  Previously, using an incompressible von K\'arm\'an-Howarth formalism, the
behavior of cross-scale energy transfer in magnetic reconnection and turbulence
was found to be essentially identical to each other, independent of an external
magnetic (guide) field, in the inertial and energy-containing ranges (Adhikari
et al., Phys. Plasmas 30, 082904, 2023). However, this description did not
account for the energy transfer in the dissipation range for kinetic plasmas.
In this letter, we adopt a scale-filtering approach to investigate this
previously unaccounted-for energy transfer channel in reconnection. Using
kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of antiparallel and component
reconnection, we show that the pressure-strain (PS) interaction becomes
important at scales smaller than the ion inertial length, where the nonlinear
energy transfer term drops off. Also, the presence of a guide field makes a
significant difference in the morphology of the scale-filtered energy transfer.
These results are consistent with kinetic turbulence simulations, suggesting
that the pressure strain interaction is the dominant energy transfer channel
between electron scales and ion scales.
