Scaling of temperature dependence of charge mobility in molecular Holstein chains

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Mar;89(3):032124. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032124. Epub 2014 Mar 20.

Abstract

The temperature dependence of a charge mobility in a model DNA based on a Holstein Hamiltonian is calculated for four types of homogeneous sequences It has turned out that upon rescaling all four types are quite similar. Two types of rescaling, i.e., those for low and intermediate temperatures, are found. The curves obtained are approximated on a logarithmic scale by cubic polynomials. We believe that for model homogeneous biopolymers with parameters close to the designed ones, one can assess the value of the charge mobility without carrying out resource-intensive direct simulation, just by using a suitable approximating function.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Base Sequence
  • Computer Simulation
  • DNA / chemistry*
  • Diffusion
  • Models, Chemical
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nucleotides / chemistry*
  • Static Electricity
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Nucleotides
  • DNA