The diode effect induced by domain-wall superconductivity

On the basis of the phenomenological Ginzburg–Landau model we calculate the critical current of the domain-wall superconducting channel formed in flux-coupled superconductor/ferromagnet (S/F) hybrids in the presence of the nonuniform magnetic field of the domain walls. It is shown that the current-carrying ability in such S/F systems in the domain-wall superconducting state differs for the positive and negative directions of the injected current with respect to the parity-breaking vector, which is proportional to ∇×M?> and thus determined by the local magnetization vector M(r) in the ferromagnetic substrate. We demonstrate that in such S/F systems the realization of the so-called diode effect is possible for both laterally infinite and mesoscopic structures.

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