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 …

New dimension in magnetism and superconductivity: 3D and curvilinear nanoarchitectures

D Makarov, OM Volkov, A Kákay… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Traditionally, the primary field, where curvature has been at the heart of research, is the
theory of general relativity. In recent studies, however, the impact of curvilinear geometry …

Superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures: a platform for superconducting spintronics and quantum computation

R Cai, I Žutić, W Han - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the superconductor/
ferromagnet (SC/FM) heterostructures generates many interesting physical phenomena …

Spin current as a probe of quantum materials

W Han, S Maekawa, XC Xie - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Spin current historically referred to the flow of electrons carrying spin information, in
particular since the discovery of giant magnetoresistance in the 1980s. Recently, it has been …

Writing 3D nanomagnets using focused electron beams

A Fernández-Pacheco, L Skoric, JM De Teresa… - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) is a direct-write nanofabrication
technique able to pattern three-dimensional magnetic nanostructures at resolutions …

Electrical detection of spin pumping in van der Waals ferromagnetic Cr2Ge2Te6 with low magnetic damping

H Xu, K Jia, Y Huang, F Meng, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The discovery of magnetic order in atomically-thin van der Waals materials has
strengthened the alliance between spintronics and two-dimensional materials. An important …

Magnon–fluxon interaction in a ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructure

OV Dobrovolskiy, R Sachser, T Brächer, T Böttcher… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Ferromagnetism and superconductivity are most fundamental phenomena in condensed-
matter physics. Entailing opposite spin orders, they share an important conceptual similarity …

Colloquium: Spin-orbit effects in superconducting hybrid structures

M Amundsen, J Linder, JWA Robinson, I Žutić… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) relates to the interaction between an electron's motion and its spin
and is ubiquitous in solid-state systems. Although the effect of SOC in normal-state …

Ultra-fast vortex motion in a direct-write Nb-C superconductor

OV Dobrovolskiy, DY Vodolazov, F Porrati… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ultra-fast dynamics of superconducting vortices harbors rich physics generic to
nonequilibrium collective systems. The phenomenon of flux-flow instability (FFI), however …

Observation of orbital pumping

H Hayashi, D Go, S Haku, Y Mokrousov, K Ando - Nature Electronics, 2024 - nature.com
Electrons carry both spin and orbital angular momentum. The search for phenomena that
generate a flow of spin angular momentum—a spin current—has led to the development of …