Charge trapping in DNA due to intrinsic vibrational hot spots
- 4 February 2003
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 118 (8) , 3731-3735
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1539091
Abstract
We study temperature effects on the characteristic time for which charge carriers remain spatially confined while interacting with fluctuational openings (bubbles) of double stranded DNA. Using semiclassical molecular-dynamics simulations, we find that in the low-temperature regime this characteristic time decreases in a power-law fashion with temperature and coincides with the polaronic lifetime. However, above 50–70 K the confinement time exhibits an exponential increase with temperature. We demonstrate that this enhanced trapping is a result of intrinsic dynamical structural disorder resulting from thermal fluctuations. Specifically, nonlinearity-induced hot spots in the lattice subsystem form breathing potential barriers confining the charge for substantially longer times.Keywords
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