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A new variational technique is developed to investigate the polaronic features of the Holstein Molecular Crystal Model. It is based on a linear superposition of Bloch states that describe large and small polaron wave functions. It is shown…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , G. Iadonisi

The ground state of the Holstein molecular crystal model in one dimension is studied using the Global-Local variational method, analyzing in particular the total energy, kinetic energy, phonon energy, and interaction energy over a broad…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. H. Romero , David W. Brown , Katja Lindenberg

We consider resonant transport through a molecular quantum dot coupled to a local vibration mode. Applying the non-equilibrium Green function technique in the polaron representation, we develop a non-perturbative scheme to calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Zazunov , Thierry Martin

We suggest a theory of internal coherent tunneling in the pseudogap region where the applied voltage is below the free electron gap. We consider quasi 1D systems where the gap is originated by a lattice dimerization like in polyacethylene,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. I. Matveenko , S. Brazovskii

We study theoretically a fundamental issue in solids: the evolution of the optical spectra of polaron as the electron-phonon coupling increases. By comparing the exact results obtained by diagrammatic Monte Carlo method and the data got…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-18 G. De Filippis , V. Cataudella , A. S. Mishchenko , N. Nagaosa

Small polaron behavior in a two dimensional honeycomb net is studied by applying the strong coupling perturbative method to the Holstein molecular crystal model. We find that small optical polarons can be mobile also if the electrons are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Marco Zoli

Ionic currents accompanying DNA translocation strongly depend on molarity of the electrolyte solution and the shape and surface charge of the nanopore. By means of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations it is shown how conductance is modulated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-16 Valerio Mazzone , Simone Melchionna , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Polarons, quasiparticles arising from electron-phonon coupling, are crucial in understanding material properties such as high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance. However, scarce studies have been performed to…

We study a model for polaron-like charge transport mechanism along DNA molecules with emphasis on the impact of parametrical and structural disorder. Our model Hamiltonian takes into account the coupling of the charge carrier to two…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 D. Hennig , J. F. R. Archilla , J. Agarwal

Exact diagonalization calculations show a continuous transition from delocalized to small polaron behavior as a function of intersite electron-lattice coupling. A transition, found previously at Hartree-Fock level [Yonemitsu et al., Phys.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-16 J. Lorenzana , A. Dobry

We compare standard perturbation theory with the polaron transformation for non-linear transport of electrons through a two-level system. For weak electron-phonon coupling and large bias, there is good agreement between both approaches.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. Brandes , T. Vorrath

The dynamics of the DNA denaturation is studied using the Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model. The denaturation rate of double stranded polymers decreases exponentially as function of length below the denaturation temperature. Above Tc, the rate…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Titus S. van Erp , Michel Peyrard

We introduce a variational wave-function to study the polaron formation when the electronic transfer integral depends on the relative displacement between nearest-neighbor sites giving rise to a non-local electron-phonon coupling with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 C. A. Perroni , E. Piegari , M. Capone , V. Cataudella

We develop a theoretical approach to study the transient dynamics and the time-dependent statistics for the Anderson-Holstein model in the regime of strong electron-phonon coupling. For this purpose we adapt a recently introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Seoane Souto , R. Avriller , R. C. Monreal , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati

We propose a phonon-assisted tunnelling model for explanation of conductivity dependence on temperature and temperature-dependent I-V characteristics in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules. The capability of this model for explanation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-13 Povilas Pipinys , Antanas Kiveris

We study nonlinear dynamics of a periodic inhomogeneous DNA double helical chain under dynamic plane-base rotator model by considering angular rotation of bases in a plane normal to the helical axis. The dynamics is governed by a perturbed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-07-16 M. Daniel , V. Vasumathi

An analytical variational method is applied to the molecular Holstein Hamiltonian in which the dispersive features of the dimension dependent phonon spectrum are taken into account by a force constant approach. The crossover between a large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Zoli , A. N. Das

We present a model of proton tunnelling across DNA hydrogen bonds, compute the characteristic tunnelling time (CTT) from donor to acceptor and discuss its biological implications. The model is a double oscillator characterised by three…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Jingxi Luo

We consider transport through finite quantum systems such as quantum barriers, wells, dots or junctions, coupled to local vibrational modes in the quantal regime. As a generic model we study the Holstein-Hubbard Hamiltonian with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Fehske , G. Wellein , J. Loos , A. R. Bishop

Quantum transport for DNA conduction has widely studied with interest in application as a candidate in making nanowires as well as interest in the scientific mechanism. In this paper, we review recent works with concerning the electronic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-13 Hiroaki Yamada , Kazumoto Iguchi