Unbiased charge oscillations in DNA monomer-polymers and dimer-polymers

Abstract

We call {\it monomer} a B-DNA base-pair and examine, analytically and numerically, electron or hole oscillations in monomer- and dimer-polymers, i.e., periodic sequences with repetition unit made of one or two monomers. We employ a tight-binding (TB) approach at the base-pair level to readily determine the spatiotemporal evolution of a single extra carrier along a $N$ base-pair polymer. We study HOMO and LUMO eigenspectra as well as the mean over time probabilities to find the carrier at a particular monomer. We use the pure mean transfer rate $k$ to evaluate the easiness of charge transfer. The inverse decay length $\beta$ for exponential fits $k(d)$, where $d$ is the charge transfer distance, and the exponent $\eta$ for power law fits $k(N)$ are computed; generally power law fits are better. We illustrate that increasing the number of different parameters involved in the TB description, the fall of $k(d)$ or $k(N)$ becomes steeper and show the range covered by $\beta$ and $\eta$. Finally, both for the time-independent and the time-dependent problem, we analyze the {\it palindromicity} and the {\it degree of eigenspectrum dependence} of the probabilities to find the carrier at a particular monomer.

17 pages, 10 figures

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