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. 2021 May 11;12:2703. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23077-0

Fig. 2. Ginzburg–Landau simulations of the superconducting diode effect.

Fig. 2

a Simulated AC current dependence of the rectification DC voltage at various magnetic fields. b Calculated time-dependent voltage (top panel) and order parameter (bottom panel) over a period of a sine wave AC current. Unit t0 is the period of the sine wave. c, d Color maps of the superconducting Cooper-pair density (screenshots of Supplementary Movie 1) at 0.45 and 0.95 of the sine-wave period, respectively. Black dots indicate nanoholes. The red spots in d show flux-carrying flux-quanta. The gray arrows indicate the direction of the driven flux-quanta.