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Mechanisms of high-harmonic generation from crystals are described by treating the electric field of a laser as a quasi-static strong field. Under the quasi-static electric field, electrons in periodic potentials form dressed states, known…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Higuchi , Mark I. Stockman , Peter Hommelhoff

Solid-state high-harmonic spectroscopy allows the study of strongly driven ultrafast electron dynamics. Microscopically, high harmonics are generated by strong-laser-field acceleration of electron-hole pairs through the lattice. At finite…

High harmonic generation (HHG) has become a multipurpose source of coherent XUV radiation used in various applications. One of the notable aspects of HHG is its wide spectrum consisting of many harmonic orders. This might represent a…

High-harmonic generation in solids allows probing and controlling electron dynamics in crystals on few femtosecond timescales, paving the way to lightwave electronics. In the spatial domain, recent advances in the real-space interpretation…

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a powerful spectroscopic method for resolving ultrafast electron dynamics and band structure properties across a wide range of materials. However, quantitative HHG studies require…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. Mandal , P. Kumar , Z. Pi , H. Y. Kim , M. Zhan , E. Goulielmakis

We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic…

We find the atomic response to the intense femtosecond laser pulse via solving numerically the three-dimensional non-stationary Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) for a model atom and calculating its dipole moment. For weak quasi-static fields,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 S. A. Bondarenko , V. V. Strelkov

Two different induced effects of a laser falling edge on high-order harmonic generation are resolved by solving numerically full-dimensional electronic time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 M. Vafaee , H. Ahmadi , A. Maghari

Strong field ionization is difficult to treat theoretically due to the simultaneous need to treat bound state dynamics accurately and continuum dynamics efficiently. We address this problem by decomposing the time dependent Schroedinger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Zachary B. Walters , Jan-Michael Rost

We explore with ab-initio theory high harmonic generation (HHG) from a series of gas-phase fullerenes (from C$_{20}$ to C$_{60}$, including isomers) under varying laser conditions (different ellipticities, angular orientations, intensities…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-27 Km Akanksha Dubey , Ofer Neufeld

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al, Science…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Hideki Hirori , Yasuyuki Sanari , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Angel Rubio

Nonlinear light-matter interaction and, in particular, high-harmonic generation (HHG) are fundamentally interesting and frequently discussed as versatile probes of quantum materials with potential for optical information processing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jessica O. de Almeida , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Mathias S. Scheurer

We studied the high-harmonic generation by the interaction of sub-cycle laser pulses with the He atom. The sub-cycle pulses are modeled using the complex source vector beam model, which is an exact solution to Maxwell's equations and…

Reconstructing effective Hamiltonians of condensed matter systems directly from experimental data is challenging because of the intricate relationship between Hamiltonian parameters and observables. Here, we reconstruct an effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-12 Qile Wu , Seamus D. O Hara , Joseph B. Costello , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Mark S. Sherwin

We discuss the Bloch-state solutions of the stationary Gross-Pitaevskii equation and of the Bogoliubov equations for a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a one-dimensional optical lattice. The results for the compressibility,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Meret Kraemer , Chiara Menotti , Lev Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

A general {\it ab-initio} and non-perturbative method to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) for the interaction of a strong attosecond laser pulse with a general atom, i.e., beyond the models of quasi-one-electron or…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 X. Guan , O. Zatsarinny , K. Bartschat , B. I. Schneider , J. Feist , C. J. Noble

Recently, high-order sideband polarimetry has been established as an experimental method that links the polarization of sidebands to an interference of Bloch wavefunctions. However, the robustness of sideband polarizations to increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Joseph B. Costello , Seamus D. O'Hara , Qile Wu , Moonsuk Jank , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Mark S. Sherwin

We theoretically investigate the effects of the excitation frequency on the plateau of high-order terahertz sideband generation (HSG) in semiconductors driven by intense terahertz (THz) fields. We find that the plateau of the sideband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Xiao-Tao Xie , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

State-of-the-art experiments employ strong ultrafast optical fields to study the nonlinear response of electrons in solids on an attosecond time-scale. Notably, a recent experiment retrieved a 3rd order nonlinear susceptibility by comparing…

High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hamlet K. Avetissian , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Andreas Knorr