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The supercurrent diode effect and nonreciprocal paraconductivity due to the chiral structure of nanotubes

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  • James Jun He

    (Hefei National Laboratory
    University of Science and Technology of China)

  • Yukio Tanaka

    (Nagoya University)

  • Naoto Nagaosa

    (RIKEN)

Abstract

The phenomenon that critical supercurrents along opposite directions become unequal is called the supercurrent diode effect (SDE). It has been observed in various systems and can often be understood by combining spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field, which break the spatial-inversion and time-reversal symmetries, respectively. Here, we theoretically investigate another mechanism of breaking these symmetries and predict the existence of the SDE in chiral nanotubes without spin-orbit coupling. The symmetries are broken by the chiral structure and a magnetic flux through the tube. With a generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory, we obtain the main features of the SDE in its dependence on system parameters. We further show that the same Ginzburg-Landau free energy leads to another important manifestation of the nonreciprocity in superconducting systems, i.e., the nonreciprocal paraconductivity (NPC) slightly above the transition temperature. Our study suggests a new class of realistic platforms to investigate nonreciprocal properties of superconducting materials. It also provides a theoretical link between the SDE and the NPC, which were often studied separately.

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  • James Jun He & Yukio Tanaka & Naoto Nagaosa, 2023. "The supercurrent diode effect and nonreciprocal paraconductivity due to the chiral structure of nanotubes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-6, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-39083-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39083-3
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