Charge trapping by solitons - A possible transport mechanism in macromolecular systems

MaRDI QIDQ581272zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Angshutosh Khan, Debajyoti Bhaumik, B. Dutta Roy

Publication date 1987

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

biomolecular processescharge transfercharge trappingdegree of stabilityelastic restoring forceslocalized excitationsSchrödinger equationsolitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biophysics (92C05)

Review text

Macromolecules and their aggregates possess polar modes which, when excited, cause deformations, which provoke in turn elastic restoring forces. Even the simplest of such models (involving polarization and elastic modes along a chain) admit localized excitations (solitons) endowed with a characteristic degree of stability; and these provide a mechanism for charge trapping which may be of importance in the understanding of the elusively high efficiency of charge transfer over macroscopic distances evidently involved in various biomolecular processes.

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