%0 Journal Article
%A Maciá Barber, Enrique Alfonso
%T Electronic structure and transport properties of double-stranded Fibonacci DNA
%D 2006
%@ 1098-0121
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52104
%X We consider a class of synthetic DNA molecules based on a quasiperiodic arrangement of their constituent nucleotides. Making use of a two-step renormalization scheme the double-stranded DNA molecule is modeled in terms of a one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian, which includes contributions from the nucleobase system, the sugar-phosphate backbone, and the environment. Analytical results for the energy spectrum structure and Landauer conductance of Fibonacci DNA approximants are derived and compared with those corresponding to periodic polyGACT-polyCTGA chains. The main effect of quasiperiodic order is the emergence of a highly fragmented energy spectrum, introducing a characteristic low-energy scale in the electronic structure of aperiodic DNA chains. The presence of a series of high-conductance peaks in the transmission spectra of Fibonacci approximants indicates the existence of extended states in these systems. These results open perspectives for experimental work in nanodevices based on synthetic DNA.
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