Premelting controlled active matter in ice
arXiv:2110.10065 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.024601
Abstract
Self-propelled particles can undergo complex dynamics due to a range of bulk and surface interactions. When a particle is embedded in a host solid near its bulk melting temperature, the latter may melt at the surface of the former in a process known as interfacial premelting. The thickness of the melt film depends on the temperature, impurities, material properties and geometry. A temperature gradient is accompanied by a thermomolecular pressure gradient that drives the interfacial liquid from high to low temperatures and hence the particle from low to high temperatures, in a process called thermal regelation. When the host material is ice and the embedded particle is a biological entity, one has a particularly novel form of active matter, which addresses interplay between a wide range of problems, from extremophiles of both terrestrial and exobiological relevance to ecological dynamics in Earth's cryosphere. Of basic importance in all such settings is the combined influence of biological activity and thermal regelation in controlling the redistribution of bioparticles. Therefore, we re-cast this class of regelation phenomena in the stochastic framework of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics and make predictions relevant to this and related problems of interest in biological and geophysical problems. We examine how thermal regelation compromises paleoclimate studies in the context of ice core dating and we find that the activity influences particle dynamics during thermal regelation by enhancing the effective diffusion coefficient. Therefore, accurate dating relies on a quantitative treatment of both effects.
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