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 …

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 …

Singlet and triplet Cooper pair splitting in hybrid superconducting nanowires

G Wang, T Dvir, GP Mazur, CX Liu, N van Loo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In most naturally occurring superconductors, electrons with opposite spins form Cooper
pairs. This includes both conventional s-wave superconductors such as aluminium, as well …

Direct observation of a superconducting vortex diode

A Gutfreund, H Matsuki, V Plastovets, A Noah… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional
proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted …

Cubic spin-orbit coupling and anomalous Josephson effect in planar junctions

M Alidoust, C Shen, I Žutić - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional systems is usually characterized by Rashba and
Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) linear in the wave vector. However, there is a …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting spintronics with superconductivity

G Yang, C Ciccarelli, JWA Robinson - APL Materials, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Spintronics aims to utilize the spin degree of freedom for energy-efficient, non-volatile
memory and logic devices. In this research update, we review state-of-the-art developments …

Magnetoelectric effects in Josephson junctions

IV Bobkova, AM Bobkov, MA Silaev - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The review is devoted to the fundamental aspects and characteristic features of the
magnetoelectric effects, reported in the literature on Josephson junctions (JJs). The main …

Large enhancement of spin pumping due to the surface bound states in normal metal–superconductor structures

MA Silaev - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We show that the spin pumping from ferromagnetic insulator into the adjacent metallic spin
sink can be strongly stimulated by the superconducting correlations. The key physical …

Coexistence and tuning of spin-singlet and triplet transport in spin-filter Josephson junctions

HG Ahmad, M Minutillo, R Capecelatro, A Pal… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The increased capabilities of coupling more and more materials through functional
interfaces are paving the way to a series of exciting experiments and extremely advanced …

Microwave spectroscopy of interacting Andreev spins

JJ Wesdorp, FJ Matute-Cañadas, A Vaartjes… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Andreev bound states are fermionic states localized in weak links between superconductors
which can be occupied with spinful quasiparticles. Microwave experiments using …