Symmetry-protected topological Hopf insulator and its generalizations C Liu, F Vafa, C Xu
Physical Review B 95 (16), 161116, 2017
64 2017 Chern-Simons theory and Wilson loops in the Brillouin zone B Lian, C Vafa, F Vafa, SC Zhang
Physical Review B 95 (9), 094512, 2017
40 2017 Active nematic defects and epithelial morphogenesis F Vafa, L Mahadevan
Physical Review Letters 129 (9), 098102, 2022
39 2022 Fluctuations can induce local nematic order and extensile stress in monolayers of motile cells F Vafa, MJ Bowick, BI Shraiman, MC Marchetti
Soft Matter 17 (11), 3068-3073, 2021
26 2021 Multi-defect dynamics in active nematics F Vafa, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti, BI Shraiman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02947, 2020
20 2020 Defect dynamics in active polar fluids vs. active nematics F Vafa
Soft Matter 18 (42), 8087-8097, 2022
18 2022 Defect absorption and emission for F Vafa, GH Zhang, DR Nelson
Physical Review E 106 (2), 024704, 2022
12 2022 Active topological defect absorption by a curvature singularity F Vafa, DR Nelson, A Doostmohammadi
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 35 (42), 425101, 2023
6 2023 Multi-defect dynamics in active nematics (2020) F Vafa, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti, BI Shraiman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.02947, 0
5 Periodic orbits, pair nucleation, and unbinding of active nematic defects on cones F Vafa, DR Nelson, A Doostmohammadi
Physical Review E 109 (6), 064606, 2024
4 2024 Statics and diffusive dynamics of surfaces driven by p-atic topological defects F Vafa, L Mahadevan
Soft Matter 19 (35), 6652-6663, 2023
3 2023 Defect ground states for liquid crystals on cones and hyperbolic cones F Vafa, GH Zhang, DR Nelson
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03742, 2024
2 2024 Geometry and dynamics of active topological defects F Vafa
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021
1 2021 Phase diagram, confining strings, and a new universality class in nematopolar matter F Vafa, A Doostmohammadi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04769, 2025
2025 Liquid Crystal Ground States on Cones with Anti-Twist Boundary Conditions C Long, DR Nelson
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03377, 2024
2024 An efficient solution to Hidden Markov Models on trees with coupled branches F Vafa, S Hormoz
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01663, 2024
2024 Density-dependent emergent dynamics of sea urchin embryos L Lin, YC Chao, Y Chen, F Vafa, N Fakhri
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2024
2024 rsc. li/soft-matter-journal F Vafa, L Mahadevan
2023 Finite-temperature statistical mechanics of liquid crystals with p-fold rotational symmetry on cones and hyperbolic cones G Zhang, P Hanakata, F Vafa, D Nelson
APS March Meeting Abstracts 2023, Z07. 012, 2023
2023 Dynamics of topological defects on cones F Vafa, S Monfared, G Zhang, D Nelson, A Doostmohammadi
APS March Meeting Abstracts 2023, Z07. 009, 2023
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