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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 29: PhD Focus session: Theory of stochastic processes with applications in biology (joint session SOE/BP/DY/AKjDPG)

BP 29.3: Talk

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 16:00–16:15, H17

Dynamical phase transition in assemblies of chemotactic cells — •Charlie Duclut — Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

We consider a large number of chemotactic cells that diffuse, die, divide and interact at long range via the release of chemicals. We investigate the dynamics at long time and focus on the phase transition that occurs between a dilute and a dense phase using a renormalization group analysis. If we consider only interactions that conserve the particles number, exact scaling exponents can even be obtained; this analysis predicts in particular a superdiffusive behaviour of the cells close to the phase transition.