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  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Quantum Technologies
  • Materials Science

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  • Macroscopic coherence in superconductors enables dissipationless supercurrents crucial for quantum technologies.
  • Achieving unequal supercurrents (nonreciprocity) is key for advanced functionalities.
  • The superconducting diode effect describes this critical supercurrent nonreciprocity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate and engineer the superconducting diode effect in conventional superconducting thin films.
  • To investigate methods for achieving nonvolatile superconducting diode effects.
  • To understand the underlying mechanisms of critical supercurrent nonreciprocity.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of conventional superconducting (SC) thin films (niobium, vanadium).
  • Application of small external magnetic fields (as low as 1 Oe).
  • Integration of SC films with ferromagnetic semiconductor EuS.
  • Control experiments and theoretical modeling.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated strong superconducting diode effect in Nb and V thin films with minimal magnetic fields.
  • Achieved nonvolatile superconducting diode effect with 65% efficiency by interfacing with EuS.
  • Identified asymmetrical vortex edge/surface barriers and Meissner screening currents as key mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • The superconducting diode effect can be readily engineered in simple superconducting systems.
  • Meissner screening effects play a ubiquitous role in inducing the SC diode effect.
  • Careful consideration of this effect is necessary when searching for exotic superconducting states.