Statistical properties of a tangentially driven active filament
Soft Condensed Matter
2020-02-19 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Active polymers play a central role in many biological systems, from bacterial flagella to cellular cytoskeletons. Minimal models of semiflexible active filaments have been used to study a variety of interesting phenomena in active systems, such as defect dynamics in active nematics, clustering and laning in motility assays, and conformational properties of chromatin in eukaryotic cells. In this paper, we map a semiflexible polymer to an exactly solvable active Rouse chain, which enables us to analytically compute configurational and dynamical properties of active polymers with arbitrary rigidity.
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@article{arxiv.1908.11286,
title = {Statistical properties of a tangentially driven active filament},
author = {Matthew S. E. Peterson and Michael F. Hagan and Aparna Baskaran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11286},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures; added references and revised text, results unchanged