Kinks in two-phase lipid bilayer membranes

DOI10.1007/S00526-012-0550-ZzbMATH Open1272.49091OpenAlexW2049200757MaRDI QIDQ368540FDOQ368540

Authors Michael Helmers

Publication date 23 September 2013

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02721

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergencephase field modeltwo-phase lipid bilayer membrane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Biomechanics (92C10) Membranes (74K15)

Abstract: Common models for two-phase lipid bilayer membranes are based on an energy that consists of an elastic term for each lipid phase and a line energy at interfaces. Although such an energy controls only the length of interfaces, the membrane surface is usually assumed to be at least $C^1$ across phase boundaries. We consider the spontaneous curvature model for closed rotationally symmetric two-phase membranes without excluding tangent discontinuities at interfaces a priorily. We introduce a family of energies for smooth surfaces and phase fields for the lipid phases and derive a sharp interface limit that coincides with the $Gamma$-limit on all reasonable membranes and extends the classical model by assigning a bending energy also to tangent discontinuities. The theoretical result is illustrated by numerical examples.

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