Comment on "Sound Modes broadening in Quasicrystals"

Gerrit Coddens (1)

1 LSI - Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés - Irradiated Solids Laboratory

Recently de Boissieu et al. proposed an explanation for the broadening of acoustic modes observed in quasicrystals (QC). It is the transcription of a well-known model used for glasses. We raise two fundamental objections against applying it to QC.

Mots clés: phonons; quaszicrystals

Domaines: Systèmes désordonnés et réseaux de neurones [cond-mat.dis-nn]

Gerrit Coddens. Comment on "Sound Modes broadening in Quasicrystals". 2005. ⟨hal-00018484⟩