Reply to comment by S.-K. Yip cond-mat/0611426

Abstract

We respond to S.-K. Yip's criticism of our work on the classification of spinor condensates. We explain why his criticism is unfounded, emphasizing that the phases he mentions have been addressed in our paper cond-mat/0611230. To provide a constructive aspect to this response, we use it as an opportunity to show how our classification scheme makes explicit not only spin rotations which leave spinor states invariant, but also the phase factors which need to accompany them.