TY - JOUR
T1 - Instabilities of Isotropic Solutions of Active Polar Filaments
AU - Liverpool, Tanniemola B.
AU - Marchetti, M. Cristina
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - We study the dynamics of an 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 an estimate of entanglement. At low filament density the system develops a density instability, while at high density entanglement drives the instability of orientational fluctuations.
AB - We study the dynamics of an 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 an estimate of entanglement. At low filament density the system develops a density instability, while at high density entanglement drives the instability of orientational fluctuations.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.138102
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.138102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038310782
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 90
SP - 4
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 13
ER -