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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 99, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.108102
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Spiroplasma bacteria propel through viscous fluids by sending kinks or domain walls between regions of opposite handedness down their helical body. A simple elastic model for the domain-wall propagation is formulated and studied using hydrodynamic simulations and scaling arguments, giving good agreement with recent video-microscopy observations. It is shown that the observed helical bacterial pitch angle psi similar or equal to 35 degrees is optimized for maximal speed and efficiency.
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