Crowding-Enhanced Diffusion: An Exact Theory for Highly Entangled Self-Propelled Stiff Filaments
arXiv:2209.10237 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.138002
Abstract
We study a strongly interacting crowded system of self-propelled stiff filaments by event-driven Brownian dynamics simulations and an analytical theory to elucidate the intricate interplay of crowding and self-propulsion. We find a remarkable increase of the effective diffusivity upon increasing the filament number density by more than one order of magnitude. This counter-intuitive 'crowded is faster' behavior can be rationalized by extending the concept of a confining tube pioneered by Doi and Edwards for highly entangled crowded, passive to active systems. We predict a scaling theory for the effective diffusivity as a function of the Péclet number and the filament number density. Subsequently, we show that an exact expression derived for a single self-propelled filament with motility parameters as input can predict the non-trivial spatiotemporal dynamics over the entire range of length and time scales. In particular, our theory captures short-time diffusion, directed swimming motion at intermediate times, and the transition to complete orientational relaxation at long times.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures
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