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We propose a many-body mechanism for a strong Josephson diode effect (JDE) in an interacting nanoscale SQUID formed by two parallel quantum dots coupled to superconducting leads. Unlike conventional diode behavior, where nonreciprocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Zelei Zhang , Jianxiong Zhai , Yi Zhang , Jiawei Yan

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) has recently been observed in various systems, sparking interest in novel superconducting devices and offering a new platform to probe intrinsic material properties. Josephson junctions with strong…

We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Sjoerd Telkamp , Junting Zhao , Saulius Vaitiekėnas

We study nonreciprocal signatures of Josephson current (JC) in a quantum dot (QD)-based Josephson junction (JJ) that comprises of two periodically driven Kitaev chains (KCs) coupled with an intervening QD. The simultaneous breaking of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Koustav Roy , Gourab Paul , Debika Debnath , Kuntal Bhattacharyya , Saurabh Basu

The supercurrent diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical currents in opposite directions, has been observed with or without magnetic fields, yet mechanisms enabling zero-field SDE without explicit symmetry breaking remain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Yiheng Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , James Jun He

The superconducting diode effect -- the dependence of critical current on its direction -- can arise from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetry in a superconductor and has gained interest for its potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Haixuan Huang , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka I. Väyrynen

We investigate the emergence of nonreciprocal dissipationless supercurrents in one-dimension manifested through the superconducting diode effect (SDE) and the Josephson diode effect (JDE) in the absence of any external magnetic field, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 SVS Sai Ruthvik , Tanay Nag

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

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…

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…

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…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene Josephson junctions (MATBG-JJ) with a gate-tunable valley-polarized weak link exhibit an intrinsic Josephson diode effect originating from broken symmetries associated with valley polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Hadi Mohammed Soufy , Colin Benjamin

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) in topological Josephson junctions. By both analytic and numerical calculations, we find that while a Josephson junction in the topological phase may exhibit higher diode efficiency compared…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-22 Zhaochen Liu , Linghao Huang , Jing Wang

The coherent tunnelling of Cooper pairs across Josephson junctions (JJs) generates a nonlinear inductance that is used extensively in quantum information processors based on superconducting circuits, from setting qubit transition…

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

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…

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 characterize the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in two-dimensional diffusive structures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using the quasiclassical formalism. We consider both homogeneous superconductors and Josephson junctions. In the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-04 Stefan Ilic , Pauli Virtanen , Daniel Crawford , Tero T. Heikkilä , F. Sebastian Bergeret

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

Josephson junctions form the essential non-linearity for almost all superconducting qubits. The junction is formed when two superconducting electrodes come within $\sim$1 nm of each other. Although the capacitance of these electrodes is a…