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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

The field-free Josephson diode in a van der Waals heterostructure

H Wu, Y Wang, Y Xu, PK Sivakumar, C Pasco… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The superconducting analogue to the semiconducting diode, the Josephson diode, has long
been sought with multiple avenues to realization being proposed by theorists,–. Showing …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe2

L Bauriedl, C Bäuml, L Fuchs, C Baumgartner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nonreciprocal transport refers to charge transfer processes that are sensitive to the bias
polarity. Until recently, nonreciprocal transport was studied only in dissipative systems …

Field-free superconducting diode effect in noncentrosymmetric superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers

H Narita, J Ishizuka, R Kawarazaki, D Kan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The diode effect is fundamental to electronic devices and is widely used in rectifiers and ac–
dc converters. At low temperatures, however, conventional semiconductor diodes possess a …

Observation of superconducting diode effect

F Ando, Y Miyasaka, T Li, J Ishizuka, T Arakawa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical and electrical effects associated with a lack of spatial inversion symmetry
allow direction-selective propagation and transport of quantum particles, such as photons …

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 …

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 …