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 …

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 …

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 …

Unconventional superconductivity in chiral molecule–TaS2 hybrid superlattices

Z Wan, G Qiu, H Ren, Q Qian, Y Li, D Xu, J Zhou… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Chiral superconductors, a unique class of unconventional superconductors in which the
complex superconducting order parameter winds clockwise or anticlockwise in the …

Josephson diode effect in high-mobility InSb nanoflags

B Turini, S Salimian, M Carrega, A Iorio, E Strambini… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report nonreciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag
Josephson junctions. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in …

Altermagnetic superconducting diode effect

S Banerjee, MS Scheurer - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Nonreciprocal superconductivity, also known as the superconducting diode effect, has been
extensively studied in the presence of a magnetic field or some form of ferromagnetic order …

Nonreciprocal supercurrents in a field-free graphene Josephson triode

J Chiles, EG Arnault, CC Chen, TFQ Larson, L Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit
nondissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction …

Current induced hidden states in Josephson junctions

S Chen, S Park, U Vool, N Maksimovic… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators
below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on …

Sign reversal diode effect in superconducting Dayem nanobridges

D Margineda, A Crippa, E Strambini, Y Fukaya… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Supercurrent diodes are nonreciprocal electronic elements whose switching current
depends on their flow direction. Recently, a variety of composite systems combining different …

Diode effects in current-biased Josephson junctions

JF Steiner, L Melischek, M Trahms, KJ Franke… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Current-biased Josephson junctions exhibit hysteretic transitions between dissipative and
superconducting states as characterized by switching and retrapping currents. Here, we …