Recent discussions of the thermodynamics of the electromagnetic field interacting with two-level atoms demonstrate the existence of a phase transition. It is argued however that this only holds for field theories that do not satisfy the principle of gauge invariance.
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R. Guy Woolley (1976) studied this question.
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