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In this report, a novel methodology based on the static coherent states approach is introduced with the capability of calculating various strong-field laser-induced nonlinearities in full dimensional single-electron molecular systems; an…
We investigate high-order harmonic generation in inhomogeneous media for reduced dimensionality models. We perform a phase-space analysis, in which we identify specific features caused by the field inhomogeneity. We compute high-order…
We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids driven by laser fields with different ellipticities. The HHG spectra show a two-plateau structure within the energy gap between the valence band and the first conduction band.…
An accurate analytic model describing high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids is derived. Extensive first-principles simulations within a time-dependent density-functional framework corroborate the conclusions of the model. Our results…
We theoretically investigate high-harmonic generation (HHG) in honeycomb-lattice graphene models when subjected to a DC electric field. By integrating the quantum master equation with the Boltzmann equation, we develop a numerical method to…
Strong laser light drives complex quantum electron dynamics in solids, which is captured by the high-harmonic generation (HHG) process. Here we report the observation of laser-dressed Floquet-Bloch states (FBSs) at the edge of the Brillouin…
The semiconductor Bloch equations (SBEs) are routinely used for simulations of strong-field laser-matter interactions in condensed matter. In systems without inversion or time-reversal symmetries, the Berry connections and transition dipole…
We present a theoretical investigation of high-harmonic generation (HHG) from impurity-doped materials using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) approach. We demonstrate the factorization of HHG yields as a product of an…
We consider a quantum mechanical model for the high-order harmonic generation in bulk solids. The bandgap is assumed to be considerably larger than the exciting photon energy. Using dipole approximation, the dynamical equations for…
Applying time-dependent local density approximation (TDLDA), we study the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of ethylene subjected to the one-color ($\omega=2.72$ eV) and the two-color ($\omega_1=2.72$ eV and $\omega_2=5.44$ eV)…
We propose a novel amplification mechanism for high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids by leveraging bandgap engineering with momentum k-gaps. By constructing a simple diatomic lattice featuring balanced, alternating gain and loss…
In frequently studied two-band models for solid-state high-harmonic generation, interband harmonics in principle can range from the minimum to the maximum bandgap. However, it is known that a laser-intensity dependent cutoff exists that may…
We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in model atoms driven by plasmonic-enhanced fields. These fields result from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures by few-cycle laser pulses. We demonstrate that the spatial inhomogeneous…
We propose a novel picture of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids based on the concept of temporally changing band structures. To demonstrate the utility of this picture, we focus on the high-order sideband generation (HSG) caused by…
We present studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) at laser intensities well above saturation. We use driving laser pulses which present a particular electron dynamics in the turn-on stage. Our results predict an increasing on the…
We propose an intuitive method, called time-dependent population imaging (TDPI), to map the dynamical processes of high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids by solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE). It is shown that the…
We theoretically investigate the spectral caustics of high-order harmonics in solids. We analyze the 1-dimension model of solids HHG and find that, apart from the caustics originated from the van Hove singularities in the energy-band…
High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned acetylene molecules interacting with mid infra-red (IR), linearly polarized laser pulses is studied theoretically using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are…
Using real-space view of high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, we develop a physically transparent and gauge-invariant approach for distinguishing intraband and interband HHG mechanisms. Our approach relies on resolving the harmonic…
Based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra obtained from solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for atoms, we established quantitatively that the HHG yield can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave…