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This chapter forms the introduction to the thesis. It motivates the many questions, revisits some of the fundamental ideas in quantum condensed matter and whets the appetite for what is yet to come.
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Unexpected, since the race included LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves! [10].
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Agarwala, A. (2019). Introduction. In: Excursions in Ill-Condensed Quantum Matter. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21511-8_1
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