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 …

Chiral induced spin selectivity

BP Bloom, Y Paltiel, R Naaman, DH Waldeck - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Since the initial landmark study on the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect in 1999,
considerable experimental and theoretical efforts have been made to understand the …

Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

J Díez-Mérida, A Díez-Carlón, SY Yang, YM Xie… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The coexistence of gate-tunable superconducting, magnetic and topological orders in magic-
angle twisted bilayer graphene provides opportunities for the creation of hybrid Josephson …

Chiral molecules and the electron spin

R Naaman, Y Paltiel, DH Waldeck - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
The electron's spin is essential to the stability of matter, and control over the spin opens up
avenues for manipulating the properties of molecules and materials. The Pauli exclusion …

Tunable Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Two-Dimensional Cr2Te3

Y Wen, Z Liu, Y Zhang, C Xia, B Zhai, X Zhang… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The manipulation of magnetism provides a unique opportunity for the development of data
storage and spintronic applications. Until now, electrical control, pressure tuning, stacking …

Superconducting spintronics

J Linder, JWA Robinson - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on
the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a …

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 …

Proximitized materials

I Žutić, A Matos-Abiague, B Scharf, H Dery… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality
together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to …

Odd-frequency superconductivity

J Linder, AV Balatsky - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
This article reviews odd-frequency (odd-ω) pairing with a focus on superconducting systems.
Since Berezinskii introduced the concept of odd-frequency order in 1974 it has been viewed …

Finite-momentum Cooper pairing in proximitized altermagnets

SB Zhang, LH Hu, T Neupert - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Finite-momentum Cooper pairing is an unconventional form of superconductivity that is
widely believed to require finite magnetization. Altermagnetism is an emerging magnetic …