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TT: Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 26: Transport - Poster Session
TT 26.31: Poster
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 14:30–18:30, P1
Influence of vibrations on electronic transport through DNA — •Benjamin Schmidt1,2, Matthias Hettler2, Gerd Schön1,2, E.B. Starikov2, and Wolfgang Wenzel2 — 1Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany — 2Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
Conductance measurements on DNA ’wires’ display various types of behavior ranging from insulating over semi-conducting to quasi-metallic, depending on the measurement setup and the measured DNA molecule. The variance of the experimental results as well as ab-initio calculations suggest that the environment and vibrational modes of DNA have a dominating influence on the transport properties of DNA wires. In this work we study transport through simple models of homogeneous DNA wires (poly-DNA) using standard Green function technique and Landauer-Buettiker formalism. In particular, we address the influence of specific DNA vibrational modes (with parameters determined by ab-initio methods) on transport in the presence of an environment described by a general bosonic bath. We can describe the crossover from semi-conducting to quasi-metallic behavior in dependence of temperature and the electronic coupling to the vibrational modes and bath.