Parity breaking gives rise to rich superconducting properties through the admixture of even- and odd-parity Cooper pairs. New light has been shed on parity-breaking superconductors by recent observations of nonreciprocal responses such as nonlinear optical responses and the superconducting diode effect. In this Letter, we demonstrate that nonreciprocal responses are characterized by a unidirectional correction to the superfluid density, which we call nonreciprocal superfluid density. This correction leads to the nonreciprocal Meissner effect, namely, the asymmetric screening of magnetic fields due to the nonreciprocal magnetic penetration depth. Performing a microscopic analysis of an exotic superconductor ${\mathrm{UTe}}_2$ and examining the temperature dependence and renormalization effect, we show that the nonreciprocal Meissner effect is useful to probe parity-mixing properties and gap structures in superconductors.

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• Josephson effect
• Meissner effect
• Second order nonlinear optical processes
• Superconducting phase transition
• Superfluid density
• Heavy-fermion systems
• Noncentrosymmetric materials
• Unconventional superconductors
• P-symmetry
• PT-symmetry
• T-symmetry