In the Search of Electron Correlation Effects in DNA

• Authors: A. Wróbel , P. Wróbel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We discuss the energy scale separation induced in DNA by gaps between molecular orbital states of individual bases and by electron correlations. We also demonstrate how this separation gives rise to effective low energy models of electron transport in DNA.

Keywords

EN

87.14.gk; 75.20.-g; 71.10.Fd

Discipline

• 75.20.-g: Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, and superparamagnetism
• 71.10.Fd: Lattice fermion models (Hubbard model, etc.)
• 87.14.gk: DNA

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 118
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 409-412

Dates

published

2010-08

Contributors

author

A. Wróbel

• Institute of Physics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

author

P. Wróbel

• Institute for the Low Temperature and Structure Research, P.O. Box 1410, 50-950 Wrocław 2, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.118.409