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The prospect of coupling a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor heterostructure to a superconductor opens new research and technology opportunities, including fundamental problems in mesoscopic superconductivity, scalable superconducting…

Recently the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has attracted a lot of attention due to new possibilities in the field of superconducting electronics. One of the possible realizations of the SDE is the implementation in superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-02 T. Karabassov , I. V. Bobkova , V. M. Silkin , B. G. Lvov , A. A. Golubov , A. S. Vasenko

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

We investigate intrinsic superconducting diode effect in the unconventional superconducting state of $d$-wave altermagnets. We find large diode efficiencies in the wide-reaching finite-momentum pairing regimes of the phase diagram.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-16 Debmalya Chakraborty , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Diode is one of basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response, associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of superconducting diodes operational at zero magnetic field. They…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-02 T. Golod , V. M. Krasnov

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…

Nonreciprocal quantum transport effect is mainly governed by the symmetry breaking of the material systems and is gaining extensive attention in condensed matter physics. Realizing electrical switching of the polarity of the nonreciprocal…

Odd-frequency superconductivity represents a truly unconventional ordered state which, in contrast to conventional superconductivity, exhibits pair correlations which are odd in relative time and, hence, inherently dynamical. In this review…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Jorge Cayao , Christopher Triola , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

We study the emergence of multiband superconductivity with $s$- and $d-$wave symmetry on the background of spin density wave (SDW). We show that the SDW coherence factors renormalize the momentum dependence of the superconducting (SC) gap,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 J. -P. Ismer , Ilya Eremin , Enrico Rossi , Dirk K. Morr , G. Blumberg

Supercurrent diodes are nonreciprocal electronic elements whose switching current depends on their flow direction. Recently, a variety of composite systems combining different materials and engineered asymmetric superconducting devices have…

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

We review the recent progress in understanding the properties of spin-split superconductors under non-equilibrium conditions. Recent experiments and theories demonstrate a rich variety of transport phenomena occurring in devices based on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-01 F. Sebastian Bergeret , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkila

A novel concept for the design of nonlinear optical diodes is proposed which uses the multistability of coupled nonlinear microcavities and the dependence of switching thresholds on the direction of incidence. A typical example of such…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-31 Victor Grigoriev , Fabio Biancalana

Recent proposals for the realization of time-reversal symmetry breaking and topological superconductivity in twisted nodal superconductors have led to a surge of theoretical and experimental studies of these systems, marking one of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 J. H. Pixley , Pavel A. Volkov

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…

The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in which a…

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

We investigate the Josephson diode effect (JDE) within quasi-2D planar systems featuring the $C_{1v}$ spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman fields in the normal region. Our analysis is based on experimental observations conducted on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-29 Gongqi Wang , Jianjian Miao , Wei-Qiang Chen

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

The spin-orbital polarization of superconducting excitations in momentum space is shown to provide distinctive marks of unconventional pairing in the presence of inversion symmetry breaking.Taking the prototypical example of an electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-02 Yuri Fukaya , Shun Tamura , Keiji Yada , Yukio Tanaka , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco