Singh, Amar; Singh, Navin - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 392 (2013) 9, pp. 2052-2059
The cations, in the form of salt, present in a solution containing DNA play a crucial role in the opening of the two strands of DNA. We use a simple non-linear model and investigate the role of these cations on the mechanical unzipping of DNA. The Hamiltonian is modified to incorporate the...