English
Related papers

Related papers: Proposals for realizing a Josephson diode in Atomt…

200 papers

The Josephson effect is a prominent phenomenon of quantum supercurrents that has been widely studied in superconductors and superfluids. Typical Josephson junctions consist of two real-space superconductors (superfluids) coupled through a…

We consider the far-from-equilibrium quantum transport dynamics in a 1D Josephson junction chain of multi-mode Bose-Einstein condensates. We develop a theoretical model to examine the experiment of R. Labouvie et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-14 Samuel E. Begg , Matthew J. Davis , Matthew T. Reeves

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 effect presents a fundamental example of macroscopic quantum coherence as well as a crucial enabler for metrology (e.g. voltage standard), sensing (e.g. Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) and quantum information…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-03 Nalinikanta Pradhan , Rina Kanamoto , M. Bhattacharya , Pankaj Kumar Mishra

We study the Josephson effect between atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. By drawing on an electrostatic analogy, we derive a semiclassical functional expression for the three-dimensional Josephson coupling energy in terms of the condensate…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ivar Zapata , Fernando Sols , Anthony J. Leggett

The Josephson effect is a macroscopic quantum tunneling phenomenon in a system with superfluid property, when it is split into two parts by a barrier. Here, we examine the Josephson effect in a driven-dissipative supersolid realized by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-28 Jieli Qin , Shijie Li , Yijia Tu , Maokun Gu , Lin Guan , Weimin Xu , Lu Zhou

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

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

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 intrinsic Josephson diode effect (JDE) has recently attracted considerable attention due to its sensitivity to broken symmetries in Josephson junctions, offering a powerful probe for uncovering hidden symmetry-breaking mechanisms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yan-Liang Hou , An-Qi Wang , Na Li , Chun-Guang Chu , Alexander Brinkman , Zhi-Min Liao , Chuan Li

We study the Josephson junction where nonreciprocal critical current was induced by the interplay of the $4\pi$-periodic and $2\pi$-periodic current-phase relation of the junction. We take the model of a topological junction which serves as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-15 Huarong Zhong , Zhi Wang

Motivated by recent progress in the superconductivity nonreciprocal phenomena, we study the general theory of Josephson diodes. The central ingredient for Josephson diodes is the asymmetric proximity process inside the tunneling barrier.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-04 Yi Zhang , Yuhao Gu , Pengfei Li , Jiangping Hu , Kun Jiang

The recent discovery of intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in a rich variety of systems, has shown that nonreciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge when both space- and time-inversion symmetries are broken. In…

We investigate the Josephson diode effect in a superconducting interferometer under nonequilibrium conditions. In contrast to its thermodynamic counterpart, which requires the simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Daniel Shaffer , Songci Li , Jaglul Hasan , Mikhail Titov , Alex Levchenko

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

In the recent years it has been possible to achieve diode-like, non-reciprocal current-voltage response in Josephson junctions, despite the intrinsic symmetry of the Josephson effect itself. This is typically achieved by incorporating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Debashree Nayak , Dimple Rani , Prasanjit Samal , Kartik Senapati

We study the Josephson-like tunneling in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates coupled with microwave field in respond to various attractive and repulsive atomic interaction under the various aspect ratio of trapping potential and the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Xiong , X. X. Liu

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…

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…

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,…