Fluctuations and Rheology in Active Bacterial Suspensions

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2007-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0709.1465v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.148302

We probe non-equilibrium properties of an active bacterial bath through measurements of correlations of passive tracer particles and the response function of a driven, optically trapped tracer. These measurements demonstrate violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and enable us to extract the power spectrum of the active stress fluctuations. In some cases, we observe $1/\sqrt{\omega}$ scaling in the noise spectrum which we show can be derived from a theoretical model incorporating coupled stress, orientation, and concentration fluctuations of the bacteria.

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