%0 Journal Article
%A Mousavi, S. Mahdiyeh
%A Gompper, Gerhard
%A Winkler, Roland G.
%T Active bath-induced localization and collapse of passive semiflexible polymers
%J The journal of chemical physics
%V 155
%N 4
%@ 1089-7690
%C Melville, NY
%I American Institute of Physics
%M FZJ-2021-03162
%P 044902
%D 2021
%X The conformational and dynamical properties of a passive polymer embedded in a bath of active Brownian particles (ABPs) are studied by Langevin dynamics simulations. Various activities and ABP concentrations below and above the critical values for motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) are considered. In a homogeneous ABP fluid, the embedded polymer swells with increasing bath activity, with stronger swelling for larger densities. The polymer dynamics is enhanced, with the diffusion coefficient increasing by a power-law with increasing activity, where the exponent depends on the ABP concentration. For ABP concentrations in the MIPS regime, we observe a localization of the polymer in the low-density ABP phase associated with polymer collapse for moderate activities and a reswelling for high activities accom- panied by a preferred localization in the high-density ABP phase. Localization and reswelling are independent of the polymer stiffness, with stiff polymers behaving similarly to flexible polymers. The polymer collapse is associated with a slowdown of its dynamics and a significantly smaller center-of-mass diffusion coefficient. In general, the polymer dynamics can only partially be described by an effective (bath) tempera- ture. Moreover, the properties of a polymer embedded in a homogeneous active bath deviate quantitatively from those of a polymer composed of active monomers, i.e., linear chains of ABPs; however, such a polymer exhibits qualitatively similar activity-dependent features.
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%9 Journal Article
%$ 34340385
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%R 10.1063/5.0058150
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/894290