Comment on "Estimate of the vibrational frequencies of spherical virus particles"

Lucien Saviot (1) , Daniel B. Murray (2) , Eugène Duval (3) , Alain Mermet (3)

1 LRRS - Laboratoire de Recherche sur la Réactivité des Solides
2 Department of Physics, Okanagan University College - Department of Physics, Okanagan University College
3 LPCML - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents

This comment corrects some errors which appeared in the calculation of an elastic sphere eigenenergies. As a result, the symmetry of the mode having the lowest frequency is changed. Also a direction for calculating the damping of these modes for embedded elastic spheres is given.

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Lucien Saviot, Daniel B. Murray, Eugène Duval, Alain Mermet. Comment on "Estimate of the vibrational frequencies of spherical virus particles". Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2004, 69, pp.023901. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.69.023901⟩. ⟨hal-00000484v2⟩