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 …

Spin-polarized supercurrents for spintronics: a review of current progress

M Eschrig - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
During the past 15 years a new field has emerged, which combines superconductivity and
spintronics, with the goal to pave a way for new types of devices for applications combining …

Supercurrent rectification and magnetochiral effects in symmetric Josephson junctions

C Baumgartner, L Fuchs, A Costa, S Reinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transport is non-reciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current
depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion …

Josephson diode effect in supercurrent interferometers

RS Souto, M Leijnse, C Schrade - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
A Josephson diode is a nonreciprocal circuit element that supports a larger dissipationless
supercurrent in one direction than in the other. In this Letter, we propose a class of …

Universal Josephson diode effect

M Davydova, S Prembabu, L Fu - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
We propose a universal mechanism for the Josephson diode effect in short Josephson
junctions. The proposed mechanism is due to finite Cooper pair momentum and is a …

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 …

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 …

Coherent manipulation of an Andreev spin qubit

M Hays, V Fatemi, D Bouman, J Cerrillo, S Diamond… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Two promising architectures for solid-state quantum information processing are based on
electron spins electrostatically confined in semiconductor quantum dots and the collective …

Effect of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin–orbit coupling on supercurrent rectification and magnetochiral anisotropy of ballistic Josephson junctions

C Baumgartner, L Fuchs, A Costa… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Simultaneous breaking of inversion-and time-reversal symmetry in Josephson junction (JJ)
leads to a possible violation of the I (φ)=− I (− φ) equality for the current–phase relation. This …

Josephson ϕ0-junction in nanowire quantum dots

DB Szombati, S Nadj-Perge, D Car, SR Plissard… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two
superconducting leads by a thin barrier. This current is driven by a superconducting phase …