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The generation and control of the properties of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum is fundamental to extend our understanding on the light-matter interaction process. In this letter, we investigate the use of anomalous and…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-11 B. Kumar Das , M. Ciappina , W. Gao , C. Granados

We present a generic approach for treating the effect of nuclear motion in the high-order harmonic generation from polyatomic molecules. Our procedure relies on a separation of nuclear and electron dynamics where we account for the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 C. B. Madsen , M. Abu-samha , L. B. Madsen

The generation of harmonics by atoms interacting with two circularly polarized and frequency related laser fields is addressed through ab initio numerical simulations. A detailed charaterization of a few specific harmonics is given. In…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Ceccherini , N. Davini , D. Bauer , F. Cornolti

We study high-order harmonic generation in aligned molecules close to the ionization threshold. Two distinct contributions to the harmonic signal are observed, which show very different responses to molecular alignment and ellipticity of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 H. Soifer , P. Botheron , D. Shafir , A. Diner , O. Raz , B. D. Bruner , Y. Mairesse , B. Pons , N. Dudovich

The generation of high harmonics in laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomics (H2+, N2 and O2) compared to that in atomic counterparts (of nearly identical binding energy) is studied within the velocity gauge version of conventional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir I. Usachenko , Pavel E. Pyak , Shih-I Chu

High-harmonic generation is one of the most extreme nonlinear-optical processes observed to date. By focusing an intense laser pulse into a gas, the light-atom interaction that occurs during the process of ionising the atoms results in the…

High-harmonic generation is a light up-conversion process occurring in a strong laser field, leading to coherent bursts of extreme ultrashort broadband radiation [1]. As a new perspective, we propose that ultrafast strong-field electronic…

Electron quantum path interferences in strongly laser-driven aligned molecules and their dependence on the molecular alignment is an essential open problem in strong-field molecular physics. Here, we demonstrate an approach which provides…

The use of Bohmian mechanics as a practical tool for modeling non-relativistic quantum phenomena of matter provides clear evidence of its success, not only as a way to interpret the foundations of quantum mechanics, but also as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Juan José Seoane , Abdelilah Benali , Xavier Oriols

The differential cross section of high-energy electroproduction in the electric field of heavy atoms is derived. The result is obtained with the exact account of the atomic field by means of the quasiclassical approximation to the wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 P. A. Krachkov , A. I. Milstein

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of…

We theoretically investigate the mechanism of enhanced ionization in two-electron molecules by analyzing Bohmian trajectories for a one-dimensional H2 in an intense laser field. We identify both types of ionizing trajectories corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ryohto Sawada , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

In this work the extreme nonlinear optical response of a giant fullerene molecule C$_{240}$ in strong laser field is studied. The investigation of high-order harmonic generation in such quantum nanostructure is presented modeling the…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-15 H. K. Avetissian , S. Sukiasyan , T. M. Markosyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Generation of odd harmonics by a super strong focused laser beam in vacuum is considered. The process occurs due to the plural light-by-light scattering effect. In the leading order of perturbation theory, generation of $(2k+1)$th harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny

Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schr\"odinger's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Berndl , M. Daumer , D. Dürr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

We perform a Bohmian-trajectory analysis of high-order harmonic generation (HHG), focusing on the fact that typical HHG spectra are best reproduced by the Bohmian trajectory starting at the innermost part of the core [Phys. Rev. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 J. Wu , B. B. Augstein , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

High-harmonic generation (HHG), an extreme nonlinear effect, introduces an unprecedented paradigm to detect emergent quantum phases and electron dynamics inconceivable in the framework of linear and low-order nonlinear processes. As an…

In our earlier work on harmonic generation with complex light [Nature Communications 15, 6878 (2024)], we demonstrated how the harmonic spectrum of a complex laser beam in a nonlinear medium can be obtained through the judicious application…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-17 Raoul Trines , Holger Schmitz , Martin King , Paul McKenna , Robert Bingham

The generation of high-order harmonics in bulk solids subjected to intense ultrashort laser pulses has opened up new avenues for research in extreme nonlinear optics and light-matter interaction on sub-cycle timescales. Despite significant…

We investigate the effect of dynamic electron correlation on high-harmonic generation in helium atoms using intense visible light (\lambda=390nm). Two complementary approaches are used which account for correlation in an approximate manner:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 G. A. McKenna , R. Nepstad , J. F. McCann , D. Dundas