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Title: Phase Asymmetry of Andreev Spectra From Cooper-Pair Momentum

Abstract: In analogy to conventional semiconductor diodes, the Josephson diode exhibits superconducting properties that are asymmetric in applied bias. The effect has been investigated in number of systems recently, and requires a combination of broken time-reversal and inversion symmetries. We demonstrate a dual of the usual Josephson diode effect, a nonreciprocal response of Andreev bound states to a superconducting phase difference across the normal region of a superconductor-normal-superconductor Josephson junction, fabricated using an epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure. Phase asymmetry of the subgap Andreev spectrum is absent in the absence of in-plane magnetic field and reaches a maximum at 0.15 T applied in the plane of the junction transverse to the current direction. We interpret the phase diode effect in this system as resulting from finite-momentum Cooper pairing due to orbital coupling to the in-plane magnetic field, without invoking Zeeman or spin-orbit coupling.
Subjects: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Journal reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 196301 (2023)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.196301
Report number: NBI QDEV CMT 2023
Cite as: arXiv:2301.01881 [cond-mat.supr-con]
  (or arXiv:2301.01881v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] for this version)

Submission history

From: Charles Marcus [view email]
[v1] Thu, 5 Jan 2023 02:40:12 GMT (27992kb,D)

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