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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

A zero-magnetic-field Josephson diode effect (JDE) is observed in an asymmetric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) mediated by Dirac semimetal Cd3As2. We argue that a phase coupling between the surface and bulk…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-23 W. Yu , J. J. Cuozzo , K. Sapkota , E. Rossi , D. X. Rademacher , T. M. Nenoff , W. Pan

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical currents in opposite directions, has been observed with or without magnetic fields, yet mechanisms enabling zero-field SDE without explicit symmetry breaking remain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Yiheng Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , James Jun He

We report the experimental evidence of the ac Josephson effect in a transition edge sensor (TES) operating in a frequency domain multiplexer and biased by ac voltage at MHz frequencies. The effect is observed by measuring the non-linear…

Periodically driven Kitaev chains are known to exhibit novel Floquet Majorana fermions and anomalous Floquet end modes. The fact that `quasienergy in Floquet systems is periodic' poses a difficulty in defining the ground state in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 Abhiram Soori

We predict a field-free transverse Josephson diode effect in altermagnets (AMs) with Rashba spin--orbit coupling, achieving diode efficiencies exceeding $3000\%$ and unidirectional transverse supercurrents in four-terminal junctions. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

A Josephson junction laser is realised when a microwave cavity is driven by a voltage-biased Josephson junction. Through the ac Josephson effect, a dc voltage generates a periodic drive that acts on the cavity and generates interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Ben Lang , Grace F. Morley , Andrew D. Armour

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 consider the inverse problem of designing an array of superconducting Josephson junctions that has a given maximum static current pattern as function of the applied magnetic field. Such devices are used for magnetometry and as Terahertz…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. G. Caputo , L. Loukitch

We study the Josephson effects in the superconductor/two-dimensional Weyl nodal line semimetal/superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. When the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and an external magnetic field coexist in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Wen-Ting Liu , Shu-Chang Zhao , Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

We study theoretically dynamics in a Josephson junction coupled to a mechanical resonator looking at the signatures of the resonance in d.c. electrical response of the junction. Such a system can be realized experimentally as a suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , C. J. H. Keijzers , Yu. V. Nazarov

In addition to the usual superconducting current, Josephson junctions (JJs) support a phase-dependent conductance related to the retardation effect of tunneling quasi-particles. This introduces a dissipative current with a memory-resistive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Forrest Sheldon , Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We theoretically investigate the anomalous and diode Josephson effects in planar two-dimensional Josephson junctions with arbitrarily oriented exchange fields in two ferromagnets within the barrier, and spin-orbit coupling at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-12 Stevan Djurdjević , Zorica Popović

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

We study the equilibrium dc Josephson current in a junction between an $s$-wave and a topological superconductor. Cooper pairs from the $s$-wave superconducting lead can transfer to the topological side either via an unpaired Majorana zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Chun-Xiao Liu , Bernard van Heck , Michael Wimmer

Cr$_{1/3}$NbS$_{2}$ is a transition metal dichalcogenide that is also a chiral helimagnet, and so lacks inversion symmetry and has non-zero Berry curvature in position and momentum space. It is well known that the combination of broken…

Usually the magnetochiral anisotropy related Josephson diode effect is assumed to be based on conventional two-dimensional electron gas, such as the InAs quantum well. Here we propose a graphene-based Josephson junction as a broadly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-06 Chuan-Shuai Huang

We consider a superconducting loop with two weak links that encloses a magnetic flux. The weak links are unequal and are treated as Josephson junctions with non-sinusoidal phase dependence. We devise a model that takes into account the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge Berger

Josephson weak links in superconductors can be engineered such that the phase difference across the junction is $\pi$ ($\pi$-junction),leading to the reversal of the current. The conditions under which the analogous effect of supercurrent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sakellari , N. P. Proukakis , M. Leadbeater , C. S. Adams

Integrating conventional superconductors with common III-V semiconductors provides a versatile platform to implement tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) and their applications. We propose that with gate-controlled time-dependent spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 David Monroe , Mohammad Alidoust , Igor Žutić