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Phys. Rev. E 72, 023402 (2005) [2 pages]

Reply to “Comment on the use of the method of images for calculating electromagnetic responses of interacting spheres”

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J. P. Huang1, K. W. Yu1, G. Q. Gu1,2, M. Karttunen3, and L. Dong1,3
1Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
2College of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
3Biophysics and Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 9203, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

Received 7 June 2005; published 11 August 2005

In this Reply, we use the data offered in the Comment by Markel Phys. Rev. E. 72 023401 (2005)] to investigate the electrorotation and dielectrophoretic spectra of dielectric particles such as biological cells discussed in our two papers [ Phys. Rev. E. 65 021401 (2002); 69 051402 (2004)]. We find that the numerical results predicted by our method and Markel’s method are in good agreement. Therefore, this further shows the validity of our approximation method for dielectric particles and that the Comment by Markel does not affect the significance of the two papers.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.72.023402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.023402
PACS:
82.70.−y, 77.22.Gm, 77.84.Lf
 
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