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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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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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