Molecular Spiders with Memory

Details Molecular Spiders with Memory Molecular Spiders with Memory

2007-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2596v1

Physical Review E 76, 021121 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

10 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021121

Synthetic bio-molecular spiders with "legs" made of single-stranded segments of DNA can move on a surface which is also covered by single-stranded segments of DNA complementary to the leg DNA. In experimental realizations, when a leg detaches from a segment of the surface for the first time it alters that segment, and legs subsequently bound to these altered segments more weakly. Inspired by these experiments we investigate spiders moving along a one-dimensional substrate, whose legs leave newly visited sites at a slower rate than revisited sites. For a random walk (one-leg spider) the slowdown does not effect the long time behavior. For a bipedal spider, however, the slowdown generates an effective bias towards unvisited sites, and the spider behaves similarly to the excited walk. Surprisingly, the slowing down of the spider at new sites increases the diffusion coefficient and accelerates the growth of the number of visited sites.

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