Kinks in two-phase lipid bilayer membranes

DOI10.1007/S00526-012-0550-ZzbMATH Open1272.49091arXiv1603.02721OpenAlexW2049200757MaRDI QIDQ368540FDOQ368540

Authors: Michael Helmers 

Publication date: 23 September 2013

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

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.

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

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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)

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