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Analysis of a nonlinear model for the DNA double helix: Energy transfer in an inhomogeneous chain

Mario Techera, L. L. Daemen, E. W. Prohofsky

Physical Review A · 1990 · 20 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

We extend a previous analysis of the propagation of energy packets in a one-dimensional model for the DNA double helix by studying how various types of inhomogeneities in the molecule affect the transfer of solitonlike energy packets along the chain.

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