Reply to “Comment on ‘Energy and pressure versus volume:  Equations of state motivated by the stabilized jellium model’ ”

In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. B $63,$ 224115 (2001)], we proposed two equations of state based upon microscopic insight into the cohesion of a solid: the stabilized jellium equation of state (SJEOS) and its augmented version (ASJEOS). In this Reply, we address the issues raised by Holzapfel in his Comment on that paper. We show that, according to the number of independent fitting parameters used, our ASJEOS is comparable with Holzapfel's third-order adapted polynomial (AP3) and that the ASJEOS performs slightly better than AP3 for the materials (Al, Li, and Mo) and pressure range $(P\ensuremath{\lesssim}15\mathrm{Mbar})$ discussed in our paper. We compare the advantages and the disadvantages of ASJEOS and AP3, and discuss the behavior of the equations of state as they approach the strong-compression and strong-expansion limits.