Reply to Comment on 'Classical description of H(1s) and H*(n=2) for cross-section calculations relevant to charge-exchange diagnostics

CARIATORE, N. D.; OLSON, R.; OTRANTO, S.

PHYSICAL REVIEW A - ATOMIC, MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2016 vol. 93 p. 667021 - 667025

1050-2947

In reply to the Comment of Jorge et al. [Phys. Rev. A 93, 066701 (2016)], we agree and reconfirm thatthe alternative classical trajectory Monte Carlo method (called hydrogenic-Z-CTMC) radial distributions forH∗ (n = 2) we recently published are not stable in time. However, we show that such lack of stability whichis more noticeable for H(2s) than for H(2p) is due to the initialization procedure employed and not to thehydrogenic-Z-CTMC method itself. A new set of completely stable hydrogenic-Z-CTMC calculations forH∗ (n = 2) is introduced and found in very good agreement with standard microcanonical results reinforcing ourprevious findings. A second criticism of Jorge et al. concerning the number of components in hydrogenic-Z-CTMC with n > 1 for H(1s) is shown not to have a significant impact on relative (n,l) populations in the finalstate.