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The superconducting diode effect refers to an asymmetry in the critical supercurrent $J_c(\hat{n})$ along opposite directions, $J_c(\hat{n})\neq J_c(-\hat{n})$. While the basic symmetry requirements for this effect are known, it is, for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-24 Sayan Banerjee , Mathias S. Scheurer

We predict a field-free transverse Josephson diode effect in altermagnets (AMs) with Rashba spin--orbit coupling, achieving diode efficiencies exceeding $3000\%$ and unidirectional transverse supercurrents in four-terminal junctions. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Bijay Kumar Sahoo , Abhiram Soori

Superconducting electronics offer significant advantages in speed and power efficiency for next-generation computing and communication systems. However, their practical deployment is limited by the absence of simple, efficient, and scalable…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-01 Razmik A. Hovhannisyan , Amirreza Lotfian , Taras Golod , Vladimir M. Krasnov

A formula for the Josephson current between two superconductors with anisotropic pairing symmetries is derived based on the mean-field theory of superconductivity. Zero-energy states formed at the junction interfaces is one of basic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Asano

Via a direct coupling between the magnetic order parameter and the singlet Josephson supercurrent, we detect spin-wave resonances, and their dispersion, in ferromagnetic Josephson junctions in which the usual insulating or metallic barrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Petkovic , M. Aprili , S. E. Barnes , F. Beuneu , S. Maekawa

We analyze the presence of non-reciprocal critical currents, the so-called superconducting diode effect, in chiral superconductors within a generalized Ginzburg-Landau framework. After deriving its key symmetry conditions we illustrate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-13 Bastian Zinkl , Keita Hamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We study theoretically dynamics in a Josephson junction coupled to a mechanical resonator looking at the signatures of the resonance in d.c. electrical response of the junction. Such a system can be realized experimentally as a suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-07 C. Padurariu , C. J. H. Keijzers , Yu. V. Nazarov

We investigate theoretically the Josephson junction of semiconductor nanowire with strong spin-orbit (SO) interaction in the presence of magnetic field. By using a tight-binding model, the energy levels $E_n$ of Andreev bound states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto , Yuli V. Nazarov

We discuss an experiment in which two magnetic insulators that both show a field-induced magnetic-ordering transition are weakly coupled to one another and are placed into an ex- ternal magnetic field. If the respective magnetic states can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-18 Andreas Schilling , Henrik Grundmann

We study the Josephson effect in D/I/DN/I/D junctions, where I, DN and D denote an insulator, a diffusive normal metal and a d-wave superconductor, respectively.The Josephson current is calculated based on the quasiclassical Green's…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov , Y. Asano

We unveil a mechanism that enables a robust supercurrent diode effect in Josephson junctions based on multiband superconductors. We predict that interband pairing can significantly amplifies this effect, even under weak spin-orbit coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiong Mei , Shengshan Qin , Jiangping Hu

Charge and spin transport in a junction involving two triplet superconductors and a ferromagnetic barrier are studied. We use Bogoliubov-de Gennes wavefunctions to construct the Green's function, from which we obtain the Josephson currents…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-01-12 Bogusz Bujnowski , Carsten Timm , P. M. R. Brydon

We consider s-wave pairing in a double layer of two chiral metals due to Coulomb interaction, and study the Josephson effect near a domain wall, where the sign of the order parameter jumps. The domain wall creates two zero energy modes,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-18 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner , Yu. E. Lozovik

In superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), the superconducting diode effect may be generated by interference of multiple harmonic components in the current-phase relationships (CPRs) of different branches forming SQUID loops.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Wyatt Gibbons , Teng Zhang , Kevin Barrow , Tyler Lindemann , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Michael J. Manfra

We show that frustrated spin textures can generate anisotropic Josephson couplings between $d$ vectors that can stabilize spatially varying pairing orders in spin triplet superconductors. These couplings depend on the relative orientation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-19 Grayson R. Frazier , Yi Li

It is well established that superconductivity is based on a coherent quantum state of Cooper pairs with charge 2e, and this is equally true of the Josephson effect. In contrast, Kadin recently presented an alternative real-space model of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-08-02 Alan M. Kadin

We study theoretically the properties of SIFS type Josephson junctions composed of two superconducting (S) electrodes separated by an insulating layer (I) and a ferromagnetic (F) film consisting of periodic magnetic domains structure with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-30 S. V. Bakurskiy , A. A. Golubov , N. V. Klenov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov , I. I. Soloviev

In analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of…

We analyze theoretically the influence of domain walls (DWs) on the DC Josephson current in magnetic superconducting S$_{m}$/Fl/F/Fl/S$_{m}$ junctions. The Josephson junction consists of two "magnetic" superconductors S$_{m}$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-06 Samme M. Dahir , Anatoly F. Volkov , Ilya M. Eremin

Josephson current in SFcFS junctions with arbitrary transparency of the constriction (c) is investigated. The emphasis is done on the analysis of the supercurrent dependencies on the misorientation angle $\theta $ between the in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zaitsev