The superconducting diode effect (SDE) refers to the nonreciprocity of superconducting critical currents. Generally, the SDE has a positive and a negative critical currents jc+- corresponding to two opposite directions with unequal amplitudes. It is demonstrated that an extreme nonreciprocity where two critical currents can become both positive (or negative) has been observed in twisted graphene systems. In this work, we theoretically propose a possible mechanism to realize an extreme nonreciprocal SDE. Based on a simple microscopic model, we demonstrate that depairing currents required to dissolve Cooper pairs can be remodulated under the interplay between valley polarizations and applied currents. Near the disappearance of the superconductivity, the remodulation is shown to induce extreme nonreciprocity and also the current-induced re-entrant superconductivity where the system has two different critical current intervals. Our study may provide new horizons for understanding the coexistence of superconductivity and spontaneous valley polarizations, and pave a way for designing SDE with 100% efficiency
Superconducting diode effect in magnetic superconductors realized by nonreciprocal domain-wall dynamics
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(韩国科学技术院);University of Seoul(首尔大学);Korea Institute for Advanced Study(韩国高等研究院);University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Texas A&M University(德克萨斯农工大学);University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校)
CNR-SPIN(意大利国家研究委员会自旋物理研究所);Okayama University(冈山大学);Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Università di Salerno(萨莱诺大学E.R.卡亚涅洛物理学系);NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore(纳米科学研究所和比萨高等师范学院)
Algebraic Criterion and Graph-Theoretic Construction of Intrinsic Superconducting Diode Effects
Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Energy Quantum Materials and Devices, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院强磁场科学中心安徽省低能量子材料与器件重点实验室);Science Island Branch of Graduate School, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学研究生院科学岛分院)
Gate-Switchable Josephson Diode Effect in Graphene via Magnetochiral Anisotropy
School of Optoelectronic Information Engineering, Shangrao Normal University(上饶师范学院光电信息工程学院);School of Mathematics and Physics, Shangrao Normal University(上饶师范学院数学与物理学院)
Field-free Josephson diode and tunable $ϕ_0$-junction in chiral kagome antiferromagnets
Hefei National Laboratory(合肥国家实验室);Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University(浙江大学关联物质中心与物理学院);School of Emerging Technology, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学新兴技术学院)
A scaling relation of vortex-induced rectification effects in a superconducting thin-film heterostructure
Osaka University(大阪大学);Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University(大阪大学开放跨学科研究倡议研究所);Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University(东北大学材料科学研究所)
Diode Effect May Assist Finding Proper Superconductivity Mechanism in Copper Oxides
Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences(亚美尼亚国家科学院物理研究所);Laboratory of Advanced Quantum Materials and Devices, Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University(查普曼大学量子研究所先进量子材料与器件实验室)
A Kapitza Pendulum Route to Supercurrent Tunnel Diodes
Istituto di Struttura della Materia of the National Research Council(国家研究委员会材料结构研究所);Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, IFW Dresden(德累斯顿IFW理论固体质物理研究所);CNR-SPIN;Istituto Lombardo “Accademia di Scienze e Lettere”(伦巴第科学院与文学院);NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore(CNR纳米科学研究所NEST与比萨高等师范学院);Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat(维尔茨堡-德累斯顿卓越集群ct.qmat);Universitá di Salerno(萨莱诺大学)
Thickness-driven crossover from conventional to chiral nonreciprocal superconductivity in kagome metal CsV3Sb5
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids(马克斯·普朗克固体化学物理研究所);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials(电子与光学材料研究中心);Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics(材料纳米架构研究中心);State Key Laboratory of Quantum Information Technologies and Materials(量子信息技术与材料国家重点实验室);Hunan University(湖南大学)
Strain-Induced Helical Superconductivity and the Zero-Field Diode Effect
Institute for Theory of Condensed Matter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院凝聚态理论研究所);Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院量子材料与技术研究所)
Nonreciprocal Equilibrium Josephson Effect of Arbitrary Periodicity from Poor Man's Majorana Zero Modes
Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences(北京量子信息科学研究院);CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院理论物理研究所);Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学尼尔斯·玻尔研究所)
Geometric Superconducting Diode Effect in an NbN Nanoring
Nanjing University(南京大学);Purple Mountain Laboratories(紫金山实验室);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);State Key Laboratory of Spintronics Devices and Technologies, Nanjing University(南京大学自旋电子学器件与技术国家重点实验室);Nanjing University of Science and Technology(南京理工大学)