Instabilities in complex mixtures with a large number of components

Preprint

14 July 2003

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0307326

Abstract

Inside living cells are complex mixtures of thousands of components. It is hopeless to try to characterise all the individual interactions in these mixtures. Thus, we develop a statistical approach to approximating them, and examine the conditions under which the mixtures phase separate. The approach approximates the matrix of second virial coefficients of the mixture by a random matrix, and determines the stability of the mixture from the spectrum of such random matrices.

Keywords

VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS
COMPLEX MIXTURES
MIXTURES PHASE
RANDOM MATRIX
INSTABILITIES
SECOND VIRIAL
LIVING CELLS
APPROXIMATES
MATRICES

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Version 1, 2003-07-14, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 91 (24), 245701.

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