Quantum transport through a DNA wire in a dissipative environment

Details Quantum transport through a DNA wire in a dissipative environment Quantum transport through a DNA wire in a dissipative environment

2004-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410660v3

Nano Letters 5, 1093 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1021/nl050623g

Electronic transport through DNA wires in the presence of a strong dissipative environment is investigated. We show that new bath-induced electronic states are formed within the bandgap. These states show up in the linear conductance spectrum as a temperature dependent background and lead to a crossover from tunneling to thermal activated behavior with increasing temperature. Depending on the strength of the electron-bath coupling, the conductance at the Fermi level can show a weak exponential or even an algebraic length dependence. Our results suggest a new environmental-induced transport mechanism. This might be relevant for the understanding of molecular conduction experiments in liquid solution, like those recently performed on poly(GC) oligomers in a water buffer (B. Xu et al., Nano Lett 4, 1105 (2004)).

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