Reply to "Comment on Novel attractive forces between ions in quantum plasmas" [arXiv:1212.4286]

TL;DR

This paper addresses a comment on previous work that discovered a novel attractive force between ions in quantum plasmas, clarifying the original findings and responding to critiques.

Contribution

It provides a detailed reply to a comment on the authors' earlier discovery of attractive forces between ions in dense quantum plasmas.

Findings

Clarifies the validity of the attractive force in quantum plasmas

Responds to critiques and defends the original results

Reaffirms the existence of ion-ion attractive interactions

Abstract

We are responding to the comment of Tyshetskiy and Vladimirov [arXiv:1212.4286] on a recently published paper by Shukla and Eliasson [arXiv:1112.5556], regarding the discovery of a novel attractive force on stationary test ion charges of the same sign shielded by degenerate electrons in a dense quantum plasma.