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 …

Superconductivity and spin–orbit coupling in non-centrosymmetric materials: a review

M Smidman, MB Salamon, HQ Yuan… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In non-centrosymmetric superconductors, where the crystal structure lacks a centre of
inversion, parity is no longer a good quantum number and an electronic antisymmetric spin …

Pauli-limit violation and re-entrant superconductivity in moiré graphene

Y Cao, JM Park, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Moiré quantum matter has emerged as a materials platform in which correlated and
topological phases can be explored with unprecedented control. Among them, magic-angle …

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 …

Field-induced transition within the superconducting state of CeRh2As2

S Khim, JF Landaeta, J Banda, N Bannor, M Brando… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Materials with multiple superconducting phases are rare. Here, we report the discovery of
two-phase unconventional superconductivity in CeRh2As2. Using thermodynamic probes …

Ising pairing in superconducting NbSe2 atomic layers

X Xi, Z Wang, W Zhao, JH Park, KT Law, H Berger… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides arising from strong spin–
orbit interactions and valley-dependent Berry curvature effects have recently attracted …

Evidence for two-dimensional Ising superconductivity in gated MoS2

JM Lu, O Zheliuk, I Leermakers, NFQ Yuan, U Zeitler… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The Zeeman effect, which is usually detrimental to superconductivity, can be strongly
protective when an effective Zeeman field from intrinsic spin-orbit coupling locks the spins of …

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 …

Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides

SC De la Barrera, MR Sinko, DP Gopalan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Systems simultaneously exhibiting superconductivity and spin–orbit coupling are
predicted to provide a route toward topological superconductivity and unconventional …