| Symmetry-protected topological Hopf insulator and its generalizations C Liu, F Vafa, C Xu Physical Review B 95 (16), 161116, 2017 | 63 | 2017 |
| Active nematic defects and epithelial morphogenesis F Vafa, L Mahadevan Physical Review Letters 129 (9), 098102, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 27 | 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 | 19 | 2022 |
| Defect absorption and emission for -atic liquid crystals on cones 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 |
| 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 | 5 | 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 |
| Phase diagram, confining strings, and a new universality class in nematopolar matter F Vafa, A Doostmohammadi arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04769, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Geometry and dynamics of active topological defects F Vafa University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Liquid crystal ground states on cones with antitwist boundary conditions C Long, DR Nelson Physical Review E 111 (2), 025418, 2025 | | 2025 |
| 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 APS March Meeting Abstracts 2024, Z35. 012, 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 | | 2023 |
| Fluctuations can induce local nematic order and extensile stress in motile cell monolayers F Vafa, M Bowick, B Shraiman, MC Marchetti APS March Meeting Abstracts 2021, C13. 009, 2021 | | 2021 |
