Reply to Comment on "Dislocation Structure and Mobility in hcp $^4$He"

TL;DR

This paper is a reply to a comment criticizing previous work on dislocation behavior in helium-4, clarifying the original findings and addressing concerns about the interpretation and numerical control of the results.

Contribution

It provides a direct response to critiques, reaffirming the original conclusions about dislocation structure and superfluidity in helium-4.

Findings

Reaffirms the role of basal-plane dislocations in mass-flow experiments

Clarifies the interpretation of dislocation dissociation and superfluidity

Addresses numerical control concerns raised in the comment

Abstract

In their Comment [arXiv:1609.06174 (2016)], Kuklov and Svistunov argue that (a) our discussion of the role of basal-plane dislocations in mass-flow junction experiments in our recent Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045301 (2016)) is misleading, (b) our results do not provide new insight into dislocation dissociation nor superfluidity of dislocation cores and (c) our calculations lack control of the numerical data. Here we offer our Reply.