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Main Authors: Mangold, Maximilian, Bauriedl, Lorenz, Berger, Johanna, Yu-Cheng, Chang, Meier, Thomas N. G., Kronseder, Matthias, Hakonen, Pertti, Back, Christian H., Strunk, Christoph, Suri, Dhavala
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00813
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author Mangold, Maximilian
Bauriedl, Lorenz
Berger, Johanna
Yu-Cheng, Chang
Meier, Thomas N. G.
Kronseder, Matthias
Hakonen, Pertti
Back, Christian H.
Strunk, Christoph
Suri, Dhavala
author_facet Mangold, Maximilian
Bauriedl, Lorenz
Berger, Johanna
Yu-Cheng, Chang
Meier, Thomas N. G.
Kronseder, Matthias
Hakonen, Pertti
Back, Christian H.
Strunk, Christoph
Suri, Dhavala
contents We explore the role of interfacial Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for the Josephson diode effect in all-metal diffusive Josephson junctions. Devices with Fe/Pt and Cu/Pt weak links between Nb leads reveal a Josephson diode effect in an in-plane magnetic field with magneto-chiral anisotropy according to the point symmetry of Rashba SOC. The Rashba SOC originates from inversion symmetry breaking at the metal-metal interfaces. A control sample with a plain Cu-layer as weak link, in contrast, exhibits an axis-symmetric diode effect. The Fraunhofer patterns display an apparent inverted hysteresis which can be traced back to stray fields resulting from the conventional hysteretic vortex pinning in the Nb contacts.
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spellingShingle Magneto-Chiral Anisotropy in Josephson Diode Effect of All-Metallic Lateral Junctions with Interfacial Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling
Mangold, Maximilian
Bauriedl, Lorenz
Berger, Johanna
Yu-Cheng, Chang
Meier, Thomas N. G.
Kronseder, Matthias
Hakonen, Pertti
Back, Christian H.
Strunk, Christoph
Suri, Dhavala
Superconductivity
We explore the role of interfacial Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for the Josephson diode effect in all-metal diffusive Josephson junctions. Devices with Fe/Pt and Cu/Pt weak links between Nb leads reveal a Josephson diode effect in an in-plane magnetic field with magneto-chiral anisotropy according to the point symmetry of Rashba SOC. The Rashba SOC originates from inversion symmetry breaking at the metal-metal interfaces. A control sample with a plain Cu-layer as weak link, in contrast, exhibits an axis-symmetric diode effect. The Fraunhofer patterns display an apparent inverted hysteresis which can be traced back to stray fields resulting from the conventional hysteretic vortex pinning in the Nb contacts.
title Magneto-Chiral Anisotropy in Josephson Diode Effect of All-Metallic Lateral Junctions with Interfacial Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling
topic Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00813