Comment on: "Comment on "Nonperturbative calculation of Born-Infeld effects on the Schr\"odinger spectrum of the hydrogen atom"" by M. N. Smolyakov

TL;DR

This paper is a public reply to a comment on a previous study about nonperturbative effects of Born-Infeld theory on the hydrogen atom's spectrum, clarifying the authors' position after the comment was not published by Physical Review Letters.

Contribution

The authors publicly share their response to a comment on their earlier work, emphasizing transparency and engagement in scientific discourse.

Findings

Clarification of authors' stance on the comment

Public availability of the authors' reply

Discussion on publication decisions

Abstract

This reply to Dr. Smolyakov's comment [2] on our PRL paper [1] was solicited by PRL on Nov. 17, 2021 and submitted to PRL on Nov. 30, 2021. Regretfully, the editors of PRL decided not to publish Dr. Smolyakov's comment; hence, not our reply to it. However, since Dr. Smolyakov made his comment publicly available at the arXiv.org in June 2022 (of which we learned only on Dec. 26, 2024), we have decided to make our reply to his comment publicly available as well.