Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Invariance properties of bacterial random walks in complex structures

  • Giacomo Frangipane,
  • Gaszton Vizsnyiczai,
  • Claudio Maggi,
  • Romolo Savo,
  • Alfredo Sciortino,
  • Sylvain Gigan,
  • Roberto Di Leonardo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10455-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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It has been previously shown theoretically that the average path length of random walks inside a closed domain is invariant. Here the authors demonstrate that this invariance property can be used to predict the mean residence time of swimming bacteria exploring structured micro-environments.