445 citations · 461 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
cond-mat.dis-nn2004★ 16 cited
Vortex pinning by a columnar defect in planar superconductors with point disorder
Anatoli Polkovnikov, Yariv Kafri, David R. Nelson
We study the effect of a single columnar pin on a dimensional array of vortex lines in planar type II superconductors in the presence of point disorder. In large samples, t…
cond-mat.soft2003★ 445 cited
Virus shapes and buckling transitions in spherical shells
Jack Lidmar, Leonid Mirny, David R. Nelson
We show that the icosahedral packings of protein capsomeres proposed by Caspar and Klug for spherical viruses become unstable to faceting for sufficiently large virus size, in anal…