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Andrea Maiani

Andrea Maiani

WINQ Postdoctoral fellow at Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics

My area of research is at the boundary of condensed matter physics and quantum information. I specialize in quantum nanoelectronic and superconducting heterostructures, where superconducting materials are combined with semiconductors and magnets to generate and control new behaviors not found in nature.

Research

Recent Posts

Experiences

1

Stockholm

Postdoctoral fellow

Jan 2024 - Present


New York City

Postdoctoral associate

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

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3

Copenhagen

Postdoctoral associate

Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

Education

Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
M.Sc. in Engineering Physics
B.Sc. in Engineering Physics

Projects

mepgl
Developer March 2018 - Present

Implementation of gauged string method for the calculation of minimum energy path of vortex nucleation in superconductors within Ginzburg-Landau theory.

pyUsadel
Developer March 2021 - Present

Usadel equation solver for mesoscopic superconductor-ferromagnet heterostructures.

Fantastic PhD Thesis Template
Developer September 2022 - September 2023

Free modern PhD thesis template.

pynakes
Developer June 2026 - Present

Headless bibliography-maintenance toolkit for BibTeX, BibLaTeX, and JabRef-compatible .bib libraries, designed for researchers, scripts, and LLM-assisted workflows that need small, explicit, reviewable changes without corrupting human-curated metadata.

Quantum Minesweeper
Developer August 2025 - Present

A quantum-mechanical twist on the classic Minesweeper game.

Publications

All-electrical dephasing-protected spin qubits in altermagnets
arXiv 24 June 2026
José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel Andrea Maiani Alberto Cortijo Ramón Aguado Rubén Seoane Souto
Conductivity anisotropy and linear dichroism in spin-textured altermagnets
arXiv 11 March 2026
Andrea Maiani
Directional conductance of Andreev crystals in hybrid Josephson junction arrays
Anders Enevold Dahl Andrea Maiani Max Geier Javad Shabani Karsten Flensberg
Impurity states in altermagnetic superconductors
Andrea Maiani Rubén Seoane Souto
Machine learning approach for rapid sample screening in near-surface InAs quantum wells
Patrick J. Strohbeen Abtin Abbaspour Amara Keita Tarek Nabih Aliona Lejuste Krishna Dindial Andrea Maiani Alisa Danilenko Ido Levy Jacob Issokson Tyler Cowan William M. Strickland Mehdi Hatefipour Ashley Argueta Lukas Baker Melissa Mikalsen Javad Shabani
Gatemonium: A Voltage-Tunable Fluxonium
PRX Quantum 6, 010326 10 February, 2025
William M Strickland Bassel Heiba Elfeky Lukas Baker Andrea Maiani Jaewoo Lee Ido Levy Jacob Issokson Andrei Vrajitoarea Javad Shabani
Percolative supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator bilayers
A. Maiani A. C. C. Drachmann L. Galletti C. Schrade Y. Liu R. Seoane Souto S. Vaitiekėnas
Nonsinusoidal current-phase relations in semiconductor-superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator devices
Andrea Maiani Karsten Flensberg Martin Leijnse Constantin Schrade Saulius Vaitiekėnas Rubén Seoane Souto
Modeling of Hybrid Nanoelectronic Devices for Quantum Information Processing
Andrea Maiani

PhD thesis

Supercurrent reversal in ferromagnetic hybrid nanowire Josephson junctions
D. Razmadze R. Seoane Souto L. Galletti A. Maiani Y. Liu P. Krogstrup C. Schrade A. Gyenis C. M. Marcus S. Vaitiekėnas
Orbital-free approach for large-scale electrostatic simulations of quantum nanoelectronics devices
Waldemar Svejstrup Andrea Maiani Kevin Van Hoogdalem Karsten Flensberg
Conductance matrix symmetries of multiterminal semiconductor-superconductor devices
Andrea Maiani Max Geier Karsten Flensberg
Vortex nucleation barriers and stable fractional vortices near boundaries in multicomponent superconductors
Andrea Maiani Andrea Benfenati Egor Babaev
Semiconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor planar heterostructures for 1D topological superconductivity
Samuel D. Escribano Andrea Maiani Martin Leijnse Karsten Flensberg Yuval Oreg Alfredo Levy Yeyati Elsa Prada Rubén Seoane Souto
Entangling Transmons with Low-Frequency Protected Superconducting Qubits
Andrea Maiani Morten Kjaergaard Constantin Schrade
Topological superconductivity in semiconductor-superconductor-magnetic-insulator heterostructures
A. Maiani R. Seoane Souto M. Leijnse K. Flensberg
Vortex nucleation barrier in superconductors beyond the Bean-Livingston approximation: A numerical approach for the sphaleron problem in a gauge theory
Andrea Benfenati Andrea Maiani Filipp N. Rybakov Egor Babaev

Teaching

T.A. Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Copenhagen University 2020
T.A. Condensed Matter Physics
Copenhagen University 2021
T.A. Quantum Nanoelectronics
Copenhagen University 2021