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Semiconducting diode with nonreciprocal transport effect underlies the cornerstone of contemporary integrated circuits (ICs) technology. Due to isotropic superconducting properties and the lack of breaking of inversion symmetry for…

Motivated by the observation of two distinct superconducting phases in the moir\'eless ABC-stacked rhombohedral trilayer graphene, we investigate the electron-acoustic-phonon coupling as a possible pairing mechanism. We predict the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-26 Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Jay D. Sau , Sankar Das Sarma

Nonreciprocity in superconductors is attracting much interest owing to its fundamental importance as well as its potential applicability to engineering. In this paper, we generalize the previous theories of the intrinsic superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-20 Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

Motivated by recent progress in both the Josephson diode effect (JDE) and the high-temperature Josephson junction, we propose to realize the JDE in an s-wave/d-wave/s-wave (s-d-s) superconductor junction and investigate the high-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 Guo-Liang Guo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Xin Liu

We study the Josephson diode effect in the one-dimensional superconductor/helimagnet/superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. For the spin-singlet $s$-wave pairing in superconductors, it is found that the necessary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-29 Qiang Cheng , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

We propose a new type of supercurrent diode effect on the surface of a superconductor with surface states under in-plane magnetic fields. Surface supercurrent diode effect can lead to a perfect supercurrent diode in a considerably wide…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-11 Noah F. Q. Yuan

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) -- the nonreciprocity of the critical current in a bulk superconductor -- has garnered significant attention due to its potential applications in superconducting electronics. However, the role of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-13 Jaglul Hasan , Daniel Shaffer , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko

We have developed a microscopic theory of ac Josephson effect in short ballistic superconducting constrictions with arbitrary electron transparency and in constrictions with diffusive electron transport. The theory is valid for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Zaitsev , D. V. Averin

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

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka

We demonstrate the perfect superconducting diode effect (SDE) -- unidirectional supercurrent with 100% diode efficiency -- in light-driven nonequilibrium systems. Although the perfect SDE is difficult to achieve in equilibrium,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-26 Makoto Ichikawa , Youichi Yanase

We study the Josephson effect between weakly coupled d-wave superconductors within the quasiclassical theory, in particular, the influence of interface roughness on the current-phase relation and the critical current of mirror junctions and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Lueck , P. Schwab , U. Eckern , A. Shelankov

In analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of…

The structure of the Meissner effect in a current-carrying cylindrical wire with arbitrary disorder is studied using a numerical procedure that is exact within the semiclassical approximation. A distribution of currents is found that is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , J. Ferrer , F. Sols

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…

Magnesium diboride superconducting wires give the largest critical current density (Jc) when produced with iron sheath. Because iron is ferromagnetic, it is expected to improve the field dependence of Jc by shielding of the external field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Horvat

We show that Josephson junctions made of multiband semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling carry a critical supercurrent $I_c$ that contains information about the non-trivial topology of the system. In particular, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-22 Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Ramón Aguado

Under certain symmetry-breaking conditions, a superconducting system exhibits asymmetric critical currents, dubbed the ``superconducting diode effect". Recently, systems with the ideal superconducting diode efficiency or unidirectional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Haitian Su , Ji-Yin Wang , Han Gao , Yi Luo , Shili Yan , Xingjun Wu , Guoan Li , Jie Shen , Li Lu , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

We study the superconducting Josephson junction diode operating via the magnetic field of skyrmions. Inspired by the near-field optical microscopy, we propose to partially screen the magnetic field and analyze part-by-part the magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-17 A. Sinner , X. -G. Wang , S. S. P. Parkin , A. Ernst , V. Dugaev , L. Chotorlishvili

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