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Thermodynamic behaviour of two-dimensional vesicles revisited
Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh
We study pressurised self-avoiding ring polymers in two dimensions using Monte Carlo simulations, scaling arguments and Flory-type theories, through models which generalise the mod…
Asymptotic Behavior of Inflated Lattice Polygons
Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh
We study the inflated phase of two dimensional lattice polygons with fixed perimeter and variable area, associating a weight to a polygon with area and …
Phase Transitions in Pressurised Semiflexible Polymer Rings
Mithun K. Mitra, Gautam I. Menon, R. Rajesh
We propose and study a model for the equilibrium statistical mechanics of a pressurised semiflexible polymer ring. The Hamiltonian has a term which couples to the algebraic area of…
Driven Disordered Periodic Media with an Underlying Structural Phase Transition
Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta, Gautam I. Menon
We investigate the driven states of a two-dimensional crystal whose ground state can be tuned through a square-triangular transition. The depinning of such a system from a quenched…
Collective Effects in Models for Interacting Molecular Motors and Motor-Microtubule Mixtures
Gautam I. Menon
Three problems in the statistical mechanics of models for an assembly of molecular motors interacting with cytoskeletal filaments are reviewed. First, a description of the hydrodyn…
Asters, Spirals and Vortices in Mixtures of Motors and Microtubules: The Effects of Confining Geometries on Pattern Formation
Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon, P. B. Sunil Kumar
We model the effects of confinement on the stable self-organized patterns obtained in the non-equilibrium steady states of mixtures of molecular motors and microtubules. In experim…