D. F. Walls

23.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
269 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

D. F. Walls is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. F. Walls has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 250 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 156 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 32 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in D. F. Walls's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (155 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (126 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (94 papers). D. F. Walls is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (155 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (126 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (94 papers). D. F. Walls collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Australia. D. F. Walls's co-authors include G. J. Milburn, M. J. Collett, P. D. Drummond, H. J. Carmichael, M. D. Reid, P. Zoller, K. J. McNeil, E. M. Wright, M. D. Levenson and J. F. Corney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

D. F. Walls

266 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

4 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Quantum Optics

1994 1.7k citations D. F. Walls, G. J. Milburn profile →
Squeezed states of light

1983 1.4k citations D. F. Walls profile →
Quantum dynamics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential

1997 835 citations G. J. Milburn, D. F. Walls et al. Physical Review A profile →
Broad-Band Parametric Deamplification of Quantum Noise in an Optical Fiber

1986 491 citations R. M. Shelby, M. D. Levenson et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. F. Walls New Zealand	64	16.6k	10.7k	2.1k	1.9k	573	269	17.5k
P. L. Knight United Kingdom	65	17.2k 1.0×	13.6k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	282 0.5×	219	19.1k
Pierre Meystre United States	55	12.8k 0.8×	5.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	3.3k 1.8×	433 0.8×	316	13.7k
G. J. Milburn Australia	68	22.6k 1.4×	18.5k 1.7×	2.8k 1.3×	4.4k 2.4×	407 0.7×	311	25.5k
H. J. Carmichael United States	49	10.6k 0.6×	7.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	327 0.6×	159	11.2k
G. S. Agarwal United States	63	13.8k 0.8×	7.9k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.5×	266 0.5×	465	15.6k
S. Haroche France	70	21.7k 1.3×	14.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.7×	130 0.2×	204	22.9k
Carlton M. Caves United States	55	15.2k 0.9×	12.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	100 0.2×	137	17.3k
Artur Ekert United Kingdom	47	18.5k 1.1×	19.0k 1.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	139 0.2×	110	21.5k
Asher Peres Israel	47	20.2k 1.2×	18.8k 1.8×	3.3k 1.6×	881 0.5×	222 0.4×	212	23.4k
Raymond Laflamme Canada	50	12.1k 0.7×	13.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.2×	129 0.2×	179	17.4k

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Steel, M. J., M. K. Olsen, L. I. Plimak, et al.. (1998). Dynamical quantum noise in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A. 58(6). 4824–4835. 304 indexed citations

Jack, Michael W., M. J. Collett, & D. F. Walls. (1996). Asymmetrically pumped nondegenerate second-harmonic generation inside a cavity. Physical Review A. 53(3). 1801–1811. 14 indexed citations

Tan, Sze M. & D. F. Walls. (1994). Quantum effects in atomic reflection. Journal de Physique II. 4(11). 1897–1912. 2 indexed citations

Collett, M. J., et al.. (1992). Quantum noise properties and power requirements of optical transmission line taps. 4(1). 19–30. 3 indexed citations

Storey, Pippa, M. J. Collett, & D. F. Walls. (1992). Measurement-induced diffraction and interference of atoms. Physical Review Letters. 68(4). 472–475. 183 indexed citations

Zhang, Weiping & D. F. Walls. (1990). Sub shot-noise intensity fluctuations in a four-wave mixing oscillator. Optics Communications. 79(6). 497–508. 5 indexed citations

Sargent, Murray, et al.. (1988). Effects of a squeezed vacuum on probe absorption spectra. Optics Communications. 67(5). 373–377. 34 indexed citations

Savage, C. M. & D. F. Walls. (1987). Squeezing by parametric oscillation and intracavity four-wave mixing. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 4(10). 1514–1514. 53 indexed citations

Glauber, Roy J., Fritz Haake, L. M. Narducci, & D. F. Walls. (1986). Coherence, cooperation and fluctuations : proceedings of the symposium on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of professor Roy J. Glauber, Harvard University, October 19, 1985. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Zoller, P., M. A. M. Marte, & D. F. Walls. (1986). Quantum jumps in atomic systems. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. THJ6–THJ6. 3 indexed citations

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Shelby, R. M., M. D. Levenson, D. F. Walls, Alain Aspect, & G. J. Milburn. (1986). Generation of squeezed states of light with a fiber-optic ring interferometer. Physical review. A, General physics. 33(6). 4008–4025. 43 indexed citations

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Milburn, G. J. & D. F. Walls. (1983). Quantum solutions of the damped harmonic oscillator. American Journal of Physics. 51(12). 1134–1136. 26 indexed citations

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Walls, D. F., C. V. Kunasz, P. D. Drummond, & P. Zoller. (1981). Bifurcations and multistability in two-photon processes. Physical review. A, General physics. 24(1). 627–630. 18 indexed citations

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Walls, D. F., et al.. (1980). Laser physics : proceedings of the Second New Zealand Summer School in Laser Physics. Academic Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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Hassan, Saad S. M., P. D. Drummond, & D. F. Walls. (1978). Dispersive optical bistability in a ring cavity. Optics Communications. 27(3). 480–484. 97 indexed citations

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Harvey, J. D., D. F. Walls, & M.W. Woolford. (1976). Electrophoretic investigations by laser light scattering. Optics Communications. 18(3). 367–370. 7 indexed citations

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Carmichael, H. J. & D. F. Walls. (1975). A comment on the quantum treatment of spontaneous emission from a strongly driven two-level atom. Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics. 8(6). L77–L81. 66 indexed citations

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Walls, D. F.. (1971). Quantum theory of the raman effect. Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei. 244(2). 117–128. 16 indexed citations

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Walls, D. F. & Richard Barakat. (1970). Quantum-Mechanical Amplification and Frequency Conversion with a Trilinear Hamiltonian. Physical review. A, General physics. 1(2). 446–453. 166 indexed citations

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Tucker, J. R. & D. F. Walls. (1969). Quantum Theory of the Traveling-Wave Frequency Converter. Physical Review. 178(5). 2036–2043. 82 indexed citations

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