I work in the Primitives team at Pasqal, developing hardware-oriented software and algorithms for quantum computation on neutral-atom hardware. Part of that work goes into QoolQit, the open-source Python library for writing algorithms for Rydberg-atom quantum processors.
Before that I was a postdoc at CPHT, École Polytechnique, and at the Collège de France, working on the expressivity of neural-network quantum states and contributing to NetKet and NetKet Foundation. I did my PhD at SISSA (Trieste) on many-body simulations, mostly with tensor networks, with a few side projects on benchmarking early quantum computers.
What I work on
- Algorithms and software primitives for analog neutral-atom hardware
- Variational Monte Carlo and neural-network quantum states (NetKet)
- Tensor-network methods, in particular hybrids with the stabilizer formalism
Selected publications
- A. F. Mello, A. Santini, G. Lami, J. De Nardis, M. Collura. Clifford dressed time-dependent variational principle. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 150403 (2025)
- A. F. Mello, A. Santini, M. Collura. Hybrid stabilizer matrix product operator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150604 (2024)
- A. Misery, L. Gravina, A. Santini, F. Vicentini. Looking elsewhere: improving variational Monte Carlo gradients by importance sampling. Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 7, 015035 (2026)
- A. Solfanelli, A. Santini, M. Campisi. Experimental verification of fluctuation relations with a quantum computer. PRX Quantum 2, 030353 (2021)
Full list on the publications page.