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Minimal model of motile bacteria with birth-death: deterministic solution and entropy production

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  • UserIrene Li, DAMTP
  • ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00
  • HouseMR11, CMS.

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As living organisms, bacteria exhibit motility induced phase separation as well as population dynamics. A minimal stochastic model is constructed to investigate the phenomenologies and the entropy production rate of such systems. Two distinct solutions are found: phase separation arrested at a fixed length scale and limit cycles where the bacteria alternate between the free-swimming planktonic phase and the “colony” phase. Building on the deterministic solutions, the entropy production rate can be calculated to low orders in noise, as a way of quantifying the amount of time reversal symmetry breaking in the system.

This talk is part of the DAMTP Statistical Physics and Soft Matter Seminar series.

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