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The study of non-reciprocal phenomena has long captivated interest in both Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems. The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a non-reciprocal phenomenon characterized by unequal critical charge supercurrents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-15 Junjie Qi , Ming Lu , Jie Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , X. C. Xie

Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). So far, SD effects have been reported in complex hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto

We propose that the superconducting diode (SD) efficiency can be significantly enhanced near the transition between two superconducting states by choosing parameters where, before the system goes normal with increasing supercurrent, it…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-19 Uddalok Nag , Jonathan Schirmer , Chao-Xing Liu , J. K. Jain

Chiral materials lacking mirror symmetry can exhibit unconventional spin-orbit fields, including fully momentum-aligned radial Rashba fields as seen in twisted van der Waals homobilayers. We theoretically study Cooper-pair transfer in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-21 Andreas Costa , Osamu Kanehira , Hiroaki Matsueda , Jaroslav Fabian

Recently the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has attracted a lot of attention due to new possibilities in the field of superconducting electronics. One of the possible realizations of the SDE is the implementation in superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-02 T. Karabassov , I. V. Bobkova , V. M. Silkin , B. G. Lvov , A. A. Golubov , A. S. Vasenko

A superconducting diode is an electronic device that conducts supercurrent and exhibits zero resistance primarily for one direction of applied current. Such a dissipationless diode is a desirable unit for constructing electronic circuits…

A strong superconducting diode effect (SDE) is revealed in a thin superconducting film periodically nanostructured with magnetic dots. The SDE is caused by the current-activated dissipation mitigated by vortex-antivortex pairs (VAPs), which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-27 Ji Jiang , M. V. Milošević , Yong-Lei Wang , Zhi-Li Xiao , F. M. Peeters , Qing-Hu Chen

We identify a new mechanism for the intrinsic superconducting diode effect (SDE) in multiphase superconductors. Using a Ginzburg-Landau and a microscopic two-band model, we find phase transitions into a mixed phase with finite-momentum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-19 Daniel Shaffer , Dmitry V. Chichinadze , Alex Levchenko

Nonreciprocal electrical transport, characterized by an asymmetric relationship between current and voltage, plays a crucial role in modern electronic industries. Recent studies have extended this phenomenon to superconductors, introducing…

One of the most promising platforms for one-dimensional topological superconductivity is based on semiconducting nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC), where s-wave superconductivity is induced by proximity effect and an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Jorge Cayao

An ideal switching effect is discovered in a semiconductor nanowire with a spatially-periodic Rashba structure. Bistable `ON' and `OFF' states can be realized by tuning the gate voltage applied on the Rashba regions. The energy range and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. J. Gong , Z. Q. Yang

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…

The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by nonreciprocal critical currents, has attracted growing attention due to its potential applications in quantum technologies and energy-efficient devices. In this work, we explore the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Jiong Li , Ji Jiang , Qing-Hu Chen

Two dimensional electron systems at oxide interfaces are often influenced by a Rashba type spin- orbit coupling (SOC), which is tunable by a transverse electric field. Ferromagnetism at the interface can simultaneously induce strong local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-23 Florian Loder , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

Currently, the superconducting diode effect (SDE) is actively discussed due to large application potential in superconducting electronics. In particular, the superconducting hybrid structures based on three-dimensional (3D) topological…

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

We systematically study the efficiency of the intrinsic superconducting diode effect of several pair-density-wave states that can emerge in two-dimensional $d$-wave metallic altermagnets. To this end, we investigate several scenarios using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-31 Igor de M. Froldi , Hermann Freire

Diodes have a nonreciprocal voltage versus current relationship, produced by breaking the space and time reversal symmetry. However, developing high-end superconducting computers requires a superconducting analogue of the traditional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-03 Cliff Sun , Ziqi Zhao , Alexey Bezryadin

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

Superconductor/topological material heterostructures are intensively studied as a platform for topological superconductivity and Majorana physics. However, the high cost of nanofabrication and the difficulty of preparing high-quality…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-03 Keita Ishihara , Le Duc Anh , Tomoki Hotta , Kohdai Inagaki , Masaki Kobayashi , Masaaki Tanaka