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Hot particles attract in a cold bath

Hidenori Tanaka*, Alpha A. Lee†, and Michael P. Brenner‡

  • Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA and Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  • *tanaka@g.harvard.edu
  • †alphalee@g.harvard.edu
  • ‡brenner@seas.harvard.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 043103 – Published 27 April, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.043103

Abstract

Controlling interactions out of thermodynamic equilibrium is crucial for designing addressable and functional self-organizing structures. These active interactions also underpin collective behavior in biological systems. Here we study a general setting of active particles in a bath of passive particles and demonstrate a mechanism for long-range attraction between active particles. The mechanism operates when the translational persistence length of the active particle motion is smaller than the particle diameter. In this limit, the system reduces to particles of higher diffusivity (“hot” particles) in a bath of particles with lower diffusivity (“cold” particles). This attractive interaction arises as a hot particle pushes cold particles away to create a large hole around itself, and the holes interact via a depletion-like attraction. Strikingly, the interaction range is more than an order of magnitude larger than the particle radius, well beyond the range of the conventional depletion force. Although the mechanism occurs outside the parameter regime of typical biological swimmers, the mechanism could be realized in the laboratory.

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Publisher's Note: Hot particles attract in a cold bath [Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 043103 (2017)]

Hidenori Tanaka, Alpha A. Lee, and Michael P. Brenner
Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 089901 (2018)

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 043103– Published 27 April, 2017
  • Received 7 November 2016
  • Publisher error corrected 13 August 2018
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