Publisher's Note: Electronic structure and carrier transfer in B-DNA monomer polymers and dimer polymers: Stationary and time-dependent aspects of a wire model versus an extended ladder model [Phys. Rev. E 94 , 062403 (2016)]

Charge transport properties of ideal and natural DNA segments, as mutation detectors

“…XY denotes the sequence in the 5 -3 direction. Observation: The HOMO (LUMO) of a base pair is very close to the highest HOMO (lowest LUMO) of its constituent bases 48 , cf. Table 1.…”

“…Mutations and distortions change the values of interaction integrals; this effect is included in present work, using the same method. 26 Observation: the HOMO (LUMO) of a base pair is very close to the highest HOMO (lowest LUMO) of its constituent bases, 48 cf. Table 1.…”

“…Transitions with C 2 T exchange have not been included in this work, because their effects could not be properly grasped within the wire model. These mutations could be studied within the extended ladder model, 48 i.e. a TB description at the single-base level; this will be hopefully done in the future.…”

“…The term eigenspectra is used to describe the whole set of eigenenergies. The eigenspectra of the studied sequences were calculated by numerical diagonalisation of the Hamiltonian matrices, which, within the TB wire model, are real, tridiagonal and symmetric matrices 48,49 . A quantity used to describe the energy structure of a given system is the density of states (DOS), which shows the number (N E ) of states that can be occupied by electrons per energy (E) interval, namely, dN E dE .…”