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 …

Link between supercurrent diode and anomalous Josephson effect revealed by gate-controlled interferometry

S Reinhardt, T Ascherl, A Costa, J Berger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In Josephson diodes the asymmetry between positive and negative current branch of the
current-phase relation leads to a polarity-dependent critical current and Josephson …

Flux-tunable Josephson diode effect in a hybrid four-terminal Josephson junction

M Coraiola, AE Svetogorov, DZ Haxell, D Sabonis… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate the direction-dependent switching current in a flux-tunable four-terminal
Josephson junction defined in an InAs/Al two-dimensional heterostructure. The device …

Parity-protected superconducting diode effect in topological Josephson junctions

HF Legg, K Laubscher, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
In bulk superconductors or Josephson junctions formed in materials with spin-orbit
interaction, the critical current can depend on the direction of current flow or of applied …

Superconducting diode effect sign change in epitaxial Al-InAs Josephson junctions

N Lotfizadeh, WF Schiela, B Pekerten, P Yu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
There has recently been a surge of interest in studying the superconducting diode effect
(SDE) partly due to the possibility of uncovering the intrinsic properties of a material system …

Nonreciprocal charge transport and subharmonic structure in voltage-biased Josephson diodes

A Zazunov, J Rech, T Jonckheere, B Grémaud, T Martin… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study charge transport in voltage-biased single-channel junctions involving helical
superconductors with finite Cooper pair momentum. For a Josephson junction, the …

Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …

Nonreciprocal superconductivity

M Davydova, M Geier, L Fu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
We introduce the notion of nonreciprocal superconductors where inversion and time-
reversal symmetries are broken, giving rise to an asymmetric energy dispersion. We …

Magnetotransport and Spin-Relaxation Signatures of the Radial Rashba and Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling in Proximitized Graphene

WH Kang, M Barth, A Costa, A Garcia-Ruiz… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures take advantage of tailoring spin-orbit
coupling (SOC) in the graphene layer by the proximity effect. At long wavelength—saddled …

Zeeman-and orbital-driven phase shifts in planar Josephson junctions

DZ Haxell, M Coraiola, D Sabonis, M Hinderling… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We perform supercurrent and tunneling spectroscopy measurements on gate-tunable
InAs/Al Josephson junctions (JJs) in an in-plane magnetic field and report on phase shifts in …