuanwen Zhao , James Jun He , Shun Wang

We study the transport properties of a diffusive Josephson junction between two spin-split superconductors made of superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator bilayers (FIS) on top of a 3D topological insulator (TI). We derive the corresponding…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-21 Tim Kokkeler , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Alexander Golubov

The superconducting diode effect -- the dependence of critical current on its direction -- can arise from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetry in a superconductor and has gained interest for its potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Haixuan Huang , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka I. Väyrynen

Hybrid structures between conventional, s-wave superconductors and two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) are a promising route to topological superconductivity. Here, we investigate planar Josephson junctions fabricated from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-30 Arman Rashidi , Robert Kealhofer , Alexander C. Lygo , Victor Huang , Susanne Stemmer

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is defined by the difference in the magnitude of critical currents applied in opposite directions. It has been observed in various superconducting systems and attracted high research interests.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-10 Shichao Qi , Jun Ge , Chengcheng Ji , Yiwen Ai , Gaoxing Ma , Ziqiao Wang , Zihan Cui , Yi Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Jian Wang

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 recent demonstration of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has generated renewed interests in superconducting electronics in which devices such as compact superconducting diodes that can perform signal rectification where low-energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-29 H. C. Travaglini , J. J. Cuozzo , K. R. Sapkota , I. A. Leahy , A. D. Rice , K. Alberi , W. Pan

It was recently experimentally proved that the superconducting counterpart of a diode, i.e., a device that realizes nonreciprocal Cooper pairs transport, can be realized by breaking the spatial and time-reversal symmetry of a system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-13 Angelo Greco , Quentin Pichard , Francesco Giazotto

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) allows polarity-dependent critical currents when time-reversal and current-inverting spatial symmetries are broken. Superconducting diodes show promise for applications, but inversion asymmetry is…

It is a well known phenomenon in optics that spectroscopic resolution of a diffraction grating is much better compared to an interference device having just two slits, as in the Young's famous double-slit experiment. On the other hand, it…

Superconducting diodes, similar to semiconductor diodes, possess unidirectional superconducting properties and are the fundamental units for constructing superconducting quantum computing, thus attracting widespread attention. At present,…

We present a microscopic theory of proximity effect in the ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) nanostructures where S is s-wave low-T_c superconductor and F's are layers of 3d transition ferromagnetic metal. Our approach is based…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Bagrets , C. Lacroix , A. Vedyayev

We present a theoretical framework for investigating superconducting proximity effect in altermagnet (AM)-superconductor (SC) heterostructures. In general, AMs, characterized by vanishing net magnetization but spin-split electronic spectra,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-20 Ohidul Alam , Amartya Pal , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface leads to a splitting of the superconducting density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-21 Tero T Heikkilä , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Stimulated by the recent experiment [F. Ando et al., Nature 584, 373 (2020)], we propose an intrinsic mechanism to cause the superconducting diode effect (SDE). SDE refers to the nonreciprocity of the critical current for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-02 Akito Daido , Yuhei Ikeda , Youichi Yanase

Proximity effect in thin-film superconductor (S)/magnet heterostructures with different types of magnets including ferromagnets, antiferromagnets and altermagnets is widely considered in the framework of an effective model, where the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-16 V. A. Bobkov , G. A. Bobkov , I. V. Bobkova

We study the electronic properties of a planar semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure, in which a thin ferromagnetic insulator layer lies in between and acts as a spin filtering barrier. We find that in such a system one can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Chun-Xiao Liu , Michael Wimmer