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It is customary to use arrays of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) for implementing magnetic field-tunable inductors. Here, we demonstrate an equivalent tunability in a (SQUID-free) array of single Al/AlOx/Al Josephson…

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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

More and more materials, with a growing variety of properties, are built into electronic devices. This is motivated both by increased device performance and by the studies of materials themselves. An important type of device is a Josephson…

A Josephson diode is a non-reciprocal circuit element that supports a larger dissipationless supercurrent in one direction than in the other. In this work, we propose and theoretically study a class of Josephson diodes based on supercurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Rubén Seoane Souto , Martin Leijnse , Constantin Schrade

Superconducting tunnel junctions constitute the units of superconducting quantum circuits and are massively used both for quantum sensing and quantum computation. In previous works, we predicted the existence of a nonlinear thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 G. Marchegiani , A. Braggio , F. Giazotto

The combination of an ordinary s-type superconductor with three-dimensional topological insulators creates a promising platform for fault-tolerant topological quantum computing circuits based on Majorana braiding. The backbone of the…

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Superconducting systems exhibit non-reciprocal current transport under certain conditions of symmetry breaking, a phenomenon known as the superconducting diode effect. This effect allows for perfect rectification of supercurrent, and has…

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

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

We study the superconducting Josephson junction diode operating via the magnetic field of skyrmions. Inspired by the near-field optical microscopy, we propose to partially screen the magnetic field and analyze part-by-part the magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-17 A. Sinner , X. -G. Wang , S. S. P. Parkin , A. Ernst , V. Dugaev , L. Chotorlishvili

In typical Josephson junctions, the Josephson current is an odd function of the superconducting phase difference. Recently, diode effect in Josephson junctions is observed in experiments wherein the maximum and the minimum values of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-08 Abhiram Soori

The Josephson junction is typically tuned by a magnetic field or electrostatic gates to realize a superconducting transistor, which manipulates the supercurrent in integrated superconducting circuits. However, this tunable method does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Guo-Jian Qiao , Zhi-Lei Zhang , Sheng-Wen Li , C. P. Sun

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that incorporate two superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions in a closed loop form the core of some of the most sensitive detectors of magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Taewan Noh , Andrew Kindseth , Venkat Chandrasekhar

Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are one of the most popular devices in superconducting electronics. They combine the Josephson effect with the quantization of magnetic flux in superconductors. This gives rise to one of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-21 M. J. Martínez-Pérez , D. Koelle

The Josephson diode effect (JDE) has attracted significant attention for enabling directional, dissipationless supercurrents, positioning Josephson junctions as promising building blocks for next-generation quantum devices. Hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ardamon Sten , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh

In a SQUID tuned away from half-integer flux (in units of the superconducting flux quantum), the concurrence of multiple Josephson harmonics and an asymmetry between the junctions leads to the Josephson diode effect -- a nonreciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 M. Houzet , T. Vakhtel , J. S. Meyer

We theoretically study the superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson junction. The diode effect in superconducting systems is typically related to the presence of a difference in the critical currents for currents flowing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-07 Jorge Huamani Correa , Michal P. Nowak

In the presence of an external magnetic field Cooper pairs in noncentrosymmetric superconductors can acquire finite momentum. Recent theory predicts that such finite-momentum pairing can lead to an asymmetric critical current, where a…

A planar Josephson junction with a normal metal attached on its top surface will form a hollow nanowire structure due to its three dimensional nature. In such hollow nanowire structure, the magnetic flux induced by a small magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-12-25 Jie Liu , Yijia Wu , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Efficient, scalable, and magnetic-field-free superconducting diodes are essential for future superconducting electronics; yet, despite significant efforts, such practical devices remain unrealized. The main challenge lies in achieving…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Taras Golod , Amirreza Lotfian , Vladimir M. Krasnov