Title

Organization and Instabilities of Entangled Active Polar Filaments

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Tanniemola B. Liverpool, Imperial College and University of California
M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University and University of CaliforniaFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

2-1-2008

Keywords

condensed matter, soft condensed matter

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We study the dynamics of an entangled, isotropic solution of polar filaments coupled by molecular motors which generate relative motion of the filaments in two and three dimensions. We investigate the stability of the homogeneous state for constant motor concentration taking into account excluded volume and entanglement. At low filament density the system develops a density instability, while at high filament density entanglement effects drive the instability of orientational fluctuations.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information go to http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207320

Recommended Citation

arXiv:cond-mat/0207320v1

Source

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