Reply to "Comment on 'Thomson rings in a disk' "
Statistical Mechanics
2017-02-09 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate that our model [Phys.Rev. E91, 032312 (2015)] serves as a useful tool to trace the evolution of equilibrium configurations of one-component charged particles confined in a disk. Our approach reduces significantly the computational effort in minimizing the energy of equilibrium configurations and demonstrates a remarkable agreement with the values provided by molecular dynamics calculations. We show that the Comment misrepresents our paper, and fails to provide plausible arguments against the formation hexagonal structure for n>200 in molecular dynamics calculations.
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@article{arxiv.1701.06179,
title = {Reply to "Comment on 'Thomson rings in a disk' "},
author = {A. Puente and R. G. Nazmitdinov and M. Cerkaski and K. N. Pichugin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06179},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables