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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…

We calculate the spin Hall conductivity driven by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in $p$-type two-dimensional semiconductors in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. For a highly confined quantum well, the system is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Zarea , Sergio E. Ulloa

We demonstrate nonreciprocal critical current in 65 nm thick polycrystalline and epitaxial Nb thin films patterned into tracks. The nonreciprocal behavior gives a supercurrent diode effect, where the current passed in one direction is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-01 N. Satchell , P. M. Shepley , M. C. Rosamond , G. Burnell

We investigate theoretically the superfluidity of a one-dimensional boson system whose hopping energy is periodically modulated with a zero time average, which results in the suppression of first-order single-particle hopping processes. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-08 Jesús Mateos , Charles Creffield , Fernando Sols

Recent excitement in observation of non-reciprocal critical current (NRC) is motivated by a suggestion that "superconducting diode effect" may be an intrinsic property of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit…

We propose a material platform comprised of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures to realize the two-dimensional (2D) helical superconductivity with an intrinsic gap. By van der Waals stacking a 2D superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Xuance Jiang , Jennifer Cano , Yuan Ping , Yafis Barlas , Deyu Lu

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

We study the superconducting proximity effect in an InAs nanowire contacted by Ta-based superconducting electrodes. Using local bottom gates, we control the potential landscape along the nanowire, tuning its conductance to a quasi-ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , R. Žitko , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , V. Zannier , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , R. Aguado , S. De Franceschi

We show that the amplitude, or Higgs mode of a superconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling and an exchange field, couples linearly to the electromagnetic field. Furthermore, by coupling such a superconductor to an LC resonator, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Yao Lu , Stefan Ilić , Risto Ojajärvi , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Multi-band effects in hybrid structures provide a rich playground for unconventional superconductivity. We combine two complementary approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT) and effective low-energy model theory in order to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-29 Philipp Rüßmann , Masoud Bahari , Stefan Blügel , Björn Trauzettel

Semiconductor Rashba nanowires are quasi-one dimensional systems that have large spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from a broken inversion symmetry due to an external electric field. There exist parametrized multiband models that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

We study how the supercurrent flow pattern is altered by inhomogeneities in superconducting films. Working in the vicinity of the critical temperature and assuming a model of short-range disorder in the quadratic term of the Ginzburg-Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-01 Mikhail A. Skvortsov , Oleg B. Zuev , Dina I. Fazlizhanova

We investigate intrinsic superconducting diode effect in the unconventional superconducting state of $d$-wave altermagnets. We find large diode efficiencies in the wide-reaching finite-momentum pairing regimes of the phase diagram.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-16 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Theory of the superconducting parity transition is extended by incorporating the vortex degree of freedom. We employ the bilayer Rashba model representing locally noncentrosymmetric layered superconductors and derive the Ginzburg-Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-22 Akihiro Minamide , Youichi Yanase

A Ginzburg-Landau theory is developed for unconventional superconductors with the three relevant singlet pairing channels. Various consequences of the sub-dominant channels (i.e., s- and d_{xy}-channels) are examined in detail. (1) In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Qiang-Hua Wang , Z. D. Wang , Q. Li

In superconductors that lack inversion symmetry, a supercurrent flow can lead to nondissipative magnetoelectric effects. We offer a straightforward formalism to obtain a supercurrent-induced magnetization in superconductors with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Mostafa Tanhayi Ahari , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The phenomena of superconductivity and charge density waves are observed in close vicinity in many strongly correlated materials. Increasing evidence from experiments and numerical simulations suggests both phenomena can also occur in an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-22 Niccolò Baldelli , Hannes Karlsson , Benedikt Kloss , Matthew Fishman , Alexander Wietek

We investigate thermoelectric properties of a ferromagnet-superconductor hybrid structure with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and delta function potential barrier at the interfacial layer. The exponential rise of thermal conductance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

We report the observation of superconductivity with multiple magnetic ordering and Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling in a layered polar semimetal EuAuBi. Magnetic transition is observed at 4 K, followed by a superconducting transition at 2.2…