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Cooperative Interactions in Lattices of Atomic Dipoles

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Understanding and manipulating the interaction of light with matter is one of the principal goals of modern science.

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    Photon exchange with the EM field modes also produces an energy shift, the Lamb shift.

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    By lattice we will always mean a periodic array, rather than simply the atoms being trapped in space.

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