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The superconducting diode is an emergent device that juggles between the Cooper-paired state and the resistive state with unpaired quasiparticles. Here, we report a quantum version of the superconducting diode, which operates solely between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-30 Heng Wang , Yuying Zhu , Zhonghua Bai , Zhaozheng Lyu , Jiangang Yang , Lin Zhao , X. J. Zhou , Genda Gu , Qi-Kun Xue , Ding Zhang

Superconducting quantum circuits must be designed carefully to avoid dissipation from coupling to external control circuitry. Here we introduce the concept of current transformation to quantify coupling to the environment. We test this…

Historically, noise in superconducting circuits has been considered an obstacle to be removed. A large fraction of the research effort in designing superconducting circuits has focused on noise reduction, with great success, as coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Eliot Kapit

Introducing new components and functionalities into quantum devices is critical in advancing state-of-the-art hardware. Here, we propose superconducting diodes (SDs) as a coherent nonreciprocal element in circuit quantum electrodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Nicolas Dirnegger , Prineha Narang , Arpit Arora

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

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…

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…

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…

In the endeavour to make quantum computers a reality, integrated superconducting circuits have become a promising architecture. A major challenge of this approach is decoherence originating from spurious atomic tunneling defects at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Jürgen Lisenfeld , Alexander Bilmes , Alexey V. Ustinov

Artificial atoms realized by superconducting circuits offer unique opportunities to store and process quantum information with high fidelity. Among them, implementations of circuits that harness intrinsic noise protection have been rapidly…

Superconducting thin-film electronics are attractive for their low power consumption, fast operating speeds, and ease of interface with cryogenic systems such as single-photon detector arrays, and quantum computing devices. However, the…

Engineering artificial systems by twisting and stacking van der Waals materials has proven to be an excellent platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena that can be significantly different from the constituents. Recent advances in…

Quantum sensing and computation can be realized with superconducting microwave circuits. Qubits are engineered quantum systems of capacitors and inductors with non-linear Josephson junctions. They operate in the single-excitation quantum…

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

The superconducting diode effect (SDE)-the unidirectional, dissipationless flow of supercurrent-is a critical element for future superconducting electronics. Achieving high efficiency under zero magnetic field is a key requirement. The…

Multi-mode superconducting circuits offer a promising platform for engineering robust systems for quantum computation. Previous studies indicate that single-mode devices cannot be engineered to simultaneously exhibit resilience against…

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…

This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Superconducting diodes, characterized by the nonreciprocal supercurrent flow, have gained significant attention for their potential in dissipationless electronics. This study presents a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-28 Xingjun Wu , Ji-Yin Wang , Haitian Su , Shili Yan , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , Po Zhang , H. Q. Xu

Superconducting electronics is essential for energy-efficient quantum and classical high-end computing applications. Towards this goal, non-reciprocal superconducting circuit elements, such as superconducting diodes (SDs) can fulfill many…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-05 Josep Ingla-Aynés , Yasen Hou , Sarah Wang , En-De Chu , Oleg A. Mukhanov , Peng Wei , Jagadeesh S. Moodera
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