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Atomic wave packets loaded into a phase-modulated vertical optical-lattice potential exhibit a coherent delocalization dynamics arising from intraband transitions among Wannier-Stark levels. Wannier-Stark intraband transitions are here…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Ivanov , A. Alberti , M. Schioppo , G. Ferrari , M. Artoni , M. L. Chiofalo , G. M. Tino

We present theoretical studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by non-homogeneous fields as resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneity of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in two-dimensional materials offers a compelling route toward compact extreme ultraviolet sources and probing electron dynamics on the attosecond scale. However, achieving precise control over the emission and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhenjiang Zhao , Zhihua Zheng , Zhiyi Xu , Xing Ran , Xiaolong Yao , Fangping Ouyang

High harmonic generation (HHG) from condensed matter phase holds promise to promote future cutting-edge research in the emerging field of attosecond nanoscopy. The key for the progress of the field relies on the capability of the existing…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Hicham Agueny

An analytic description of high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids induced by intense low-frequency pulses is presented within an adiabatic approach, which treats laser-matter interactions nonperturbatively. We derive the analytical…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. V. Flegel , Liang-Wen Pi , M. V. Frolov

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

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids provides a powerful platform to probe ultrafast electron dynamics and interband--intraband coupling. However, disentangling the complex many-body contributions in the HHG spectrum remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-16 Cong Zhao , Xiaozhou Zou

We present theoretical investigations of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the interaction of noble gases with localized surface plasmons. These plasmonic fields are produced when a metal nanoparticle is subject to a…

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…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-28 Yiming Pan , Danni Chen , Xiaoxi Xu , Zhaopin Chen , Huaiqiang Wang

We study the generation of high harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model transparent solid driven by a strong mid-infrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) using a velocity-gauge…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mengxi Wu , Shambhu Ghimire , David A. Reis , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful probe of electron dynamics on attosecond to femtosecond timescales and has been successfully used to detect electronic and structural changes in solid-state quantum materials, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel A. Rehn , Towfiq Ahmed , Jinkyoung Yoo , Rohit Prasankumar , Jian-Xin Zhu

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has typically been explored in transparent dielectrics and semiconductors. Metals have long been dismissed due to their strong reflectivity at infrared wavelengths. Here, we demonstrate HHG from…

Ultrafast all-optical control of light emission is a central goal of extreme nonlinear optics, with implications for compact short-wavelength sources, petahertz optoelectronics, and label-free superresolution microscopy. High-harmonic…

Real-space picture of electron recollision with the parent ion guides our understanding of the highly nonlinear response of atoms and molecules to intense low-frequency laser fields. It is also among several leading contestants for the…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-06 Mrudul M. S. , Adhip Pattanayak , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by simulating the dynamics of a single active electron in periodic potentials. The corresponding time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations (TDSE) are solved numerically by using…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

The electronic ground state of a periodic crystalline solid is usually described in terms of extended Bloch orbitals; localized Wannier functions can alternatively be used. These two representations are connected by families of unitary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicola Marzari , David Vanderbilt

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneities of the local electric field and the confinement of the electron motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , Srdjan S. Acimovic , T. Shaaran , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

We present a study of the possibility to significantly enhance the efficiency of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) using few-cycle optical waveforms obtained by superposing two laser pulses of different color delayed optimally relative…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-11 O. V. Meshkov , M. Yu. Emelin , M. Yu. Ryabikin

We demonstrate that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids dominantly originates from strongly localized surface states through non-perturbative processes. Measurements reveal that HHG from bulk states is suppressed by at least 1-2 orders…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Seres , E. Seres , C. Serrat , T. Schumm

Various interference effects are known to exist in the process of high harmonic generation (HHG) both at the single atom and macroscopic levels. In particular, the quantum path difference between the long and short trajectories of electron…