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On the possibility that local mechanical forcing permits directionally-controlled long-range electron transfer along DNA-like molecular wires with no need of an external electric field

Mechanical control of electrons

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It is shown that in DNA-like molecules containing added, excess charges, such as electrons and holes (cation-radicals), it is possible by highly energetic, local, mechanical excitation at definite places of the chain to control the creation of breathers/bubbles and hence to control the long-range transfer of charges moving along the chain in a definite given direction with no external electric field needed.

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    Alexander P. Chetverikov

  2. Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Werner Ebeling

  3. Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya 4, 142290, Puschino, Russia

    Viktor D. Lakhno & Alexey S. Shigaev

  4. Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, Paseo Juan XXIII, 1, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Manuel G. Velarde

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Chetverikov, A., Ebeling, W., Lakhno, V. et al. On the possibility that local mechanical forcing permits directionally-controlled long-range electron transfer along DNA-like molecular wires with no need of an external electric field. Eur. Phys. J. B 89, 101 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-60949-1

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