Luiza Angheluta
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Luiza Angheluta
@luizaangheluta.bsky.social
Physics Professor @uio.no | Theoretical Statistical Physics | Collective Phenomena & Topological Defects | Fluid/Solid Mechanics | Guinea Pig Whisperer 🐹 | Piano Student 🎹
When crystals lose periodicity, dislocations gain complexity; Our study reveals an interesting hierarchy of defects in quasicrystals. With Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social and @Marcello De Donno

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Modeling dislocations in quasicrystals through amplitude equations
Quasicrystals (QCs) are a class of aperiodic ordered structures that emerge in various systems, from metallic alloys to soft matter and driven non-equ…
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September 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Luiza Angheluta
Krishna, S., Gopinath, A., & Bhattacharjee, S. M. (2022). Ordering and topological defects in social wasps' nests. Scientific reports, 12(1), 12901. #EpithelialMechanics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Reposted by Luiza Angheluta
H. P Jain, H. Richard D J, L. Angheluta, Emergent cell migration from cell shape deformations and T1 transitions. arXiv [physics.bio-ph] (2024). https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19686
December 30, 2024 at 10:39 AM
New paper on a field theory for coupling nematic ordering of the actin filaments with tissue elasticity.

arxiv.org/abs/2504.10689
Biomechanics of orientationally ordered epithelial tissue
Organogenesis involves large deformations and complex shape changes that require elaborate mechanical regulation. Models of tissue biomechanics have been introduced to account for the coupling between...
arxiv.org
April 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reposted by Luiza Angheluta
We published (open access) in Physical Review Research
@apsphysics.bsky.social a Mesoscale field theory unifying the description of growth, elasticity, and defects in hashtag quasicrystals.

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January 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New textbook 📚 on Mathematical Methods in Physics
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Analytical Methods in Physics
This book is based on lectures for a specific mathematical methods in physics course taught in the Department of Physics at the University of Oslo
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April 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reposted by Luiza Angheluta
Our new review on topological defects 🌀 in polar active matter is out on arXiv! Co-authored by Luiza Angheluta, Anna Lång, @emmalaang.bsky.social, and @stigoveboe.bsky.social. #ActiveMatter #TopologicalDefects #CollectiveBehavior
arxiv.org/abs/2504.03284
April 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM