
Scientific interests
- Superconducting Integrated Circuits
- Quantum Information & Computation
- Artificial atoms in Waveguide QED
- Quantum and quantum-inspired Devices
See the full list of publications and pre-prints in my Google Schoolar.
News!!!

[09Jan2026]🥳 Great news! Our paper on quantum charging advantage in superconducting devices is now published in Physical Review Letters.
[29Jan2026] 🥳 Great news! A new Roadmap on Quantum Thermodynamics is now published in Quantum Science and Technology!
[07Apr2025] 🥳 Great news! Our paper on simulation of many-body phase transitions is now published in Nature Communications!
[05Jul2025] 🥳 Great news! New paper on Quantum Mpemba effect is now published in Annals of Physics!
[18Mar2025] 🥳 Great news! Our new quantum eraser device proposal is now published in Quantum Science and Technology.
[18Feb2025] 🥳 Great news! Our validity conditions for high-fidelity digitized adiabatic computation is now published in Physical Review A!
[07Apr2025] 🥳 Great news! Our proposal on how to encode quantum bits in graphene is not published in Annals of Physics!
List of selected publications
[9] Chang-Kang Hu, et int, Alan C. Santos, Dian Tan and Dapeng Yu, Quantum Charging Advantage in Superconducting Solid-State Batteries, Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 060401 (2026).
[8] Chang-Kang Hu, et int, Alan C. Santos and Dapeng Yu, Digital simulation of zero-temperature spontaneous symmetry breaking in a superconducting lattice processor, Nature Communications 16, 3289 (2025).
[7] Pedro Rosario, Alan C. Santos, N. Piovella, R. Kaiser, A. Cidrim, R. Bachelard, Detecting entanglement from macroscopic measurements of the electric field and its fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050203 (2024).
[6] Alan C. Santos and R. Bachelard, Generation of maximally-entangled long-lived states with giant atoms in a waveguide, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 053601 (2023).
[5] Kasper Poulsen, Alan C. Santos, and Nikolaj T. Zinner, Quantum Wheatstone bridge, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240401 (2022).
[4] Chang-Kang Hu, et int, Alan C. Santos and Dapeng Yu, Optimal charging of a superconducting quantum battery, Quantum Sci. Technol. 7, 045018 (2022).
[3] Alan C. Santos, Quantum advantage of two-level batteries in the self-discharging process, Phys. Rev. E 103, 042118 (2021).
[2] Chang-Kang Hu, Alan C. Santos, Jin-Ming Cui, Yun-Feng Huang, Diogo O. Soares-Pinto, Marcelo S. Sarandy, Chuan-Feng Li and Guang-Can Guo, Quantum thermodynamics in adiabatic open systems and its trapped-ion experimental realization, npj Quantum Information 6, 73 (2020).
[1] Alan C. Santos, Barış Çakmak, Steve Campbell, and Nikolaj T. Zinner, Stable adiabatic quantum batteries, Phys. Rev. E 100, 032107 (2019).