Reply to "Comment on "Effects of Point Defects on the Phase Diagram of Vortex States in High-Tc Superconductors in the B//c Axis""

TL;DR

This paper responds to a comment challenging previous findings on vortex phases in high-temperature superconductors, clarifying that the critique's data do not invalidate the original results and are consistent with them.

Contribution

The authors defend their original conclusions by showing that the critique's numerical data do not sufficiently challenge their vortex phase analysis.

Findings

Critique's scaling argument is not sufficiently justified.

Numerical data from the critique are consistent with original results.

Original vortex phase conclusions remain valid.

Abstract

We reply to a recent Comment on our previous article [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5140 (2001)] by Olsson and Teitel [cond-mat/0404473]. We point out that their scaling argument to question the possible vortex slush phase in the frustrated XY model with point defects cannot be sufficiently justified by the provided numerical data, and that their data are indeed consistent with our previous article.