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  • Title: Bright solitary waves as charge transport in DNA: A variational approximation.
    Author: Belobo Belobo D, Dang Koko A.
    Journal: Biopolymers; 2020 Mar; 111(3):e23346. PubMed ID: 31875331.
    Abstract:
    Modeling energy and charge transfer in DNA has been a challenging issue because of many conformations DNA can take. Due to its simplicity, we propose a discrete variational approach to study the charge transfer mechanism in DNA based on the Holstein-Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. It is shown that bright solitary waves may propagate through the DNA and the variational approximation provides explicit relations between experimental parameters and important characteristics of the waves such as amplitude, width, chirp and homogenous phase, and energy. Our analytical predictions are confirmed by intensive numerical simulations with a good accuracy.
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