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    Kinetic study for hopping conduction through DNA molecules

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    Recent experiments indicated that disorder effect in DNA may lead to a transition of the charge transport mechanism from band resonant tunnelling to thermal activated hopping. In this letter, based on Mott's variable-range hopping theory we present a kinetic study for the charge transport properties of DNA molecules. Beyond the conventional argument in large-scale systems, our numerical study for finite-size DNA molecules reveals a number of unique features for (i) the I-V characteristics, (ii) the temperature and length dependence, and (iii) the transition from conducting to insulating behaviors.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Appl. Phys. Let

    Weak measurement combined with quantum delayed-choice experiment and implementation in optomechanical system

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    Weak measurement [1,19] combined with quantum delayed-choice experiment that use quantum beam splitter instead of the beam splitter give rise to a surprising amplification effect, i.e., counterintuitive negative amplification effect. We show that this effect is caused by the wave and particle behaviours of the system to be and can't be explained by a semiclassical wave theory, due to the entanglement of the system and the ancilla in quantum beam splitter. The amplification mechanism about wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics lead us to a scheme for implementation of weak measurement in optomechanical system
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