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Planar Josephson junctions in a magnetic field exhibit the superconducting diode effect, by which the critical current magnitude depends on the polarity of the transport current. A number of different mechanisms for the effect have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 William F. Schiela , Melissa Mikalsen , William M. Strickland , Javad Shabani

We study the key features of the Josephson transport through a curved semiconducting nanowire. Based on numerical simulations and analytical estimates within the framework of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations we find the ground-state phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 A. A. Kopasov , A. G. Kutlin , A. S. Mel'nikov

We study the transport properties of a diffusive Josephson junction between two spin-split superconductors made of superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator bilayers (FIS) on top of a 3D topological insulator (TI). We derive the corresponding…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-21 Tim Kokkeler , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Alexander Golubov

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,…

Integrating conventional superconductors with common III-V semiconductors provides a versatile platform to implement tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) and their applications. We propose that with gate-controlled time-dependent spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-09 David Monroe , Mohammad Alidoust , Igor Žutić

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 diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. Here, we demonstrate an electrothermal-switch superconducting…

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

The superconducting version of a diode effect has been the subject of extensive research in the past few years. So far, the focus has almost exclusively been on charge transport, but a natural question is whether it is possible to obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen , Jacob Linder

In superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), the superconducting diode effect may be generated by interference of multiple harmonic components in the current-phase relationships (CPRs) of different branches forming SQUID loops.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Wyatt Gibbons , Teng Zhang , Kevin Barrow , Tyler Lindemann , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Michael J. Manfra

Nonreciprocal superconducting devices have attracted growing interest in recent years as they potentially enable directional charge transport for applications in superconducting quantum circuits. Specifically, the superconducting diode…

We study the Josephson diode effect in the one-dimensional superconductor/helimagnet/superconductor junctions using the Green's function method. For the spin-singlet $s$-wave pairing in superconductors, it is found that the necessary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-29 Qiang Cheng , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

Semiconducting diode with nonreciprocal transport effect underlies the cornerstone of contemporary integrated circuits (ICs) technology. Due to isotropic superconducting properties and the lack of breaking of inversion symmetry for…

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 evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in supercurrent for…

The simultaneous co-existence and gate-tuneability of the superconducting (SC), magnetic and topological orders in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) open up entirely new possibilities for the creation of complex hybrid Josephson…

We theoretically explore Josephson diode effect (JDE) in superconductor/quantum dot (QD)/superconductor junction in the presence of a magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI). We calculate the Josephson current in our QD…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-08 Debika Debnath , Paramita Dutta

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 propose theoretically a Josephson diode consisting of the conventional superconductors with the plain s-wave pairing and a chiral quantum dot. When an external magnetic field is exerted on the quantum dot, the critical current of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Qiang Cheng , Qing-Feng Sun