Active nematics on a substrate: giant number fluctuations and long-time tails

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2002-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208573v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Submitted to Europhys Lett 26 Aug 2002

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2003-00346-7

We construct the equations of motion for the coupled dynamics of order parameter and concentration for the nematic phase of driven particles on a solid surface, and show that they imply (i) giant number fluctuations, with a standard deviation proportional to the mean and (ii) long-time tails $\sim t^{-d/2}$ in the autocorrelation of the particle velocities in $d$ dimensions despite the absence of a hydrodynamic velocity field. Our predictions can be tested in experiments on aggregates of amoeboid cells as well as on layers of agitated granular matter.

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