Quantum diffusion in polaron model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers

H. Yamada (), E. B. Starikov () and D. Hennig ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 59, issue 2, 185-192

Abstract: We numerically investigate quantum diffusion of an electron in a model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers with fluctuation of the parameters due to the impact of colored noise. The randomness is introduced by fluctuations of distance between two consecutive bases along the stacked base pairs. We demonstrate that in the model the decay time of the correlation can control the spread of the electronic wavepacket. Furthermore it is shown that in a motional narrowing regime the averaging over fluctuation causes ballistic propagation of the wavepacket, and in the adiabatic regime the electronic states are affected by localization. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 87.15.-v Biomolecules: structure and physical properties; 63.20.Kr Phonon-electron and phonon-phonon interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2007-00274-4

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