Perfect Superconducting Diode Effect in Altermagnets.

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Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Box 516, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden.

Published: July 2025


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We investigate intrinsic superconducting diode effect in the unconventional superconducting state of d-wave altermagnets. We find large diode efficiencies in the wide-reaching finite-momentum pairing regimes of the phase diagram. Remarkably, even perfect diode efficiency of 100% can be obtained in the presence of an external magnetic field. We attribute the largest efficiencies to competition between multiple zero-momentum (BCS) and finite-momentum superconducting states, which is connected to a topological nodal-to-nodeless transition in altermagnets with magnetic field, making our results applicable to a wide range of altermagnets.

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