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 …

Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

Supercurrent diode effect and finite-momentum superconductors

NFQ Yuan, L Fu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a
superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work, we show that, in certain classes of two …

A phenomenological theory of superconductor diodes

JJ He, Y Tanaka, N Nagaosa - New Journal of Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonreciprocal responses in noncentrosymmetric systems contain a broad range of
phenomena. Especially, non-dissipative and coherent nonreciprocal transport in solids is an …

Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries

CK Chiu, JCY Teo, AP Schnyder, S Ryu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Topological materials have become the focus of intense research in recent years, since they
exhibit fundamentally new physical phenomena with potential applications for novel devices …

RETRACTED: Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structure

QL He, L Pan, AL Stern, EC Burks, X Che, G Yin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Majorana fermion is a hypothetical particle that is its own antiparticle. We report transport
measurements that suggest the existence of one-dimensional chiral Majorana fermion …

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 …

Topological superconductors: a review

M Sato, Y Ando - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review elaborates pedagogically on the fundamental concept, basic theory, expected
properties, and materials realizations of topological superconductors. The relation between …

Topological insulator materials

Y Ando - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by
peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave …

New directions in the pursuit of Majorana fermions in solid state systems

J Alicea - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …