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The superconducting diode effect is an asymmetry in the critical current with respect to the supercurrent polarity. One impetus driving recent interest in the effect is its dependence on intrinsic or microscopic symmetry breaking…

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 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 diode effect (SDE) enables nonreciprocal dissipationless transport when inversion and time-reversal symmetries are simultaneously broken. Rashba nanowires proximitized by conventional s-wave superconductors provide a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 Sagar Santra , Dibyendu Samanta , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

We study the anomalous proximity effect in diffusive normal metal (DN)/unconventional superconductor junctions, where the local density of states (LDOS) in the DN has a zero-energy peak due to the penetration of the odd-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Shun Tamura , Yukio Tanaka

We explore the role of interfacial Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for the Josephson diode effect in all-metal diffusive Josephson junctions. Devices with Fe/Pt and Cu/Pt weak links between Nb leads reveal a Josephson diode effect in an…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is characterized by the nonreciprocity of Cooper-pair motion with respect to current direction. In three-dimensional (3D) materials, SDE results in a critical current that varies with direction, making…

In bulk superconductors or Josephson junctions formed in materials with spin-orbit interaction, the critical current can depend on the direction of current flow and applied magnetic field, an effect known as the superconducting (SC) diode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Henry F. Legg , Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Under certain symmetry-breaking conditions, a superconducting system exhibits asymmetric critical currents, dubbed the ``superconducting diode effect". Recently, systems with the ideal superconducting diode efficiency or unidirectional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Haitian Su , Ji-Yin Wang , Han Gao , Yi Luo , Shili Yan , Xingjun Wu , Guoan Li , Jie Shen , Li Lu , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

We theoretically study the direct and inverse spin Hall effects in a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junction induced by a spin-orbit interaction that is invariant under spatial inversion. We show that a supercurrent induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Gen Tatara , Yositake Takane , Aurelien Manchon

The discovery of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has been cherished as a milestone in developing superconducting electronics. Tremendous efforts are being dedicated to realizing SDE in a wide variety of material platforms. Despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-21 Chengyu Yan , Huai Guan , Zhenyu Zhang , Yiheng Sun , Qiao Chen , Xinming Zhao , Chuanwen Zhao , James Jun He , Shun Wang

The Josephson Effect and Superconducting Proximity Effect were observed in Superconductor -Graphene-Superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions with coherence lengths comparable to the distance between the superconducting leads. By comparing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) - the asymmetry of critical currents with respect to current direction - is a pivotal advancement in non-reciprocal superconductivity. While SDE has been realized in diverse systems, a fundamental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-02 Peng Dong , Jinghui Wang , Yanjiang Wang , Jianjun Xiao , Xiang Zhou , Hui Xing , Yueshen Wu , Yulin Chen , Jinsheng Wen , Jun Li

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

We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Sjoerd Telkamp , Junting Zhao , Saulius Vaitiekėnas

The superconducting diode effect -- the dependence of critical current on its direction -- can arise from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetry in a superconductor and has gained interest for its potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Haixuan Huang , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka I. Väyrynen

Superconducting diodes, similar to semiconductor diodes, possess unidirectional superconducting properties and are the fundamental units for constructing superconducting quantum computing, thus attracting widespread attention. At present,…

Superconducting diodes are a recently-discovered quantum analogueue of classical diodes. The superconducting diode effect relies on the breaking of both time-reversal and inversion symmetry. As a result, the critical current of a…

We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of Majorana bound states. We show that junctions having middle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-08 Jorge Cayao , Naoto Nagaosa , Yukio Tanaka

By measuring the Josephson emission of a diffusive Superconductor-Normal metal-Superconductor (SNS) junction at a finite temperature we reveal a non-trivial sensitivity of the supercurrent to microwave irradiation. We demonstrate that the…