Nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation: review of historical developments and recent advances

K Edalati, A Bachmaier, VA Beloshenko… - Materials Research …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is effective in producing bulk ultrafine-grained and
nanostructured materials with large densities of lattice defects. This field, also known as …

Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

Supercurrent rectification and magnetochiral effects in symmetric Josephson junctions

C Baumgartner, L Fuchs, A Costa, S Reinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transport is non-reciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current
depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion …

From Andreev to Majorana bound states in hybrid superconductor–semiconductor nanowires

E Prada, P San-Jose, MWA de Moor, A Geresdi… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Inhomogeneous superconductors can host electronic excitations, known as Andreev bound
states (ABSs), below the superconducting energy gap. With the advent of topological …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on conventional high-temperature superconductors at high pressure: Methods and materials

JA Flores-Livas, L Boeri, A Sanna, G Profeta, R Arita… - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Two hydrogen-rich materials, H 3 S and LaH 10, synthesized at megabar pressures, have
revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics providing the first glimpse to the …

General theory of Josephson diodes

Y Zhang, Y Gu, P Li, J Hu, K Jiang - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Motivated by recent progress in the superconductivity nonreciprocal phenomena, we study
the general theory of Josephson diodes. The central ingredient for Josephson diodes is the …

EPW: Electron–phonon coupling, transport and superconducting properties using maximally localized Wannier functions

S Poncé, ER Margine, C Verdi, F Giustino - Computer Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The EPW (Electron-Phonon coupling using Wannier functions) software is a
Fortran90 code that uses density-functional perturbation theory and maximally localized …

dc Josephson effect in altermagnets

JA Ouassou, A Brataas, J Linder - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The ability of magnetic materials to modify superconductors is an active research area for
possible applications in thermoelectricity, quantum sensing, and spintronics. We consider …

Tailored Ising superconductivity in intercalated bulk NbSe2

H Zhang, A Rousuli, K Zhang, L Luo, C Guo, X Cong… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Reducing the dimensionality of layered materials can result in properties distinct from their
bulk crystals,–. However, the emergent properties in atomically thin samples, in particular in …