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| - DNA Charge Transfer in an External Field: An Atomistic Approach
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| - We address the problem of charge transfer through DNA−gold junctions from a theoretical and numericalperspective. The geometry and the electronic structure of the DNA fragment is described on an atomisticlevel making use of an extended Su−Schrieffer−Heeger Hamiltonian. The emerging potential energy surfacesexhibit the characteristics of small polaron formation and can be analyzed to obtain the energy parametersrelevant to Marcus' theory of charge transfer and the corresponding interbase hopping rates. At stationarity,the resulting master equations lead to a maximum current of 5 nA per A−DNA double strand upon theapplication of a potential of ±2 V, a value comparable to recent experimental findings. In addition, the overallshape of the I−V curves and their pronounced dependence upon the DNA sequence is reproduced.
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