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Optical conductivity of wet DNA

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A. Huebsch, R.G. Endres, D.L. Cox, R.R.P. Singh

Soft Condensed Matter · Submitted 25 Jan 2005

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The authors' main claim Our density functional theory calculations (using SIESTA) for four base pair B-DNA with order 250 surrounding water molecules suggest a thermally activated doping of the DNA by water states which generically leads to an electronic contribution to low-frequency absorption.

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CitationA. Huebsch, D.L. Cox, R.G. Endres, R.R.P. Singh. "Optical conductivity of wet DNA." arXiv:cond-mat/0501610 (2005). https://pith.science/paper/NJG4VTOS
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Motivated by recent experiments we have studied the optical conductivity of DNA in its natural environment containing water molecules and counter ions. Our density functional theory calculations (using SIESTA) for four base pair B-DNA with order 250 surrounding water molecules suggest a thermally activated doping of the DNA by water states which generically leads to an electronic contribution to low-frequency absorption. The main contributions to the doping result from water near DNA ends, breaks, or nicks and are thus potentially associated with temporal or structural defects in the DNA.

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s0 Motivated by recent experiments we have studied the optical conductivity of DNA in its natural environment containing water molecules and counter ions. contribution 0.54 0.75 0.03 asserted 0.93
s1 Our density functional theory calculations (using SIESTA) for four base pair B-DNA with order 250 surrounding water molecules suggest a thermally activated doping of the DNA by water states which generically leads to an electronic contribution to low-frequency absorption. result 0.72 0.95 0.64 hedged possibility 0.98
s2 The main contributions to the doping result from water near DNA ends, breaks, or nicks and are thus potentially associated with temporal or structural defects in the DNA. interpretation 0.89 0.82 0.30 hedged possibility 0.87

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Motivated by recent experiments we have studied the optical conductivity of DNA in its natural environment containing water molecules and counter ions. Our density functional theory calculations (using SIESTA) for four base pair B-DNA with order 250 surrounding water molecules suggest a thermally activated doping of the DNA by water states which generically leads to an electronic contribution to low-frequency absorption. The main contributions to the doping result from water near DNA ends, breaks, or nicks and are thus potentially associated with temporal or structural defects in the DNA.

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