Vincenzo Vitelli

 

Assistant Professor

Soft Condensed Matter Theory Group

Instituut-Lorentz

Universiteit Leiden

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Papers:

Anharmonicity and quasi-localization of the excess low-frequency vibrations in jammed solids
N. Xu, V. Vitelli, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel

arXiv:0909.3701, (2009).

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

arXiv:0908.4358, (2009).

Heat transport in model jammed solids
V. Vitelli
, N. Xu, M. Wyart, A. J. Liu and S. R. Nagel
arXiv:0908.2176
, (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).

Vortices on Curved Surfaces
A. Turner, V. Vitelli
, and D.R. Nelson
arXiv:0807.0413
, to appear in Reviews of Modern Physics (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).