Moving breathers in bent DNA with realistic parameters

Modern Physics Letters B

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 1319-1326

  Cuevas, J ^a   Starikov, E B ^b   Archilla, J F R ^a   Hennig, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete breathers; DNA; Geometry; Intrinsic localized modes; Moving breathers

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 12344279141     PISSN: 02179849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217984904007840     Document Type: Article

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