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

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.