Collective behavior of quorum-sensing run-and-tumble particles in confinement

Autor:	Rein, Markus, Heinß, Nike, Schmid, Friederike, Speck, Thomas
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Physics - Biological Physics Quantitative Biology - Cell Behavior
Zdroj:	Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058102 (2016)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.058102
Popis:	We study a generic model for quorum-sensing bacteria in circular confinement. Every bacterium produces signaling molecules, the local concentration of which triggers a response when a certain threshold is reached. If this response lowers the motility then an aggregation of bacteria occurs, which differs fundamentally from standard motility-induced phase separation due to the long-ranged nature of the concentration of signal molecules. We analyze this phenomenon analytically and by numerical simulations employing two different protocols leading to stationary cluster and ring morphologies, respectively. Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01512 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv