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Universal properties of active membranes
Francesco Cagnetta, Viktor Skultety, Martin R. Evans +1
We put forward a general field theory for membranes with embedded activators and analyse their critical properties using renormalization group techniques. Depending on the membrane…
A renormalization group study of the dynamics of active membranes: universality classes and scaling laws
Francesco Cagnetta, Viktor Skultety, Martin R. Evans +1
Motivated by experimental observations of patterning at the leading edge of motile eukaryotic cells, we introduce a general model for the dynamics of nearly-flat fluid membranes dr…
Kinetic roughening in active interfaces
Francesco Cagnetta, Martin R. Evans, Davide Marenduzzo
The essential features of many interfaces driven out of equilibrium are described by the same equation---the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation. How do living interfaces, such as t…
A nonequilibrium strategy for fast target search on the genome
F. Cagnetta, D. Michieletto, D. Marenduzzo
Vital biological processes such as genome repair require fast and efficient binding of selected proteins to specific target sites on DNA. Here we propose an active target search me…
Inviscid limit of the active interface equations
Francesco Cagnetta, Martin R. Evans
We present a detailed solution of the active interface equations in the inviscid limit. The active interface equations were previously introduced as a toy model of membrane-protein…
Statistical mechanics of a single active slider on a fluctuating interface
Francesco Cagnetta, Martin R. Evans, Davide Marenduzzo
We study the statistical mechanics of a single active slider on a fluctuating interface, by means of numerical simulations and theoretical arguments. The slider, which moves by def…
Active interface growth and pattern formation in membrane-protein systems
F. Cagnetta, M. R. Evans, D. Marenduzzo
Inspired by recent experimental observation of patterning at the membrane of a living cell, we propose a generic model for the dynamics of a fluctuating interface driven by particl…