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Introduction

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Understanding the interaction between light and matter is fundamental to many processes in physics. This chapter is a general background to this thesis, and serves to introduce some of the key elements of this work.

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Keaveney, J. (2014). Introduction. In: Collective Atom–Light Interactions in Dense Atomic Vapours. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07100-8_1

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