Solenoids and plectonemes in stretched and twisted elastomeric filaments Academic Article

abstract

• 2017 American Physical Society. In a recent paper [Alberucci, Jisha, Smyth, and Assanto, Phys. Rev. A 91, 013841 (2015)PLRAAN1050-294710.1103/PhysRevA.91.013841], Alberucci et al. have studied the propagation of bright spatial solitary waves in highly nonlocal media. We find that the main results in that and related papers concerning soliton shape and dynamics, based on the accessible soliton (AS) approximation, are incorrect; the correct results have already been published by others. These and other inconsistencies in the paper follow from the problems in applying the AS approximation in earlier papers by the group that propagated to the later papers. The accessible soliton theory cannot describe accurately the features and dynamics of solitons in highly nonlocal media.

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Ghatak, A., & Mahadevan, L.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Ghatak, A||Mahadevan, L

publication date

• July 2005

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5101 Astronomical Sciences
• Computer Simulation
• Elasticity
• Elastomers
• Models, Chemical
• Models, Molecular
• Molecular Motor Proteins
• Motion
• Multiprotein Complexes
• Plectonema
• Protein Conformation
• Rubber
• Stress, Mechanical

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.057801

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/178966

start page

• 057801

volume

• 95

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.95.057801