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# Title: Anomalous Power Law Decay in Solvation Dynamics of DNA: A Mode Coupling Theory Analysis of Ion Contribution

Authors: Biman Bagchi
Abstract: Several time domain fluorescence Stokes shift (TDFSS) experiments have reported a slow power law decay in the hydration dynamics of a DNA molecule. Such a power law has neither been observed in computer simulations nor in some other TDFSS experiments. Here we observe that a slow decay may originate from collective ion contribution because in experiments DNA is immersed in a buffer solution, and also from groove bound water and lastly from DNA dynamics itself. In this work we first express the solvation time correlation function in terms of dynamic structure factors of the solution. We use mode coupling theory to calculate analytically the time dependence of collective ionic contribution. A power law decay in seen to originate from an interplay between long range probe-ion direct correlation function and ion-ion dynamic structure factor. Although the power law decay is reminiscent of Debye-Falkenhagen effect yet solvation dynamics is dominated by ion atmosphere relaxation times at longer length scales (small wave number) than in electrolyte friction. We further discuss why this power law may not originate from water motions which have been computed by molecular dynamics simulations. Lastly, we propose several experiments to check the prediction of the present theoretical work.
 Subjects: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.904943 Cite as: arXiv:1404.5044 [cond-mat.soft] (or arXiv:1404.5044v1 [cond-mat.soft] for this version)

## Submission history

From: Susmita Roy [view email]
[v1] Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:09:19 GMT (555kb)

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