Dynamics of active membranes with internal noise

Details Dynamics of active membranes with internal noise Dynamics of active membranes with internal noise

2006-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606146v1

Europhys. Lett., 70 (3), 418-424 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

We study the time-dependent height fluctuations of an active membrane containing energy-dissipating pumps that drive the membrane out of equilibrium. Unlike previous investigations based on models that neglect either curvature couplings or random fluctuations in pump activities, our formulation explores two new models that take both of these effects into account. In the first model, the magnitude of the nonequilibrium forces generated by the pumps is allowed to fluctuate temporally. In the second model, the pumps are allowed to switch between "on" and "off" states. We compute the mean squared displacement of a membrane point for both models, and show that they exhibit distinct dynamical behaviors from previous models, and in particular, a superdiffusive regime specifically arising from the shot noise.

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