Double chains with base pairing: delocalization irrespective to DNA sequencing
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v4
Abstract
The question of whether DNA is intrinsically conducting or not is still a challenge. The ongoing debate on DNA molecules as an electronic material has so far underestimated a key distinction of the system: the role of base pairing (inter chain correlation) in opposition to correlations along each chain. In the present work we show that a disordered double-chain presents truly delocalized states. This effect is irrespective to the sequencing along each chain: DNA-like base pairing reveals to be an efficient delocalization mechanism.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409245,
title = {Double chains with base pairing: delocalization irrespective to DNA sequencing},
author = {R. A. Caetano and P. A. Schulz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409245},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Improved version with further evidences ofdelocalization