Kinetic roughening in active interfaces
Statistical Mechanics
2020-04-22 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
The essential features of many interfaces driven out of equilibrium are described by the same equation---the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation. How do living interfaces, such as the cell membrane, fit into this picture? In an endeavour to answer such a question, we proposed in [F. Cagnetta, M. R. Evans, D. Marenduzzo, PRL 120, 258001 (2018)] an idealised model for the membrane of a moving cell. Here we discuss how the addition of simple ingredients inspired by the dynamics of the membrane of moving cells affects common kinetic roughening theories such as the KPZ and Edwards-Wilkinson equations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.07281,
title = {Kinetic roughening in active interfaces},
author = {Francesco Cagnetta and Martin R. Evans and Davide Marenduzzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.07281},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, FisMat 2019