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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

2

3

Copenhagen

Postdoctoral associate

Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

Education

Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
M.Sc. in Engineering Physics
Final grade: 110 out of 110
B.Sc. in Engineering Physics
Final grade: 110 out of 110

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.

Publications

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