Spontaneous Oscillations of Collective Molecular Motors

Preprint

26 November 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9611204

Abstract

We analyze a simple stochastic model to describe motor molecules which cooperate in large groups and present a physical mechanism which can lead to oscillatory motion if the motors are elastically coupled to their environment. Beyond a critical fuel concentration, the non-moving state of the system becomes unstable with respect to a mode with angular frequency omega. We present a perturbative description of the system near the instability and demonstrate that oscillation frequencies are determined by the typical timescales of the motors.

Keywords

SPONTANEOUS OSCILLATIONS
COLLECTIVE MOLECULAR
SIMPLE STOCHASTIC
MOLECULAR MOTORS
STOCHASTIC MODEL
MOTOR MOLECULES
COOPERATE
MOTORS

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Version 1, 1996-11-26, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 78 (23), 4510.

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