Reply to cond-mat/0601101

TL;DR

This paper critically examines a previous claim about a self-heating free IVC, providing evidence that self-heating occurs and supporting the original findings on intrinsic tunneling spectroscopy's extrinsic causes.

Contribution

The paper refutes a claim of a self-heating free IVC and reinforces the original conclusions about extrinsic causes in intrinsic tunneling spectroscopy.

Findings

The IVC is not free of self-heating.

Data supports extrinsic causes of observed phenomena.

Self-heating is indirectly acknowledged in prior claims.

Abstract

The author of the comment promotes a brush-like IVC, which is claimed to be free of self-heating. I will show that this claim lacks substantiation as the IVC is definitely not free from heating and that the self-heating cause of IVC-2 is indirectly admitted by the author of the comment. I will further show that the data selected for this comment in fact provide additional experimental evidence in favour of the major conclusions by the commented article in particular of the extrinsic cause of the key findings by intrinsic tunnelling spectroscopy.