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The field-free and highly efficient diodes with the nonreciprocity of supercurrent are believed to be the core block of the superconducting computing devices without dissipation. In this paper, we propose a Josephson diode based upon…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-06 Qiang Cheng , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

The phenomenon of non-reciprocal critical current in a Josephson device, termed the Josephson diode effect, has garnered much recent interest. Realization of the diode effect requires inversion symmetry breaking, typically obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Mohit Gupta , Gino V. Graziano , Mihir Pendharkar , Jason T. Dong , Connor P. Dempsey , Chris Palmstrøm , Vlad S. Pribiag

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

We study a multi-terminal Josephson junction consisting of a central spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) region with an in-plane Zeeman field connected to four superconducting terminals. This setup allows for the simultaneous measurement of both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

Superconducting devices with broken time-reversal and spatial-inversion symmetries can exhibit novel superconducting phenomena. The observation of superconducting diode effects, which is applicable for dissipationless rectification,…

We present a systematic study of the spin-resolved Josephson diode effect (JDE) in strongly spin-polarized ferromagnets (sFM) coupled to singlet superconductors (SC) via ferromagnetic insulating interfaces (FI). All metallic parts are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-03 Niklas L. Schulz , Danilo Nikolić , Matthias Eschrig

The Josephson diode effect (JDE), a nonreciprocal supercurrent, is a cornerstone for future dissipationless electronics, yet achieving high efficiency in a simple device architecture remains a significant challenge. Here, we theoretically…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Guo-Liang Guo , Xiao-Hong Pan , Hao Dong , Xin Liu

Superconducting systems that simultaneously lack space-inversion and time-reversal symmetries have recently been the subject of a flurry of experimental and theoretical research activities. Their ability to carry supercurrents with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian , Denis Kochan

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

Superconducting diode effect (SDE) with nonreciprocal supercurrent transport has attracted intense attention recently, not only for its intriguing physics, but also for its great application potential in superconducting circuits. It is…

We present a theoretical study of the spin-resolved Josephson diode effect in junctions comprising strongly spin-polarized conical magnets (FM) coupled to singlet superconductors (SC). The system is treated by making use of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-11 Danilo Nikolić , Niklas L. Schulz , Alexander I. Buzdin , Matthias Eschrig

We theoretically investigate the magnetic and crystalline anisotropies of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in proximitized planar Josephson junctions (JJs) with coexisting Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) under an…

Recent Josephson tunneling experiments on twisted flakes of high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ revealed a non-reciprocal behavior of the critical interlayer Josephson current - i.e., a Josephson diode effect.…

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 study the Josephson effect in the spin-singlet superconductor/altermagnet/spin-triplet superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. The current-phase difference relationships in the junctions strongly depend on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-06 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

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

We report low-temperature measurements of two adjacent, gate-defined Josephson junctions (JJs) in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) at a moir\'e filling factor near $\nu = -2$. We show that both junctions exhibit a prominent,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Rothstein , R. J. Dolleman , L. Klebl , A. Achtermann , F. Volmer , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , F. Hassler , L. Banszerus , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

We theoretically propose a mechanism to realize the superconducting diode effect (SDE): The current can generate a magnetic field, affecting the magnetic moment of magnetic impurity. When the connection region of the Josephson junction is…

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

Josephson diodes (JDs) offer a promising route towards realizing dissipation-less rectification at low temperatures. To be practically viable, a JD must operate at zero magnetic fields, exhibit high operating frequencies and efficiency, and…