English
Related papers

Related papers: Josephson diode effect derived from short-range co…

200 papers

In this study, we explore the Josephson current-phase relation within a planar diffuse tunneling superconducting multilayer junction subjected to a parallel magnetic field. Our investigation involves computing the supercurrent associated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-19 A. S. Osin , Alex Levchenko , Maxim Khodas

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) is a novel phenomenon in which a superconducting junction exhibits asymmetric Josephson currents with respect to the superconducting phase difference. In this study, we theoretically investigate how the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Shin-ichi Hikino

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) within quasi-2D planar systems featuring the $C_{1v}$ spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman fields in the normal region. Our analysis is based on experimental observations conducted on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-29 Gongqi Wang , Jianjian Miao , Wei-Qiang Chen

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry can lead to peculiar effects in Josephson junctions, such as the anomalous Josephson effect or supercurrent rectification, which is a dissipationless analog of the diode…

A new experiment is proposed to probe the time-reversal symmetry of a superconductor. It is shown that a time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductor can be identified by the observation of a fractional flux in connection with a Josephson…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Manfred Sigrist , Yong Baek Kim

We study superconductor/normal region/superconductor (S|N|S) Josephson junction formed using superconductors with d, d + id', and d + is superconducting pairings. We show that the quality factor of the Josephson diode effect and its sign…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-18 Hamed Vakili , Moaz Ali , Alexey A. Kovalev

Superconductivity is a result of quantum coherence at macroscopic scales. Two superconductors separated by a metallic or insulating weak link exhibit the AC Josephson effect - the conversion of a DC voltage bias into an AC supercurrent.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-01-31 Thomas McDermott , Hai-Yao Deng , Andreas Isacsson , Eros Mariani

The superconducting diode effect, reminiscent of the unidirectional charge transport in semiconductor diodes, is characterized by a nonreciprocal, dissipationless flow of Cooper pairs. This remarkable phenomenon arises from the interplay…

We report evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in supercurrent for…

Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) generally emerge in superconducting systems where both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken, showing nonreciprocal current characteristics: nondissipative in one direction and ohmic in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Jiajun Ma , Ruiya Zhan , Xiao Lin

We analyze the presence of non-reciprocal critical currents, the so-called superconducting diode effect, in chiral superconductors within a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. After deriving its key symmetry conditions we illustrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-13 Bastian Zinkl , Keita Hamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

The Josephson diode (JD) is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained a growing interest because of promising applications in superconducting…

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) in topological Josephson junctions. By both analytic and numerical calculations, we find that while a Josephson junction in the topological phase may exhibit higher diode efficiency compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Zhaochen Liu , Linghao Huang , Jing Wang

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry, in connection to superconductivity, leads to transport properties with disrupting scientific and technological potential. Indeed, the anomalous Josephson effect and the…

Planar Josephson junctions in a magnetic field exhibit the superconducting diode effect, by which the critical current magnitude depends on the polarity of the transport current. A number of different mechanisms for the effect have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 William F. Schiela , Melissa Mikalsen , William M. Strickland , Javad Shabani

We study nonreciprocal signatures of Josephson current (JC) in a quantum dot (QD)-based Josephson junction (JJ) that comprises of two periodically driven Kitaev chains (KCs) coupled with an intervening QD. The simultaneous breaking of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Koustav Roy , Gourab Paul , Debika Debnath , Kuntal Bhattacharyya , Saurabh Basu

Exotic superconductors, such as high T$_C$, topological, and heavy-fermion superconductors, require phase sensitive measurements to determine the underlying pairing. Here we investigate the proximity-induced superconductivity in nanowires…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-21 C. J. Trimble , M. T. Wei , N. F. Q. Yuan , S. S. Kalantre , P. Liu , H. -J Han , M. -G. Han , Y. Zhu , J. J. Cha , L. Fu , J. R. Williams

Superconducting diode effect, in analogy to the nonreciprocal resistive charge transport in semiconducting diode, is a nonreciprocity of dissipationless supercurrent. Such an exotic phenomenon originates from intertwining between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-01 Muhammad Nadeem , Michael S. Fuhrer , Xiaolin Wang

Superconducting electronics offer significant advantages in speed and power efficiency for next-generation computing and communication systems. However, their practical deployment is limited by the absence of simple, efficient, and scalable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Amirreza Lotfian , Taras Golod , Vladimir M. Krasnov

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…