A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

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 …

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 …

Oxide materials possess a vast range of functional properties, ranging from
superconductivity to multiferroicity, that stem from the interplay between the lattice, charge …

In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by
nonsuperimposable mirror images for a material such as DNA. In physics, however, chirality …

Exploiting spin transport increases the functionality of electronic devices and enables such
devices to overcome physical limitations related to speed and power. Utilizing the Rashba …

The rise of two-dimensional (2D) crystalline superconductors has opened a new frontier of
investigating unconventional quantum phenomena in low dimensions. However, despite the …

The recent development of artificially fabricated van der Waals nanostructures makes it
possible to design and control the symmetry of solids and to find novel physical properties …

Oxide interfaces exhibit a broad range of physical effects stemming from broken inversion
symmetry. In particular, they can display non‐reciprocal phenomena when time reversal …

Nonmagnetic Rashba systems with broken inversion symmetry are expected to exhibit
nonreciprocal charge transport, a new paradigm of unidirectional magnetoresistance in the …