title: Physical model for recognition tunneling.
abstract: Recognition tunneling (RT) identifies target molecules trapped between tunneling electrodes functionalized with recognition molecules that serve as specific chemical linkages between the metal electrodes and the trapped target molecule. Possible applications include single molecule DNA and protein sequencing. This paper addresses several fundamental aspects of RT by multiscale theory, applying both all-atom and coarse-grained DNA models: (1) we show that the magnitude of the observed currents are consistent with the results of non-equilibrium Green's function calculations carried out on a solvated all-atom model. (2) Brownian fluctuations in hydrogen bond-lengths lead to current spikes that are similar to what is observed experimentally. (3) The frequency characteristics of these fluctuations can be used to identify the trapped molecules with a machine-learning algorithm, giving a theoretical underpinning to this new method of identifying single molecule signals.
authors: Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5250, USA.
authors: Predrag
authors: P
authors: Krstić
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Ashcroft
authors: Stuart
authors: S
authors: Lindsay
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D004566:Electrodes; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D016252:Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling / Q000379:methods*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D036103:Nanotechnology
chemical_list: D004247:DNA
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