Vincenzo Vitelli

TL;DR: The discovery of the topological phase of matter has largely influenced solid state physics, photonics and acoustics research in recent years, offering not only deep physical insights into a new generation of materials and light-matter interactions, but also new engineering tools to tailor signal transport with electrons, light and sound, providing unique features in terms of robustness to defects and disorder as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article , the tunable wavelength of these cascade-induced patterns is set by a non-dissipative transport coefficient called odd or gyro viscosity, which is ubiquitous in chiral systems ranging from plasmas, bioactive media and quantum fluids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the variation of the "apparent" non-Gaussianity of a random field, as a function of the coarse-graining length, when they measure non-gaussianity using the statistics of extrema in the field.

TL;DR: It is shown how geometric and topological properties of Gaussian fields, in particular the statistics of extrema and umbilical points, are modified by the presence of a non-Gaussian perturbation, to give an independent way to detect and quantify non- Gaussianities.

TL;DR: In this article, a bottom-up approach based on differential geometry was proposed to capture changes in mechanics upon network growth or merger, going beyond the linear deformation regime, by modeling the mechanics of many materials as a network of balls connected by springs.