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 …

Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …

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 …

Scalable energy-efficient magnetoelectric spin–orbit logic

S Manipatruni, DE Nikonov, CC Lin, TA Gosavi, H Liu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Since the early 1980s, most electronics have relied on the use of complementary metal–
oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) transistors. However, the principles of CMOS operation …

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 …

Oxide spin-orbitronics: spin–charge interconversion and topological spin textures

F Trier, P Noël, JV Kim, JP Attané, L Vila… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Oxide materials possess a vast range of functional properties, ranging from
superconductivity to multiferroicity, that stem from the interplay between the lattice, charge …

Observation of the orbital inverse Rashba–Edelstein effect

A El Hamdi, JY Chauleau, M Boselli, C Thibault… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The spin–orbit interaction plays an important role in magnetism and in many quantum
materials. It is the cornerstone of the physics of many electronic phases that emerge at …

Highly efficient and tunable spin-to-charge conversion through Rashba coupling at oxide interfaces

E Lesne, Y Fu, S Oyarzún, JC Rojas-Sánchez… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The spin–orbit interaction couples the electrons' motion to their spin. As a result, a charge
current running through a material with strong spin–orbit coupling generates a transverse …

Maximizing spin-orbit torque generated by the spin Hall effect of Pt

L Zhu, DC Ralph, RA Buhrman - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Efficient generation of spin–orbit torques is central for the exciting field of spin-orbitronics.
Platinum, the archetypal spin Hall material, has the potential to be an outstanding provider …

Observation of the orbital Rashba-Edelstein magnetoresistance

S Ding, Z Liang, D Go, C Yun, M Xue, Z Liu, S Becker… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We report the observation of magnetoresistance (MR) that could originate from the orbital
angular momentum (OAM) transport in a permalloy (Py)/oxidized Cu (Cu*) heterostructure …