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Dan Walls is rightly famous for his part in many of the outstanding developments in quantum optics in the last 30 years. Two of these are most relevant to this paper. The first is the prediction of nonclassical properties of the fluorescence of a two-level atom, such as antibunching [1] and squeezing [2]. Both of these predictions have now been verified experimentally [3],[4]. The second is the investigation of fundamental issues such as complementarity and the uncertainty principle [5],[6]. This latter area is one which has generated a lively theoretical discussion [7], and, more importantly, suggested new experiments [8]. It was also an area in which I had the honour of working with Dan [9], and of gaining the benefit of his instinct for picking a fruitful line of investigation.
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Wiseman, H. (2001). Complementarity in Spontaneous Emission: Quantum Jumps, Staggers and Slides. In: Carmichael, H.J., Glauber, R.J., Scully, M.O. (eds) Directions in Quantum Optics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 561. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40894-0_30
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