Reply to “Comment on ‘Observation of matter wave beat phenomena in the macrodomain for electrons moving along a magnetic field’ ”

The so-designated “complete classical explanation” by Unnikrishnan in the preceding Comment, of the macroscopic wave beats reported by us recently, is based on an assumed physical mechanism that has no experimentally established basis. Through this assumed physical process and the focusing properties of an electron beam in a magnetic field, he produces what are essentially “particle beats” as against the “wave beats” observed by us. Even assuming that such a physical process does exist, the consequences of his mechanism are shown here to be in serious contradiction with our experimental observations, thereby invalidating the claim that his model explains, in purely classical terms, our observations exhibiting the existence of macroscopic matter wave beats in the charged particle motion along a magnetic field.