title: Stability and dynamics of crystals and glasses of motorized particles.
abstract: Many of the large structures of the cell, such as the cytoskeleton, are assembled and maintained far from equilibrium. We study the stabilities of various structures for a simple model of such a far-from-equilibrium organized assembly in which spherical particles move under the influence of attached motors. From the variational solutions of the many-body master equation for Brownian motion with motorized kicking we obtain a closed equation for the order parameter of localization. Thus, we obtain the transition criterion for localization and stability limits for the crystalline phase and frozen amorphous structures of motorized particles. The theory also allows an estimate of nonequilibrium effective temperatures characterizing the response and fluctuations of motorized asemblies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego and Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, La Jolla, CA 92093-0371, USA.
authors.forename: Tongye
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Peter G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Wolynes
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D003460:Crystallization; D004355:Drug Stability; D005898:Glass; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008956:Models, Chemical; D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D009038:Motion; D010316:Particle Size; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D020409:Molecular Motor Proteins