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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 16: Poster - Glasses / Stat. Phys. Bio. / Networks (joint DY/BP/CPP/SOE)

BP 16.20: Poster

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 09:30–12:30, P1

Active Turing Systems — •Silke Bergeler, Florian Thüroff, and Erwin Frey — Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) and Center for NanoScience (CeNS), Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Active Turing systems combine the ideas of active matter and reaction diffusion systems showing Turing patterns. We investigate such systems analytically and numerically starting within the framework of Boltzmann-like equations. Adapting previous analytical approaches for active systems we derive a set of hydrodynamic equations and perform a linear stability analysis of the isotropic uniform steady state. We find that the stability against homogeneous perturbations switches from unstable to stable by crossing a threshold noise from below. From direct simulations of the Boltzmann equation we observe that activity changes the form of the Turing patterns and broadens the parameter range for which patterns emerge. Analytical investigations on the stability of the isotropic homogeneous steady state are confirmed by numerical analysis.