Voltage-tunable field-free Josephson diode

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Autores principales: Telkamp, Sjoerd, Zhao, Junting, Vaitiekėnas, Saulius
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Publicado: 2025
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author Telkamp, Sjoerd
Zhao, Junting
Vaitiekėnas, Saulius
author_facet Telkamp, Sjoerd
Zhao, Junting
Vaitiekėnas, Saulius
contents We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic superconducting window as a function of axial magnetic field. In the superconducting regime, the devices exhibit nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, with the diode efficiency showing a strong dependence on back-gate voltage. The effect persists in a remanent magnetization state following a controlled demagnetization procedure, establishing zero-field operation. These findings demonstrate a voltage-controlled Josephson diode in a single junction and suggest a route toward probing intrinsically broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries in hybrid materials.
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spellingShingle Voltage-tunable field-free Josephson diode
Telkamp, Sjoerd
Zhao, Junting
Vaitiekėnas, Saulius
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We report a gate-tunable Josephson diode effect in hybrid nanowire junctions consisting of a spin-orbit-coupled semiconductor core coated with epitaxial ferromagnetic insulator and superconductor shells. The wires display a hysteretic superconducting window as a function of axial magnetic field. In the superconducting regime, the devices exhibit nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, with the diode efficiency showing a strong dependence on back-gate voltage. The effect persists in a remanent magnetization state following a controlled demagnetization procedure, establishing zero-field operation. These findings demonstrate a voltage-controlled Josephson diode in a single junction and suggest a route toward probing intrinsically broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries in hybrid materials.
title Voltage-tunable field-free Josephson diode
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12056