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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 10(91), 2003

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.108104

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Membranes with Rotating Motors

Journal article published in 2003 by Peter Lenz, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost
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Abstract

We study collections of rotatory motors confined to two-dimensional manifolds. These systems show a nontrivial collective behavior since the rotational motion leads to a repulsive hydrodynamic interaction between motors. While for high rotation speed motors might exhibit crystalline order, they form at low speed a disordered phase where diffusion is enhanced by velocity fluctuations. These effects should be experimentally observable for motors driven by external fields and for dipolar biological motors embedded into lipid membranes in a viscoelastic solvent.