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 …

Nonreciprocal transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials

N Nagaosa, Y Yanase - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Gate-tunable superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson device

M Gupta, GV Graziano, M Pendharkar, JT Dong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The phenomenon of non-reciprocal critical current in a Josephson device, termed the
Josephson diode effect, has garnered much recent interest. Realization of the diode effect …

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 …

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

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 …

Hybrid helical state and superconducting diode effect in superconductor/ferromagnet/topological insulator heterostructures

T Karabassov, IV Bobkova, AA Golubov, AS Vasenko - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
It is well known that the ground state of homogeneous superconducting systems with spin-
orbit coupling in the presence of the Zeeman field is the so-called helical state, which is …

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 …

Current induced hidden states in Josephson junctions

S Chen, S Park, U Vool, N Maksimovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators
below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on …

Josephson diode effect derived from short-range coherent coupling

S Matsuo, T Imoto, T Yokoyama, Y Sato, T Lindemann… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Typical superconducting materials have both time-reversal symmetry and inversion
symmetry. Devices that break these symmetries are expected to have exotic phenomena …