Parity-conserving Cooper-pair transport and ideal superconducting diode in planar germanium

M Valentini, O Sagi, L Baghumyan, T de Gijsel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Superconductor/semiconductor hybrid devices have attracted increasing interest in the past
years. Superconducting electronics aims to complement semiconductor technology, while …

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 …

Superconducting diode effect sign change in epitaxial Al-InAs Josephson junctions

N Lotfizadeh, WF Schiela, B Pekerten, P Yu… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
There has recently been a surge of interest in studying the superconducting diode effect
(SDE) partly due to the possibility of uncovering the intrinsic properties of a material system …

Superconducting diode effect in quasi-one-dimensional systems

T de Picoli, Z Blood, Y Lyanda-Geller, JI Väyrynen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The recent observations of the superconducting diode effect pose the challenge to fully
understand the necessary ingredients for nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductors. In …

Enhancing the Josephson diode effect with Majorana bound states

J Cayao, N Nagaosa, Y Tanaka - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We consider phase-biased Josephson junctions with spin-orbit coupling under external
magnetic fields and study the emergence of the Josephson diode effect in the presence of …

Nonsinusoidal current-phase relations in semiconductor–superconductor–ferromagnetic insulator devices

A Maiani, K Flensberg, M Leijnse, C Schrade… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Coherent tunneling processes of multiple Cooper pairs across a Josephson junction give
rise to high harmonics in the current phase relation. In this work, we propose and study …

Interference, diffraction, and diode effects in superconducting array based on bismuth antimony telluride topological insulator

X Song, S Suresh Babu, Y Bai, DS Golubev… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
It is well-known in optics that the spectroscopic resolution of a diffraction grating is much
better compared to an interference device having just two slits, as in Young's famous double …

Tuning the Josephson diode response with an ac current

R Seoane Souto, M Leijnse, C Schrade, M Valentini… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Josephson diodes are superconducting elements that show an asymmetry in the critical
current depending on the direction of the current. Here, we theoretically explore how an …

Nonreciprocal charge transport and subharmonic structure in voltage-biased Josephson diodes

A Zazunov, J Rech, T Jonckheere, B Grémaud, T Martin… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study charge transport in voltage-biased single-channel junctions involving helical
superconductors with finite Cooper pair momentum. For a Josephson junction, the …

Strong nonlocal tuning of the current-phase relation of a quantum dot based Andreev molecule

M Kocsis, Z Scherübl, G Fülöp, P Makk, S Csonka - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recent realization of minimal Kitaev chains brought a breakthrough in Majorana research,
which made arrays of quantum dots coupled by superconductor spacers the most promising …