Path integral description of semiflexible active Brownian polymers.

Semiflexible polymers comprised of active Brownian particles (ABPOs) exhibit intriguing activity-driven conformational and dynamical features. Analytically, the generic properties of ABPOs can be obtained in a mean-field description applying the Gaussian semiflexible polymer model. In this article, we derive a path integral representation of the stationary-state distribution function of such ABPOs, based on the stationary-state distribution function of the normal mode amplitudes following from the Langevin equation of motion.

Hydrodynamics of polymers in an active bath.

The conformational and dynamical properties of active polymers in solution are determined by the nature of the activity. Here, the behavior of polymers with self-propelled, active Brownian particle-type monomers differs qualitatively from that of polymers with monomers driven externally by colored-noise forces. We present simulation and theoretical results for polymers in solution in the presence of external active noise.

Active Brownian filaments with hydrodynamic interactions: conformations and dynamics.

The conformational and dynamical properties of active self-propelled filaments/polymers are investigated in the presence of hydrodynamic interactions by both, Brownian dynamics simulations and analytical theory. Numerically, a discrete linear chain composed of active Brownian particles is considered, analytically, a continuous linear semiflexible polymer with active velocities changing diffusively. The force-free nature of active monomers is accounted for-no Stokeslet fluid flow induced by active forces-and higher order hydrodynamic multipole moments are neglected.

Internal dynamics of semiflexible polymers with active noise.

The intramolecular dynamics of flexible and semiflexible polymers in response to active noise is studied theoretically. The active noise may either originate from interactions of a passive polymer with a bath of active Brownian particles or the polymer itself is comprised of active Brownian particles. We describe the polymer by the continuous Gaussian semiflexible-polymer model, taking into account the finite polymer extensibility.

Bacterial swarmer cells in confinement: a mesoscale hydrodynamic simulation study.

A wide spectrum of Peritrichous bacteria undergo considerable physiological changes when they are inoculated onto nutrition-rich surfaces and exhibit a rapid and collective migration denoted as swarming. Thereby, the length of such swarmer cells and their number of flagella increases substantially. In this article, we investigated the properties of individual E.

Conformational Properties of Active Semiflexible Polymers.

The conformational properties of flexible and semiflexible polymers exposed to active noise are studied theoretically. The noise may originate from the interaction of the polymer with surrounding active (Brownian) particles or from the inherent motion of the polymer itself, which may be composed of active Brownian particles. In the latter case, the respective monomers are independently propelled in directions changing diffusively.