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Photon Antibunching in Resonance Fluorescence

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This lecture discusses the phenomenon of photon antibunching observed in resonance fluorescence, where a driven atom cannot emit two photons at once, leading to g(2)(0) = 0. The lecture also covers the influence of a beamsplitter on Wigner function measurement and the properties of the P-function used to compute expectations of normally ordered functions.

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