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 …

Zero-field polarity-reversible Josephson supercurrent diodes enabled by a proximity-magnetized Pt barrier

KR Jeon, JK Kim, J Yoon, JC Jeon, H Han, A Cottet… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetries in a conductor yields a
non-reciprocal electronic transport,–, known as the diode or rectification effect, that is, low …

Intrinsic superconducting diode effect

A Daido, Y Ikeda, Y Yanase - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Stimulated by the recent experiment [F. Ando, Nature (London) 584, 373 (2020). NATUAS
0028-0836 10.1038/s41586-020-2590-4], we propose an intrinsic mechanism to cause the …

Supercurrent diode effect and finite-momentum superconductors

NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a
superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work, we show that, in certain classes of two …

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 …

A phenomenological theory of superconductor diodes

JJ He, Y Tanaka, N Nagaosa - New Journal of Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric systems contain a broad range of
phenomena. Especially, non-dissipative and coherent nonreciprocal transport in solids is an …

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 …

Gate-tunable Josephson diode in proximitized InAs supercurrent interferometers

C Ciaccia, R Haller, ACC Drachmann… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The Josephson diode (JD) is a nonreciprocal circuit element that supports a larger critical
current in one direction compared to the other. This effect has gained growing interest …