Statistical mechanics of DNA mutation using SUSY quantum mechanics

This paper investigates the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) denaturation through statistical mechanics and demonstrates that the exceptional polynomials lead to DNA mutation. A DNA model with two chains connected by the Morse potential representing the H bonds is considered and the partition function for this model is computed. The partition function is converted into a Schrodinger-like equation. The techniques of SUSY quantum mechanics are used to model the DNA mutation. The thermal denaturation of DNA for each mutated state is also computed.