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-> Re: BN13654
-> Elastic properties of hidden order in URu 2Si 2 are reproduced by a
-> staggered nematic
-> by Jaron Kent-Dobias, Michael Matty, and B. J. Ramshaw
->
-> Dear Jaron Kent-Dobias,
->
-> The above manuscript has been reviewed by two of our referees.
-> Comments from the reports appear below.
->
-> These comments suggest that the present manuscript is not suitable for
-> publication in the Physical Review.
->
-> Yours sincerely,
->
-> Sarma Kancharla
-> Associate Editor
-> Physical Review B
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> Report of the First Referee -- BN13654/Kent-Dobias
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> look plausible as the disagreement does not appear to develop slowly
> as T decreases, but appears immediately below TN, where eta is small.
-The disagreement between the theory at low temperature is resolved by the
-addition of an additional interaction in the mean-field free energy of the form
-ε²η², now shown in Fig. 2 as a thin black line.
+The disagreement between the theory at low temperature is largely resolved by
+the addition of an additional interaction in the mean-field free energy of the
+form ε²η². In a new appendix, we have worked through the mean field modulus
+implied with this new interaction and a fit is now shown in Fig. 2 as a thin
+black line.
> Is it not clear how discriminatory is the agreement above TN in 2a, 2b
> and 2c. Are calculation results robust over a wide range of fitting
@@ -133,10 +102,13 @@ phase, since their contribution to the response function is zero above T_c.
> The authors do not provide any resolution on that point which is the
> most relevant in this problem.
-The articles below provide experimental evidence for the formation of
-superlattice structure along the c-axis at ambient pressure.
+The articles below, also cited in our work, all provide experimental evidence
+for the formation of superlattice structure along the c-axis at ambient
+pressure.
-[I pulled these from our citation on the estimate for q_*. Do they actually provide the evidence we need?]
+[I pulled these from our citation on the estimate for q_*. Do they actually
+provide the evidence we need? Can someone who knows more about these techniques
+elaborate?]
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.127002
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.43.12809