Organization and instabilities of entangled active polar filaments

Details Organization and instabilities of entangled active polar filaments Organization and instabilities of entangled active polar filaments

2002-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207320v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 138102 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4pages, 2 eps figure, revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.138102

We study the dynamics of an entangled, 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 entanglement. At low filament density the system develops a density instability, while at high filament density entanglement effects drive the instability of orientational fluctuations.

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