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High harmonic generation (HHG) from crystals in strong laser fields has been understood by the band theory of solid, which is based on the periodic boundary condition (PBC) of translational invariant. For systems having PBC of rotational…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Yigeng Peng , Tong Wu , Guanglu Yuan , Lihan Chi , Chao Yu , Ruifeng Lu

High-order harmonic generation with bicircular fields - the combination of counter-rotating circularly polarized pulses at different frequencies - results in a series of short-wavelength XUV harmonics with alternating circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 Emilio Pisanty , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán

The sub-cycle dynamics of electrons driven by strong laser fields is central to the emerging field of attosecond science. We demonstrate how the dynamics can be probed through high-order harmonic generation, where different trajectories…

We investigate high-order harmonic generation in a solid, modeled as a multi-level system dressed by a strong infrared laser field. We show that the cutoff energies and the relative strengths of the multiple plateaus that emerge in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Mengxi Wu , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

We theoretically investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in Rydberg atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous laser fields, induced, for instance, by plasmonic enhancement. It is well known that the laser intensity should to exceed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Y. Tikman , I. Yavuz , M. F. Ciappina , A. Chacon , Z. Altun , M. Lewenstein

We study numerically the Bloch electron wavepacket dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a new perspective in the coordinate space combined with the motion of the Bloch electron wavepackets…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Xiao-Huan Huang , Xue-Bin Bian

We report a detailed study of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in helium. When comparing predictions from a single-active-electron model with those from all-electron simulations, such as ATTOMESA and R-matrix with time-dependence, which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 A. T. Bondy , S. Saha , J. C. del Valle , A. Harth , N. Douguet , K. R. Hamilton , K. Bartschat

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in doped semiconductors. The HHG is simulated with the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE). The results show that the high-order harmonics in the second…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Huang , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Xi Liu , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

High-harmonic generation (HHG) of a two-level-system driven by an intense monochromatic phase-locked laser is studied in terms of complex spectral analysis with the Floquet method. In contrast to the phenomenological approaches, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hidemasa Yamane , Ken-ichi Noba , Tomio Petrosky , Satoshi Tanaka

Competition and cooperation among orders is at the heart of many-body physics in strongly correlated materials and leads to their rich physical properties. It is crucial to investigate what impact many-body physics has on extreme nonlinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-06 K. Uchida , G. Mattoni , S. Yonezawa , F. Nakamura , Y. Maeno , K. Tanaka

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids could enable attosecond and ultraviolet light sources with high compactness, great controllability and rich functions. However, the HHG process is accompanied by a quite large wavevector mismatch…

Quantum-optical descriptions of strong-field processes have attracted significant attention in recent years. Typically, the theoretical modeling has been conducted in the Schr\"odinger picture, where results are only obtainable under…

High-harmonic generation in solids has emerged as a powerful probe of ultrafast electron dynamics and lattice motion, and recent theoretical work has suggested that thermally driven lattice fluctuations can act as an effective source of…

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

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a striking phenomenon, which reflects the ultrafast dynamics of electrons. Recently, it has been demonstrated that HHG can be used to reconstruct not only the energy band structure but also the geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Atsushi Ono , Shun Okumura , Shohei Imai , Yutaka Akagi

We present a quantum optical generalization of the quantum-matter Lewenstein model of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in gases that contains two channels corresponding to the inter- and intraband HHG in solids. Both channels can be presented…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Adam Thorpe , Neda Boroumand , Graeme Bart , Lu Wang , Giulio Vampa , Thomas Brabec

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear process where intense pulses of light drive matter to emit high harmonics of the driving frequency, reaching the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray spectral ranges. So far, the HHG…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with zero band gap exhibit remarkable electronic properties with wide tunability. High harmonic generation (HHG) in such materials offers unique platforms to develop novel optoelectronic devices at nanoscale,…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-22 Rui Qin , Zi-Yu Chen

The dependence of high-harmonic generation (HHG) on laser ellipticity is investigated using a modified ZnO model. In the driving of relatively weak field, we reproduce qualitatively the ellipticity dependence as observed in the HHG…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Xiao Zhang , Jinbin Li , Zongsheng Zhou , Shengjun Yue , Hongchuan Du , Libin Fu , Hong-Gang Luo

The recent observation of high-harmonic generation from solids creates a new possibility for engineering fundamental strong-field processes by patterning the solid target with subwavelength nanostructures. All-dielectric metasurfaces…