Vincenzo Vitelli

 

Assistant Professor

Soft Condensed Matter Theory Group

Instituut-Lorentz

Universiteit Leiden

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Papers:

Shocks near Jamming
L. R. Gomez, A. Turner, M. van Hecke and V. Vitelli

Physical Review Letters 108, 058001 (2012).

Marginal Matters
V. Vitelli
and M. van Hecke

Nature 480, 325 (2011).

Quantum Buckling
N. Upadhyaya and V. Vitelli

Physical Review E (Rapid) 84, 040601 (2011).

Frustrated Nematic Order in Spherical Geometries
T. Lopez Leon, V. Koning, V. Vitelli and A. Fernandez Nieves

Nature Physics 7, 391 (2011).

Pleats in Crystals on Curved Surfaces
W. Irvine, V. Vitelli and P. Chaikin

Nature 468, 947 (2010).

Attenuation of shear sound waves in jammed solids
V. Vitelli

Soft Matter 6, 3007 (2010).

Anharmonic and quasi-localized vibrations in jammed solids: modes for mechanical failure
N. Xu, V. Vitelli, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel

Europhysics Letters 90, 56001 (2010).

Vortices on Curved Surfaces
A. Turner, V. Vitelli
, and D.R. Nelson
Reviews of Modern Physics 82
, 1301 (2010).

Heat transport in model jammed solids
V. Vitelli
, N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel
Physical Review E 81
, 021301 (2010).

Extrinsic Curvature, Geometric Optics, and Lamellar Order on Curved Substrates
R. D. Kamien, D. R. Nelson, C. D. Santangelo and V. Vitelli

Physical Review E 80, 051703 (2009) .

Topological defects in weak lensing shear fields
V. Vitelli
, B. Jain and R. D. Kamien
JCAP 09(2009)034
, (2009).

Energy transport in jammed sphere packings
N. Xu, V. Vitelli
, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel
Physical Review Letters 102
, 038001 (2009).

Novel defect structures in nematic liquid crystal shells
A. Fernandez-Nieves, V. Vitelli
, A. S. Utada, D. R. Link, M. Marquez, D. R. Nelson and D. A. Weitz
Physical Review Letters 99
, 157801 (2007).

A Monte Carlo Study of Order and Defects on Weakly Curved Surfaces
A. Hexemer, V. Vitelli
, E. J. Kramer and G. H. Fredrickson
Physical Review E 76
, 051604 (2007).

A Geometric Theory of Columnar Phases on Curved Substrates
C. D. Santangelo, V. Vitelli
, R. D. Kamien and D. R. Nelson

Physical Review Letters 99, 017801 (2007)

Nematic textures in spherical shells
V. Vitelli
and D. R. Nelson
Physical Review E 74
, 021711 (2006)

Crystallography on Curved Surfaces
V. Vitelli
, J. B. Lucks and D. R. Nelson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
103, 12323 (2006)

Anomalous coupling between topological defects and curvature
V. Vitelli
and A. M. Turner
Physical Review Letters 93
, 215301 (2004)

Defect generation and deconfinement on corrugated topographies
V. Vitelli
and D. R. Nelson
Physical Review E
70, 051105 (2004)

The physics of forgetting: Landauer's erasure principle and information theory
M. B. Plenio and V. Vitelli

Contemporary Physics 42
, 25 (2001)

Universal quantum limits on single channel information, entropy and heat flow
M. P. Blencowe and V. Vitelli

Physical Review A
62, 052104 (2000)

 

Thesis:

Crystals, Liquid Crystals and Superfluid He on curved surfaces.
V. Vitelli

PhD
Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (2006).