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Supercurrent diode effect and finite momentum superconductivity
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主讲人: 袁凡奇 (北京计算科学研究中心)
地点: 物理大楼中楼212大教室
时间: 2021年9月16日(星期四)15:00-16:30
主持 联系人: 路建明 jmlu@pku.edu.cn
主讲人简介: Noah F. Q. Yuan got his Ph. D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2017, and then went to MIT as a postdoc in Liang Fu’s group. He is mainly interested in superconductivity and two-dimensional materials, and has been working on topological superconductivity, moiré superlattices, supercurrent diode effect and other related topics.

When both inversion and time-reversal symmetries are broken, the critical current of a superconductor can be nonreciprocal. In this work we show that in certain classes of two-dimensional superconductors with antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling, Cooper pairs acquire a finite momentum upon the application of an in-plane magnetic field, and as a result, critical currents in the direction parallel and antiparallel to the Cooper pair momentum become unequal. This supercurrent diode effect is also manifested in the polarity-dependence of in-plane critical fields induced by a supercurrent. These nonreciprocal effects may be found in polar SrTiO3 film, few-layer MoTe2 in the Td phase, and twisted bilayer graphene in which the valley degree of freedom plays the role analogous to spin.