Andrea Maiani

Andrea Maiani

Andrea Maiani

WINQ Postdoctoral fellow at Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics

I am a theoretical physicist working at the boundary of condensed matter physics and quantum technology. I model quantum devices, from hybrid superconducting systems and mesoscopic conductors to unconventional magnetic materials, combining analytical theory, numerical simulation, and close collaboration with experimental groups. My current work covers Josephson junctions, superconducting qubits, transport and optics in altermagnets, and altermagnet-based spin qubits.

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Research

Experiences

1

Stockholm

Postdoctoral fellow

Jan 2024 - Present


New York City

Postdoctoral associate

Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

2

Education

Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics
Supervisor:
Karsten Flensberg
Double M.Sc. in Engineering Physics and Physics of Complex Systems
Exchange:
Erasmus+ year at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2018-2019)
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.

ThermalSpin
Developer 2018

Monte Carlo simulator for classical Heisenberg models with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions.

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.

Qapture the Flag
Developer September 2026

A two-team quantum game in which both teams contest one shared qubit: gates rotate the Bloch vector toward each team’s pole, and a measurement lets the Born rule pick the winner. Developed at the Lorentz Center workshop Advancing Quantum Technology with Quantum Games (Leiden, 2026).

Publications

Emergent gauge fields and linear dichroism in spin-textured altermagnets
Andrea Maiani
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
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

Talks

Talks and seminars
  • Optical and transport anisotropies in spin-textured altermagnets
    ICMM-CSIC, Madrid (2025); QUANTUMatter 2026
  • Hybrid superconducting devices for quantum information processing
    NoQIP 2025
  • Percolative supercurrent in superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator bilayers
    Gordon Research Conference on Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Devices, Les Diablerets (2025)
  • Impurity states in altermagnetic superconductors
    ICMM-CSIC, Madrid (2024); TU Dresden (2024); APS Global Physics Summit 2025
  • Ferromagnetic hybrid heterostructures
    Uppsala University (2022); New York University (2023); Nordita (2024)
  • Controllable current-phase relations in ferromagnetic hybrid junctions
    BalCon TP 2023
  • Conductance matrix symmetries of multiterminal semiconductor-superconductor devices
    APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas
  • Topological superconductivity in semiconductor-superconductor-magnetic insulator heterostructures
    IOP online conference “Bound states in hybrid superconductor nanostructures” (2021)
Outreach
  • Quantum Computing: Concepts, Risks, Readiness
    Invited workshop on quantum technologies and post-quantum cryptography, Central Bank of Ireland (2026)
  • When a Superconductor Learned to Tunnel: A Brief History of the Birth of Circuit QED
    ScientiFika popular-science talk on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, Nordita (2025)
  • Quantum Minesweeper at ForskarFredag
    Activity for high-school students at ForskarFredag, the Swedish part of the European Researchers’ Night (2025, 2026)