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 …

Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Nonreciprocal responses from non-centrosymmetric quantum materials

Y Tokura, N Nagaosa - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Directional transport and propagation of quantum particle and current, such as electron,
photon, spin, and phonon, are known to occur in the materials system with broken inversion …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

Shift current bulk photovoltaic effect in polar materials—hybrid and oxide perovskites and beyond

LZ Tan, F Zheng, SM Young, F Wang, S Liu… - Npj Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) refers to the generation of a steady photocurrent and
above-bandgap photovoltage in a single-phase homogeneous material lacking inversion …

High frequency electric field induced nonlinear effects in graphene

MM Glazov, SD Ganichev - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
The nonlinear optical and optoelectronic properties of graphene with the emphasis on the
processes of harmonic generation, frequency mixing, photon drag and photogalvanic effects …

Bulk photovoltaic effect in 2D materials for solar‐power harvesting

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, Z Haider, MW Iqbal… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is highly desirable for exploring and discovering new materials and outcome‐based
approaches to exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction photovoltaic cells …

Exploring dynamics in the far-infrared with terahertz spectroscopy

CA Schmuttenmaer - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Chemical and physical systems undergoing change display spectral signatures from the
radio frequency to the X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This has led to the …

Ultrafast photocurrents at the surface of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3

L Braun, G Mussler, A Hruban, M Konczykowski… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Three-dimensional topological insulators are fascinating materials with insulating bulk yet
metallic surfaces that host highly mobile charge carriers with locked spin and momentum …

Ultrafast terahertz emission from emerging symmetry-broken materials

J Pettine, P Padmanabhan, N Sirica… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical spectroscopies are powerful tools for investigating both static material
properties and light-induced dynamics. Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy has …