Biopolymer hairpin loops sustained by polarons
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Biopolymer hairpin loops sustained by polarons.
We show that polarons can sustain looplike configurations in flexible biopolymers and that the size of the loops depend on both the flexural rigidity of the polymer and the electron-phonon coupling constant. In particular we show that for single stranded DNA (ssDNA) and polyacetylene such loops can have as few as seven monomers. We also show that these configurations are very stable under therm...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.021910