Response to Comment [arXiv:1407.6854] on Palmer et al., Nature, 510, 385, 2014

TL;DR

This paper refutes a prior comment disputing the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid transition in a water model, reinforcing the original findings with additional evidence and plans to release supporting code.

Contribution

It provides a categorical rebuttal to previous criticisms, strengthening the evidence for a liquid-liquid transition in a molecular water model.

Findings

Disproves the arguments in the comment against the original study.

Reaffirms the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid transition.

Plans to release code for reproducibility.

Abstract

We respond to a Comment [arXiv:1407.6854 (2014)] on our recent Nature paper [Nature, 510, 385 (2014)]. We categorically disprove the arguments provided in arXiv:1407.6854 (2014) and thereby further substantiate the evidence we presented in our recent study, demonstrating the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid transition in a molecular model of water. We will make our code publicly available shortly along with proper user documentation that is currently under development.