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Main Authors: Phan, Trung V., Li, Shengkai, Ferreris, Domenic, Morris, Ryan, Bos, Julia, Guo, Buming, Martiniani, Stefano, Chaikin, Paul, Kevrekidis, Yannis G., Austin, Robert H.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16691
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author Phan, Trung V.
Li, Shengkai
Ferreris, Domenic
Morris, Ryan
Bos, Julia
Guo, Buming
Martiniani, Stefano
Chaikin, Paul
Kevrekidis, Yannis G.
Austin, Robert H.
author_facet Phan, Trung V.
Li, Shengkai
Ferreris, Domenic
Morris, Ryan
Bos, Julia
Guo, Buming
Martiniani, Stefano
Chaikin, Paul
Kevrekidis, Yannis G.
Austin, Robert H.
contents Social physics explores responses to information exchange in a social network, and can be mapped down to bacterial collective signaling. Here, we explore how social inter-bacterial communication includes coordination of response to communication loss, as opposed to solitary searching for food, with collective response emergence at the population level. We present a 2-dimensional enclosed microfluidic environment that utilizes concentric rings of funnel ratchets, which direct motile E.coli bacteria towards a sole exit hole, an information ``black hole'', passage into the black hole irreversibly sweeps the bacteria away via hydrodynamic flow. We show that the spatiotemporal evolution of entropy production reveals how bacteria avoid crossing the hydrodynamic black hole information horizon.
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spellingShingle Social Physics of Bacteria: Avoidance of an Information Black Hole
Phan, Trung V.
Li, Shengkai
Ferreris, Domenic
Morris, Ryan
Bos, Julia
Guo, Buming
Martiniani, Stefano
Chaikin, Paul
Kevrekidis, Yannis G.
Austin, Robert H.
Biological Physics
Social physics explores responses to information exchange in a social network, and can be mapped down to bacterial collective signaling. Here, we explore how social inter-bacterial communication includes coordination of response to communication loss, as opposed to solitary searching for food, with collective response emergence at the population level. We present a 2-dimensional enclosed microfluidic environment that utilizes concentric rings of funnel ratchets, which direct motile E.coli bacteria towards a sole exit hole, an information ``black hole'', passage into the black hole irreversibly sweeps the bacteria away via hydrodynamic flow. We show that the spatiotemporal evolution of entropy production reveals how bacteria avoid crossing the hydrodynamic black hole information horizon.
title Social Physics of Bacteria: Avoidance of an Information Black Hole
topic Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16691