Instabilities in complex mixtures with a large number of components

2003/07/14 by Richard P. Sear, Jose A. Cuesta · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.dis-nn

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.245701

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 245701 (2003) · 4 pages, uses RevTeX 4.0

arxiv created 2003/07/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Inside living cells are complex mixtures of thousands of components. It is hopeless to try to characterise all the individual interactions in these mixtures. Thus, we develop a statistical approach to approximating them, and examine the conditions under which the mixtures phase separate. The approach approximates the matrix of second virial coefficients of the mixture by a random matrix, and determines the stability of the mixture from the spectrum of such random matrices.

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