Efficiency at maximum power of interacting molecular machines
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-11 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Abstract
We investigate the efficiency of systems of molecular motors operating at maximum power. We consider two models of kinesin motors on a microtubule: for both the simplified and the detailed model, we find that the many-body exclusion effect enhances the efficiency at maximum power of the many-motor system, with respect to the single motor case. Remarkably, we find that this effect occurs in a limited region of the system parameters, compatible with the biologically relevant range.
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@article{arxiv.1208.4933,
title = {Efficiency at maximum power of interacting molecular machines},
author = {N. Golubeva and A. Imparato},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.4933},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett