Reply to 'Comment on 'Thomson rings in a disk' '

Abstract

[eng] We demonstrate that our model [Phys. Rev. E 91, 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 it 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.