Efimov-like phase of a three-stranded DNA and the renormalization-group limit cycle
Tanmoy Pal1, Poulomi Sadhukhan1, Somendra M Bhattacharjee1,2
1Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India.
Abstract:
A three-stranded DNA with short range base pairings only is known to exhibit a classical analog of the quantum Efimov effect, viz., a three-chain bound state at the two-chain melting point where no two are bound. By using a nonperturbative renormalization-group method for a rigid duplex DNA and a flexible third strand, with base pairings and strand exchange, we show that the Efimov-DNA is associated with a limit cycle type behavior of the flow of an effective three-chain interaction. The analysis also shows that thermally generated bubbles play an essential role in producing the effect. A toy model for the flow equations shows the limit cycle in an extended three-dimensional parameter space of the two-chain coupling and a complex three-chain interaction.
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