Publisher’s Note: “Drift of spiral waves controlled by a polarized electric field” [J. Chem. Phys. 124, 014505 (2006)]

2006 ◽  
Vol 124 (18) ◽  
pp. 189901
Author(s):  
Jiang-Xing Chen ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
You-Quan Li
Author(s):  
Shreyas Punacha ◽  
Sebastian Berg ◽  
Anupama Sebastian ◽  
Valentin I. Krinski ◽  
Stefan Luther ◽  
...  

Rotating spiral waves of electrical activity in the heart can anchor to unexcitable tissue (an obstacle) and become stable pinned waves. A pinned rotating wave can be unpinned either by a local electrical stimulus applied close to the spiral core, or by an electric field pulse that excites the core of a pinned wave independently of its localization. The wave will be unpinned only when the pulse is delivered inside a narrow time interval called the unpinning window (UW) of the spiral. In experiments with cardiac monolayers, we found that other obstacles situated near the pinning centre of the spiral can facilitate unpinning. In numerical simulations, we found increasing or decreasing of the UW depending on the location, orientation and distance between the pinning centre and an obstacle. Our study indicates that multiple obstacles could contribute to unpinning in experiments with intact hearts.


2014 ◽  
Vol 140 (18) ◽  
pp. 184901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing-Wei Li ◽  
Mei-Chun Cai ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Alexander V. Panfilov ◽  
Hans Dierckx

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Rajagopal ◽  
Irene Moroz ◽  
Balamurali Ramakrishnan ◽  
Anitha Karthikeyan ◽  
Prakash Duraisamy

Abstract A Morris-Lecar neuron model is considered with Electric and Magnetic field effects where the electric field is a time varying sinusoid and magnetic field is simulated using an exponential flux memristor. We have shown that the exposure to electric and magnetic fields have significant effects on the neurons and have exhibited complex oscillations. The neurons exhibit a frequency-locked state for the periodic electric field and different ratios of frequency locked states with respect to the electric field frequency is also presented. To show the impact of the electric and magnetic fields on network of neurons, we have constructed different types of network and have shown the network wave propagation phenomenon. Interestingly the nodes exposed to both electric and magnetic fields exhibit more stable spiral waves compared to the nodes exhibited only to the magnetic fields. Also, when the number of layers are increased the range of electric field frequency for which the layers exhibit spiral waves also increase. Finally the noise effects on the field affected neuron network are discussed and multilayer networks supress spiral waves for a very low noise variance compared against the single layer network.


2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-chun Cai ◽  
Jun-ting Pan ◽  
Hong Zhang
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ChemPhysChem ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 613-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Seipel ◽  
Matthias Zierhut ◽  
Arno F. Münster

1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Steinbock ◽  
J. Schütze ◽  
S. C. Müller

2009 ◽  
Vol 622 ◽  
pp. 195-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
EHUD YARIV ◽  
TOUVIA MILOH

The effect of a remote insulating boundary on the electro-magneto-phoretic motion of an insulating spherical particle suspended in a conducting liquid is investigated using an iterative reflection scheme developed about the unbounded-fluid-domain solution of Leenov & Kolin (J. Chem. Phys., vol. 22, no. 4, p. 683). Wall-induced corrections result from velocity reflections, successively introduced so as to maintain the no-slip condition on the wall and particle boundaries, as well as from the Lorentz forces associated with comparable reflections of the electric field. This method generates asymptotic expansions in λ (≪1), the ratio of particle size to particle–wall separation. The leading-order correction to the hydrodynamic force on the particle appears atO(λ3); it is directed along the leading-order force and tends to augment it.


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