Influence of vibrational modes on the electronic properties of DNA

Details Influence of vibrational modes on the electronic properties of DNA Influence of vibrational modes on the electronic properties of DNA

2006-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611745v2

PRB 75,115125 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages, 6 figures, replaced with published version

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We investigate the electron (hole) transport through short double-stranded DNA wires in which the electrons are strongly coupled to the specific vibrational modes (vibrons) of the DNA. We analyze the problem starting from a tight-binding model of DNA, with parameters derived from ab-initio calculations, and describe the dissipative transport by equation-of-motion techniques. For homogeneous DNA sequences like Poly- (Guanine-Cytosine) we find the transport to be quasi-ballistic with an effective density of states which is modified by the electron-vibron coupling. At low temperatures the linear conductance is strongly enhanced, but above the `semiconducting' gap it is affected much less. In contrast, for inhomogeneous (`natural') sequences almost all states are strongly localized, and transport is dominated by dissipative processes. In this case, a non-local electron-vibron coupling influences the conductance in a qualitative and sequence-dependent way.

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