{
  "id": "cond-mat/0507179",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-07-07T16:32:55.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-07-07T16:32:55.000Z",
  "title": "Energetics of holes trapped in DNA",
  "authors": [
    "V. Apalkov",
    "Tapash Chakraborty"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report on our study of the electronic properties of guanine traps in the DNA surrounded by adenines. We have shown that for a typical range of DNA parameters, formation of the bound state of two holes at the same guanine trap is possible for the GGG and GGGG traps if the hole-hole interaction is weak, which can be achieved for the DNA in solutions. The origin of the two-hole bound state is the competition between the Coulomb repulsion and the phonon mediated attraction between the holes. For the hole-phonon coupling constant $\\approx 1$ two holes will be at the same trap if the on-site hole-hole repulsion energy is $\\lesssim 0.9 $ eV.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-07-07T16:32:55.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "energetics",
      "guanine trap",
      "on-site hole-hole repulsion energy",
      "two-hole bound state"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2005cond.mat..7179A"
    }
  }
}