Dynamical phase transition of a periodically driven DNA

Mishra, Garima ; Sadhukhan, Poulomi ; Bhattacharjee, Somendra M. ; Kumar, Sanjay (2013) Dynamical phase transition of a periodically driven DNA Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 87 (2). ISSN 1539-3755

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022718

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022718

Abstract

Replication and transcription are two important processes in living systems. To execute such processes, various proteins work far away from equilibrium in a staggered way. Motivated by this, aspects of hysteresis during unzipping of DNA under a periodic drive are studied. A steady-state phase diagram of a driven DNA is proposed which is experimentally verifiable. As a two-state system, we also compare the results of DNA with that of an Ising magnet under an asymmetrical variation of the magnetic field.

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