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Victor Augusto Sant'Anna Valderramos Bittencourt
Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Quantum Physics and Photonics

Building : Marcos Moshinsky, Cub 227
Phone: 55 56 22 50 00 ext 2328

Research Lines

  • Epsilon-near-zero quantum plasmon-magnonics theory and applications
  • Dynamical feedback in magnomechanical systems under Suhl instabilities
  • Quantum jumps in circuit QED and in quantum acoustics

Knowledge Fields

  • Optics and Quantum Physics
  • Nanosciences and Condensed Matter

Knowledge Areas

  • Optics and Photonics
  • Optical

Selected Articles

  • V. A. S. V. Bittencourt , Hossein Hosseinabadi, Jairo Sinova, Libor Šmejkal, and Jamir Marino, Quantum Impurity Sensing of Altermagnetic Order, Physical Review Letters, April 2026; 136(146701), DOI: 10.1103/2ppn-kvjv, Link
  • Clinton A. Potts, Wilfred J. M. Franse, and Victor Augusto S. V. Bittencourt , and Anja Metelmann, and Gary A. Steele, Generation of large amplitude phonon states in quantum acoustics, Nature Communications, June 2025; 16(6096),
  • V. A. S. V. Bittencourt , C. A. Potts , Y. Huang, J. P. Davis, and S. Viola Kusminskiy, Magnomechanical backaction corrections due to coupling to higher-order Walker modes and Kerr nonlinearities, Physical Review B, April 2023; 107(144411), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.144411, Link
  • V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, I. Liberal, and S. Viola Kusminskiy, Optomagnonics in Dispersive Media: Magnon-Photon Coupling Enhancement at the Epsilon-near-Zero Frequency, Physical Review Letters, May 2022; 128(183603), Link
  • C. A. Potts, E. Varga, V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, S. Viola Kusminskiy, and J. P. Davis, Dynamical Backaction Magnomechanics, Physical Review X, September 2021; 11(031053), Link

Latest Articles

  • V. A. S. V. Bittencourt , Hossein Hosseinabadi, Jairo Sinova, Libor Šmejkal, and Jamir Marino, Quantum Impurity Sensing of Altermagnetic Order, Physical Review Letters, April 2026; 136(146701), DOI: 10.1103/2ppn-kvjv, Link
  • Clinton A. Potts, Wilfred J. M. Franse, and Victor Augusto S. V. Bittencourt , and Anja Metelmann, and Gary A. Steele, Generation of large amplitude phonon states in quantum acoustics, Nature Communications, June 2025; 16(6096),
  • M. Müller, J. Weber, F. Engelhardt, V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, T. Luschmann, M. Cherkasskii , M. Opel ,S. T. B. Goennenwein, S. Viola Kusminskiy, S. Geprägs, R. Gross, M. Althammer, and H. Huebl, Chiral phonons and phononic birefringence in ferromagnetic metal–bulk acoustic resonator hybrids, Physical Review B, January 2024; 109(024430), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.024430, Link
  • Sanchar Sharma, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, and Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt, Quantum tomography of magnons using Brillouin light scattering, Physical Review B, July 2024; 110(014416), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.014416, Link
  • W. J. M. Franse, C. A. Potts, V. A. S. V. Bittencourt, A. Metelmann, and G. A. Steele, High-coherence quantum acoustics with planar superconducting qubits, Applied Physics Letters, October 2024; 125(183501), DOI: 10.1063/5.0230359, Link