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Effective free energy for pinned membranes

Thomas Speck

  • Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

Phys. Rev. E 83, 050901(R) – Published 4 May, 2011Erratum Phys. Rev. E 83, 059909 (2011)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.050901

Abstract

We consider membranes adhered through specific receptor-ligand bonds. Thermal undulations of the membrane induce effective interactions between adhesion sites. We derive an upper bound to the free energy that is independent of interaction details. To the lowest order in a systematic expansion we obtain two-body interactions that allow us to map the free energy onto a lattice gas with a constant density. The induced interactions alone are not strong enough to lead to a condensation of individual adhesion sites. A measure of the thermal roughness is shown to depend on the inverse square root of the density of adhesion sites, which is in good agreement with previous computer simulations.

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