Comment on "anharmonic properties of the vibrational quantum computer" [J. Chem. Phys. 126, 204102 (2007)

Suitable molecules for quantum computing cannot be discussed in terms of anharmonicity and CNOT gates alone. The validity of the approximate approach [M. Zhao and D. Babikov, J. Chem. Phys.126, 204102 (2007)] is limited. Frequencies and anharmonicities cannot be used independent from the molecule. Hermite polynomials with the linear approximation for the dipole moment lead to oversimplified gates with potentially low intensities.     

Comment on "Heat capacity, enthalpy fluctuations, and configurational entropy in broken ergodic systems" [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 164503 (2010)

A critical examination shows that the specific heat and shear modulus relaxation spectra do not support the notions of continuously broken ergodicity and loss of configurational contribution on isothermal glass transition, nor does the long-known result that C(p) → 0 as T → 0 K prove that S(conf) → 0. Spectra show variation of the real and imaginary components due to phase lag and not due to loss of configurational degrees of freedom. The high-frequency shear modulus, G(∞), of glass increases with time as its fictive temperature decreases and dG(∞)∕dT decreases when a glass forms.