title: Localization properties of electronic states in a polaron model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers.
abstract: We numerically investigate localization properties of electronic states in a static model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers with realistic parameters obtained by quantum-chemical calculation. The randomness in the on-site energies caused by the electron-phonon coupling is completely correlated to the off-diagonal parts. In the single electron model, the effect of the hydrogen-bond stretchings, the twist angles between the base pairs and the finite system size effects on the energy dependence of the localization length and on the Lyapunov exponent are given. The localization length is reduced by the influence of the fluctuations in the hydrogen bond stretchings. It is also shown that the helical twist angle affects the localization length in the poly(dG)-poly(dC) DNA polymer more strongly than in the poly(dA)-poly(dT) one. Furthermore, we show resonance structures in the energy dependence of the localization length when the system size is relatively small.
authors.affiliation: Aoyama 5-7-14-205, 950-2002 Niigata, Japan. hyamada@uranus.dti.ne.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Starikov
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hennig
authors.forename: J F R
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Archilla
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011067:Poly dA-dT / Q000737:chemistry*; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*; D055672:Static Electricity; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D011067:Poly dA-dT; C019530:poly(dC-dG); D004247:DNA