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In Josephson diodes the asymmetry between positive and negative current branch of the current-phase relation leads to a polarity-dependent critical current and Josephson inductance. The supercurrent nonreciprocity can be described as a…

Ratchet motion of superconducting vortices, which is a directional flow of vortices in superconductors, is highly useful for exploring quantum phenomena and developing superconducting devices, such as superconducting diode and microwave…

We report on dynamics of non-local Abrikosov vortex flow in mesoscopic superconducting Nb channels. Magnetic field dependence of the non-local voltage induced by the flux flow shows that vortices form ordered vortex chains. Voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Karapetrov , V. Yefremenko , G. Mihajlović , J. E. Pearson , M. Iavarone , V. Novosad , S. D. Bader

A theory of the macroturbulent instability in the system containing vortices of opposite directions (vortices and antivortices) in hard superconductors is proposed. The origin of the instability is connected with the anisotropy of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Fisher , T. H. Johansen , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. A. Levchenko , V. A. Yampol'skii

We explore, with unprecedented single vortex resolution, the dissipation and motion of vortices in a superconducting ribbon under the influence of an external alternating magnetic field. This is achieved by combing the phase sensitive…

The emergence of a rectified steady-state supercurrent as a response to the photoexcited current of the quasiparticles constitutes the concept of a superconducting photodiode. This phenomenon occurs in a two-dimensional thin superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-06 A. V. Parafilo , V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

Symmetry elegantly governs the fundamental properties and derived functionalities of condensed matter. For instance, realizing the superconducting diode effect (SDE) demands breaking space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries…

In this work, we explore the generalities of the supercurrent diode effect. As an illustrative example, we examine a model of a two-dimensional superconductor with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling under an in-plane magnetic field and in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-16 Jaglul Hasan , Daniel Shaffer , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko

The nonlinear dynamics of thermal and electromagnetic perturbations in the vortex state of type II superconductors is analyzed with account of dissipation and dispersion effects. A theoretical analysis shows that nonlinear thermal and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nizam A. Taylanov

An enhancement of vortex-motion damping in thin Pb/In superconducting films is obtained through coupling to an adjacent two-dimensional electron gas formed in a modulation-doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. This effect is observed by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Danckwerts A. R. Goni , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , A. G. Rojo

We investigate the vortex flow anisotropy in the mixed state of nematic superconductors, focusing on the effects of nematic-superconducting coupling on vortex dynamics. Using numerical simulations within a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau…

Superconductors connected to normal metallic electrodes at the nanoscale provide a potential source of non-locally entangled electron pairs. Such states would arise from Cooper pairs splitting into two electrons with opposite spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 A. Levy Yeyati , F. S. Bergeret , A. Martin-Rodero , T. M. Klapwijk

Superconducting circuits have attracted growing interest in recent years as a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Extensive efforts have always been taken to completely shield these circuits from external…

We present a phenomenological model for the vortex dynamics in the peak effect region of weakly pinned superconductors. We explain the history dependent dynamic response of the metastable vortex states subjected to a transport current and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ravikumar

Quantized magnetic vortices driven by electric current determine key electromagnetic properties of superconductors. While the dynamic behavior of slow vortices has been thoroughly investigated, the physics of ultrafast vortices under strong…

The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

The mixed-state resistive response of a superconductor thin film with an asymmetric washboard pinning potential subject to superimposed dc and ac currents of arbitrary amplitudes and frequency at finite temperature is theoretically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-01 Valerij A. Shklovskij , Vladimir V. Sosedkin , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

In light of recent proposals to realize a topological superconductor on the surface of strong topological insulators, we study impurity and vortex scattering in two dimensional topological superconductivity. We develop a theory of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-21 Aaron Farrell , Maxime Beaudry , M. Franz , T. Pereg-Barnea

We study theoretically dynamical phases of vortices in superconducting films with arrays of obstacles. By performing a series of molecular dynamics simulations and analytical calculations, we demonstrate the existence of a phase of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-11 Rogério M. da Silva , Clécio C. de Souza Silva

Two-dimensional vortex dynamics in a ratchet washboard planar pinning potential (PPP) in the presence of thermal fluctuations is considered on the basis of a Fokker-Planck equation. Explicit expressions for two new nonlinear anisotropic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-06-16 Valerij A. Shklovskij , Vladimir V. Sosedkin