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Comment on "Quantum diffusion of 3-He impurities in solid 4- He"
In this comment I show that the experimental data on quantum diffusion of
3-He impurities in solid 4-He can be explained using the adopted quasiparticle
theory. The contention by E.G. Kisvarsanyi and N.S. Sullivan (KS) in Phys.Rev.B
v. 48, 16557 (1993) as well as in their Reply (ibid. v. 55, 3989 (1997)) to the
Grigor'ev's Comment (Phys.Rev. B v. 55, 3987 (1997)) that "Pushkarov's theory
of phonon scattering fails to fit the data by very large factors" is groundless
and may result from their bad arithmetical error. This means that the
phonon-impurity scattering mechanism of diffusion is consistent with experiment
and its neglecting by KS makes their results questionable.Comment: RevTex, 5 pages, no figures, to be published in Phys.Rev.