• 文献标题:   Nonreciprocal Supercurrents in a Field-Free Graphene Josephson Triode
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHILES J, ARNAULT EG, CHEN CC, LARSON TFQ, ZHAO LF, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, AMET F, FINKELSTEIN G
  • 作者关键词:   superconductivity, josephson junction, superconductingdiode effect, quantum device
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01276
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Superconducting diodes are proposed nonreciprocal circuitelementsthat should exhibit nondissipative transport in one direction whilebeing resistive in the opposite direction. Multiple examples of suchdevices have emerged in the past couple of years; however, their efficiencyis typically limited, and most of them require a magnetic field tofunction. Here we present a device that achieves efficiencies approaching100% while operating at zero field. Our samples consist of a networkof three graphene Josephson junctions linked by a common superconductingisland, to which we refer as a Josephson triode. The three-terminalnature of the device inherently breaks the inversion symmetry, andthe control current applied to one of the contacts breaks the time-reversalsymmetry. The triode's utility is demonstrated by rectifyinga small (nA scale amplitude) applied square wave. We speculate thatdevices of this type could be realistically employed in the modernquantum circuits.