Fluctuations and Rheology in Active Bacterial Suspensions

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Chen, Daniel T.N.
Lau, Andy C.W.
Hough, Lawrence A.
Islam, Mohammad F.
Yodh, Arjun G
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We probe nonequilibrium properties of an active bacterial bath through measurements of correlations of passive tracer particles and the response function of a driven, optically trapped tracer. These measurements demonstrate violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and enable us to extract the power spectrum of the active stress fluctuations. In some cases, we observe 1/√w scaling in the noise spectrum which we show can be derived from a theoretical model incorporating coupled stress, orientation, and concentration fluctuations of the bacteria.

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2007-10-03
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Suggested Citation: Chen, D.T.N., Lau, A.W.C., Hough, L.A., Islam, M.F., Goulian, M., Lubensky, T.C. and Yodh, A.G. (2007). Physical Review Letters. 99, 148302. © 2007 The American Physical Society http://dx.doi.org.10.1003/PhysRevLett.99.148302
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