Active bacterial baths in droplets
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| author | Villalobos-Concha, Cristian Liu, Zhengyang Ramos, Gabriel Goral, Martyna Lindner, Anke López-León, Teresa Clément, Eric Soto, Rodrigo Cordero, María Luisa |
| author_facet | Villalobos-Concha, Cristian Liu, Zhengyang Ramos, Gabriel Goral, Martyna Lindner, Anke López-León, Teresa Clément, Eric Soto, Rodrigo Cordero, María Luisa |
| contents | Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation relations, and work extraction from heat reservoirs, must be extended beyond the conventional framework of thermal baths. Unlike thermal baths, which are characterized by a single parameter, the temperature, the fundamental descriptors of an active bath remain elusive, especially in confined environments. In this study, buoyant, passive tracers are employed as generalized probes to investigate an active bath comprising motile bacteria confined within a droplet. We demonstrate that momentum transfer from the bath to the tracer can be effectively described as colored noise, characterized by temporal memory and an enhanced effective diffusivity significantly larger compared to thermal Brownian motion values. Using a stochastic analytical framework, we extract the temporal memory and diffusivity parameters that define such an active bath. Notably, the diffusivity scales linearly with bacterial concentration, modulated by a factor representing the role of confinement, expressed as the ratio of the confining radius to the probe radius. This finding, while still awaiting a complete theoretical explanation, offers new insights into the transport properties of confined active baths and paves the way for a deeper understanding of active emulsions driven by confined active matter. |
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| spellingShingle | Active bacterial baths in droplets Villalobos-Concha, Cristian Liu, Zhengyang Ramos, Gabriel Goral, Martyna Lindner, Anke López-León, Teresa Clément, Eric Soto, Rodrigo Cordero, María Luisa Soft Condensed Matter Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation relations, and work extraction from heat reservoirs, must be extended beyond the conventional framework of thermal baths. Unlike thermal baths, which are characterized by a single parameter, the temperature, the fundamental descriptors of an active bath remain elusive, especially in confined environments. In this study, buoyant, passive tracers are employed as generalized probes to investigate an active bath comprising motile bacteria confined within a droplet. We demonstrate that momentum transfer from the bath to the tracer can be effectively described as colored noise, characterized by temporal memory and an enhanced effective diffusivity significantly larger compared to thermal Brownian motion values. Using a stochastic analytical framework, we extract the temporal memory and diffusivity parameters that define such an active bath. Notably, the diffusivity scales linearly with bacterial concentration, modulated by a factor representing the role of confinement, expressed as the ratio of the confining radius to the probe radius. This finding, while still awaiting a complete theoretical explanation, offers new insights into the transport properties of confined active baths and paves the way for a deeper understanding of active emulsions driven by confined active matter. |
| title | Active bacterial baths in droplets |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14088 |