About the Authors

Patrick Hillenbrand

Affiliation Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Georg Fritz

Affiliations Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany, Department of Biology I, Synthetic Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Ulrich Gerland

gerland@lmu.de

Affiliation Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PH GF UG. Performed the experiments: PH. Analyzed the data: PH GF UG. Wrote the paper: PH GF UG.