Reply to ``Comment on `Infrared and Raman selection rules for elastic vibrations of spherical nanoparticles' ``

Makoto Kanehisa (1)

1 LMDH - Laboratoire des Milieux Désordonnés et Hétérogènes

In this Reply, it is shown that, contrary to Goupalov, Saviot, and Duval's argument, apparently contradictory parity assignments for the vector spherical harmonics Y(ll)(')m by different authors, when applied consistently, all yield our selection rule.

Domaines: Matière Condensée [cond-mat]

Makoto Kanehisa. Reply to ``Comment on `Infrared and Raman selection rules for elastic vibrations of spherical nanoparticles' ``. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2006, 74 (19), pp.197402. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.74.197402⟩. ⟨hal-01284392⟩