Title:	Phase segregation of passive advective particles in an active medium
Authors:	Das, Amit Polley, Anirban Rao, Madan
Issue Date:	12-Feb-2016
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Citation:	Physical Review Letters, 2016, Vol. 116, p 068306
Abstract:	Localized contractile configurations or asters spontaneously appear and disappear as emergent structures in the collective stochastic dynamics of active polar actomyosin filaments. Passive particles which (un)bind to the active filaments get advected into the asters, forming transient clusters. We study the phase segregation of such passive advective scalars in a medium of dynamic asters, as a function of the aster density and the ratio of the rates of aster remodeling to particle diffusion. The dynamics of coarsening shows a violation of Porod behavior; the growing domains have diffuse interfaces and low interfacial tension. The phase-segregated steady state shows strong macroscopic fluctuations characterized by multiscaling and intermittency, signifying rapid reorganization of macroscopic structures. We expect these unique nonequilibrium features to manifest in the actin-dependent molecular clustering at the cell surface.
Description:	Open Access
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6429
ISSN:	0031-9007 1079-7114(Online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.068306 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PhRvL.116f8306D
Copyright:	2015 American Physical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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