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Hybrid structures between conventional, s-wave superconductors and two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) are a promising route to topological superconductivity. Here, we investigate planar Josephson junctions fabricated from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-30 Arman Rashidi , Robert Kealhofer , Alexander C. Lygo , Victor Huang , Susanne Stemmer

We calculate supercurrent across a two-dimensional topological insulator subjected to an external magnetic field. When the edge states of a narrow two-dimensional topological insulator are hybridized, an external magnetic field can close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Alexander Zyuzin , Mohammad Alidoust , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) has recently been observed in various systems, sparking interest in novel superconducting devices and offering a new platform to probe intrinsic material properties. Josephson junctions with strong…

Superconducting diode effects have recently attracted much attention for their potential applications in superconducting logic circuits. Several mechanisms such as magneto-chiral effects, finite momentum Cooper pairing, asymmetric edge…

We theoretically propose a universal superconducting diode device based on double magnetic impurities which are coupled to the connection region of the Josephson junction. The positive and negative currents flowing across the junction can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Fei Sun , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We show that a planar Josephson junction having $d$-wave superconducting regions, with a skyrmion crystal placed underneath, produces a robust gate-tunable superconducting diode effect. The spatially-varying exchange field of the skyrmion…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-04 Digvijay Singh , Pankaj Sharma , Narayan Mohanta

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

Highly transparent superconducting contacts to a topological insulator (TI) remain a persistent challenge on the route to engineer topological superconductivity. Recently, the higher-order TI WTe$_2$ was shown to turn superconducting when…

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

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

Non-reciprocity in the critical current has been observed in a variety of superconducting systems and has been called the superconducting diode effect. The origin underlying the effect depends on the symmetry breaking mechanisms at play. We…

When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work we show that in certain classes of two-dimensional superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-11 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Liang Fu

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

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the superconductors are deposited on the surface of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Omri Lesser , Joon Young Park , Yuval Ronen , Thomas Werkmeister , Philip Kim , Yuval Oreg

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

When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken, superconducting circuits may exhibit a so-called diode effect, where the critical currents for opposite directions of the current flow differ. In recent years, this effect has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

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

The recent observations of the superconducting diode effect pose the challenge to fully understand the necessary ingredients for non-reciprocal phenomena in superconductors. In this theoretical work, we focus on the non-reciprocity of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-30 Tatiana de Picoli , Zane Blood , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Jukka I. Väyrynen

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

Non-reciprocal electronic transport in a spatially homogeneous system arises from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries. Superconducting and Josephson diodes, a key ingredient for future non-dissipative quantum…