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Nonreciprocal transport in superconducting systems serves as a powerful probe of symmetry-breaking mechanisms, with the superconducting diode effect emerging as a key manifestation enabling cryogenic rectification. While theoretical models…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu He , Zifeng Wang , Jiaxu Li , Fenglin Zhong , Haozhe Yang , Kewen Shi , Le Wang , Guang Yang , Weisheng Zhao

Non-reciprocal superconductivity, also known as the superconducting diode effect, has been extensively studied in the presence of a magnetic field or some form of ferromagnetic order breaking time-reversal symmetry. We here show that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-31 Sayan Banerjee , Mathias S. Scheurer

Non-centrosymmetric superconductors have emerged as a fascinating avenue for exploring unconventional superconductivity. Their broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries make them prime candidates for realizing the intrinsic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-17 R. K. Kushwaha , Arushi , S. Jangid , P. K. Meena , R. Stewart , A. D. Hillier , R. P. Singh

The significance of the superconducting diode effect lies in its potential application as a fundamental component in the development of next-generation superconducting circuit technology. The stringent operating conditions at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yiwen Zhang , Jiliang Cai , Peng Dong , Jiadian He , Yifan Ding , Jinghui Wang , Xiang Zhou , Kecheng Cao , Yueshen Wu , Jun Li

Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) generally emerge in superconducting systems where both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken, showing nonreciprocal current characteristics: nondissipative in one direction and ohmic in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Jiajun Ma , Ruiya Zhan , Xiao Lin

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…

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

Non-reciprocal electronic transport in a material occurs if both time reversal and inversion symmetries are broken. The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is an exotic manifestation of this type of behavior where the critical current for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-19 M. S. Anwar , T. Nakamura , R. Ishiguro , S. Arif , J. W. A. Robinson , S. Yonezawa , M. Sigrist , Y. Maeno

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…

In cuprate superconductors, tunneling between planes makes possible three-dimensional coherent transport. However, the interlayer tunnelling amplitude is reduced when an order-parameter phase gradient between planes is established. As such,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Dienst , M. C. Hoffmann , D. Fausti , J. Petersen , S. Pyon , T. Takayama , H. Takagi , A. Cavalleri

The superconducting diode effect has been recently reported in a variety of systems and different symmetry breaking mechanisms have been examined. However, the frequency range of these potentially important devices still remains obscure. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-23 Sara Chahid , Serafim Teknowijoyo , Iris Mowgood , Armen Gulian

Superconductors that spontaneously break time-reversal symmetry host complex order parameters and are widely regarded as a hallmark of unconventional superconductivity. Whether such symmetry breaking can also arise in superconductors with…

Nonreciprocal charge transport in heterostructural superconductors exhibits appealing quantum physical phenomena and holds the promising potential for superconducting circuits applications. Realizing a nonreciprocity is, however,…

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,…

Nonreciprocal transport effects can occur in the normal state of conductors and in superconductors when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken. Here, we consider systems where magnetochiral anisotropy (MCA) of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Georg Angehrn , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Nonreciprocal or nonlinear responses in symmetry-broken systems are powerful probes of emergent properties in quantum materials, including superconductors, magnets, and topological materials. Recently, vortex matter has been recognized as a…

Superconducting materials with noncentrosymmetric lattices lacking space inversion symmetry exhibit a variety of interesting parity-breaking phenomena, including the magneto-electric effect, spin-polarized currents, helical states, and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-11-30 Julien Garaud , Maxim N. Chernodub , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Symmetry plays a critical role in determining various properties of a material. Semiconducting p-n junction diode exemplifies the engineered skew electronic response and is at the heart of contemporary electronic circuits. The…

Nonreciprocal superconductivity, also called as superconducting diode effect that spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry, is characterized by asymmetric critical currents under opposite applied current directions. This distinct state…

Nonreciprocal charge transport phenomena are widely studied in two-dimensional superconductors, which demonstrate unidirectional-anisotropy magnetoresistances as a result of symmetry breaking. Here, we report a strong nonreciprocal…