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Philip A Thomas1, William L Barnes1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK.
Abstract:
This note responds to Schwartz and Hutchison's Comment. Differences appear to have arisen not in the experimental results themselves but in their interpretation: more extensive experiments allow one to distinguish between "true positive" and "false positive" results. Potential evidence of non-polaritonic effects in Schwartz and Hutchison's own work is identified. It is hoped that this work will encourage others to produce more systematic investigations of strong coupling.
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