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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 22: Active Matter 3 (joint session BP/CPP/DY)

CPP 22.7: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 7. September 2022, 11:15–11:30, H16

Analytical study of active semiflexible ring polymer — •Christian A. Philipps, Gerhard Gompper, and Roland G. Winkler — Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Nature provides a variety of active matter systems, with self-propelled agents consuming internal energy or extracting it from their vicinity for locomotion [1]. Examples on the cellular level are self-propelled semiflexible actomyosin ring-like filaments driven by myosin motors in the cytoskeleton. We present a theoretical study of an active ring polymer [2] with tangential propulsion applying the continuous Gaussian semiflexible polymer model [3]. By a normal-mode expansion, the ring polymer conformational and dynamical properties, emerging by the homogeneous active force, and its interplay with rigidity are determined. Remarkably, the ring conformations are unaffected by activity for any rigidity. In contrast to linear filaments, the center-of-mass motion is independent of propulsion. However, activity strongly influences the internal dynamics with an activity enhanced diffusive for the flexible and a ballistic regime for the semiflexible ring polymer. Furthermore, a dominant rotational mode over several orders of magnitude in time emerges for high activities, which implies a rotational motion of the entire ring polymer. [1] R. G. Winkler, G. Gompper, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 040901 (2020); [2] M. Mousavi, R. G. Winkler, G. Gompper, J. Chem. Phys. 150, 064913 (2019); [3] T. Eisenstecken, G. Gompper, R. G. Winkler, Polymers 8, 304 (2016).