Field-Resilient Supercurrent Diode in a Multiferroic Josephson Junction

ORAL

Abstract

The research on supercurrent diodes has surged rapidly due to their potential applications in electronic circuits at cryogenic temperatures. To unlock this functionality, it is essential to find supercurrent diodes that can work consistently at zero magnetic field and under ubiquitous stray fields generated in electronic circuits. However, a supercurrent diode with robust field tolerance is currently lacking. Here, we demonstrate a field-resilient supercurrent diode by incorporating a 2D multiferroic material into a Josephson junction. We first observed a pronounced supercurrent diode effect at zero magnetic field. More importantly, the supercurrent rectification persists over a wide and bipolar magnetic field range beyond industrial standards for field tolerance. By theoretically modeling a multiferroic Josephson junction, we unveil that the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and multiferroicity underlies the unusual field resilience of the observed diode effect. This work introduces multiferroic Josephson junctions as a new field-resilient superconducting device for cryogenic electronics.

*The work at Sandia is supported by a LDRD project. SNL is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525.

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Presenters

  • Hung-Yu Yang

    • University of California, Los Angeles

Authors

  • Hung-Yu Yang

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Joseph J Cuozzo

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Anand Johnson Bokka

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Gang Qiu

    • University of Minnesota

  • Christopher Eckberg

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Yanfeng Lyu

    • Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  • Shuyuan huyan

    • Ames National Laboratory

  • Ching-Wu Chu

    • TCSUH and Department of Physics, University of Houston; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    • University of Houston

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • NIMS
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • National Institute of Materials Science
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
    • Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science

  • Kang-Lung L Wang

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of California