Reply to “Comment on ‘Temperature inversion in long-range interacting systems’ ”

We present evidence that the mechanism proposed in Teles et al. [Phys. Rev. E 92, 020101 (2015)], referred to as the TGDC mechanism, does apply to a model with repulsive mean-field interactions where it produces temperature inversion in a state whose inhomogeneity is due to an external field. Such evidence contradicts the core statement of the Comment. We also discuss a related issue, concerning the possible application of the TGDC mechanism to the solar corona.

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AHMF: temperature profile $T\left(\vartheta \right)$ (blue solid line) and density profile $n\left(\vartheta \right)$ (red dashed line), measured in the QSS at $t={10}^4$.