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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

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

Symmetry plays a critical role in determining various properties of a material. Semiconducting p-n junction diode exemplifies the engineered skew electronic response and is at the heart of contemporary electronic circuits. The…

In superconducting systems in which inversion and time-reversal symmetry are simultaneously broken the critical current for positive and negative current bias can be different. For superconducting systems formed by Josephson junctions (JJs)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-06 Joseph J. Cuozzo , Wei Pan , Javad Shabani , Enrico Rossi

Superconducting devices with broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries can exhibit novel superconducting phenomena. The observation of superconducting diode effects, which is applicable for dissipationless rectification,…

The properties of Josephson devices are strongly affected by geometrical effects. A loop-shaped superconducting electrode tightly couples a long Josephson tunnel junction with the surrounding electromagnetic field. Due to the fluxoid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-23 Roberto Monaco

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

Nonreciprocal superconducting devices have attracted growing interest in recent years as they potentially enable directional charge transport for applications in superconducting quantum circuits. Specifically, the superconducting diode…

We propose theoretically a thermal switch operating by the magnetic-flux controlled diffraction of phase-coherent heat currents in a thermally biased Josephson junction based on a two-dimensional topological insulator. For short junctions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sothmann , Francesco Giazotto , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

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

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

The superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor (S/F/S) Josephson junctions (JJs) with an anomalous ground state phase shift $\varphi_0 \neq 0,\pi$ ($\varphi_0$-S/F/S JJs) enable the implementation of the zero-field Josephson diode effect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-13 G. A. Bobkov , I. A. Shvets , I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , S. V. Eremeev , E. V. Chulkov

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE) describes superconducting systems where the magnitude of the superconducting-to-normal state switching current differs for positive and negative current bias. Despite the ubiquity of such diode effects in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-11 Joseph J. Cuozzo , François Léonard

Recently, the superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical currents in opposite directions, has been observed experimentally and predicted theoretically in models of bulk superconductors and Josephson junctions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-20 Lovy Sharma , Bimal Ghimire , Manisha Thakurathi

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

The simultaneous co-existence and gate-tuneability of the superconducting (SC), magnetic and topological orders in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) open up entirely new possibilities for the creation of complex hybrid Josephson…

Efficient, scalable, and magnetic-field-free superconducting diodes are essential for future superconducting electronics; yet, despite significant efforts, such practical devices remain unrealized. The main challenge lies in achieving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Taras Golod , Amirreza Lotfian , Vladimir M. Krasnov

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