Maciá Barber, Enrique Alfonso2023-06-202023-06-202009-091098-012110.1103/PhysRevB.80.125102https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42727©2009 The American Physical Society. I warmly thank Alexander Voityuk for sharing useful information and M. V. Hernández for a critical reading of the manuscript. This work has been supported by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Banco Santander through Project No. PR34/07-15824.The presence of synchronized, collective twist motions of the Watson-Crick base pairs in DNA duplexes (helicoidal standing waves) can efficiently enhance the pi-pi orbital overlapping between nonconsecutive base pairs via a long-range, phonon-correlated tunneling effect. The resulting structural patterns are described within the framework of dynamical phyllotaxis, providing a realistic treatment which takes into account both the intrinsic three-dimensional, helicoidal geometry of DNA, and the coupling between the electronic degrees of freedom and double-helix DNA molecular dynamics at low frequencies. The main features of the resulting electronic band structures are discussed for several resonance frequencies of interest, highlighting the possible biophysical implications of the obtained results.engjournal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.125102https://journals.aps.orgopen access538.9Charge-transferContact pressureNucleosome coreHole transferTransportModelConductivityFluctuationsConformationMoleculesFísica de materialesFísica del estado sólido2211 Física del Estado Sólido