The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

Sign reversal of the Josephson inductance magnetochiral anisotropy and 0–π-like transitions in supercurrent diodes

A Costa, C Baumgartner, S Reinhardt, J Berger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recent discovery of the intrinsic supercurrent diode effect, and its prompt observation in
a rich variety of systems, has shown that non-reciprocal supercurrents naturally emerge …

Diamagnetic mechanism of critical current non-reciprocity in multilayered superconductors

A Sundaresh, JI Väyrynen, Y Lyanda-Geller… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The suggestion that non-reciprocal critical current (NRC) may be an intrinsic property of non-
centrosymmetric superconductors has generated renewed theoretical and experimental …

Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers

C Ciaccia, R Haller, ACC Drachmann… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The Josephson diode (JD) is a nonreciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical
current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained growing interest …

Altermagnetic superconducting diode effect

S Banerjee, MS Scheurer - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Nonreciprocal 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 …

Superconducting diode effect and nonreciprocal transition lines

A Daido, Y Yanase - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Nonreciprocity in superconductors is attracting much interest owing to its fundamental
importance as well as the potential applicability to engineering. In this paper, we generalize …

Phase engineering of anomalous Josephson effect derived from Andreev molecules

S Matsuo, T Imoto, T Yokoyama, Y Sato… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
A Josephson junction (JJ) is a key device for developing superconducting circuits, wherein a
supercurrent in the JJ is controlled by the phase difference between the two …

Diode effects in current-biased Josephson junctions

JF Steiner, L Melischek, M Trahms, KJ Franke… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Current-biased Josephson junctions exhibit hysteretic transitions between dissipative and
superconducting states as characterized by switching and retrapping currents. Here, we …

Sign reversal diode effect in superconducting Dayem nanobridges

D Margineda, A Crippa, E Strambini, Y Fukaya… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Supercurrent diodes are nonreciprocal electronic elements whose switching current
depends on their flow direction. Recently, a variety of composite systems combining different …

Demonstration of the nonlocal Josephson effect in Andreev molecules

DZ Haxell, M Coraiola, M Hinderling, SC Ten Kate… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
We perform switching current measurements of planar Josephson junctions (JJs) coupled by
a common superconducting electrode with independent control over the two …