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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…

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…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) normally requires a careful adjustment of the driving laser intensity (typically $10^{14} - 10^{15}$ W/cm$^2$) and gas medium parameters to enable good phase matching conditions. In contrast with conventional…

By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the extended Hubbard model on a periodic chain, HHG close to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-07 Can Shao , Hantao Lu , Xiao Zhang , Chao Yu , Takami Tohyama , Ruifeng Lu

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 C. Zagoya , M. Bonner , H. Chomet , E. Slade , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and Angstrom spatial resolution are accessible. The fundamental physical pictures of HHG…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Liang Li , Pengfei Lan , Xiaosong Zhu , Peixiang Lu

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…

A new High Harmonic Generation (HHG) scheme, which doesn't rely on Tunnel-Ionization as the ionization mechanism but rather on Single-Photon Ionization, is theoretically proposed and numerically demonstrated. The scheme uses two driver…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Jonathan Berkheim , Eliyahu Bordo , Eldar Ragonis , Lev Merensky , Avner Fleischer

The solid-state harmonic generation (SSHG) derives from photocurrent coherence. The crystal symmetry, including point-group symmetry and time-reversal symmetry, constrains the amplitude and phase of the photocurrent, thus manipulates the…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chen Qian , Shicheng Jiang , Tong Wu , Hongming Weng , Chao Yu , Ruifeng Lu

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

We develop a numerical scheme to investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in intense laser-matter interactions. Tracing the time evolution of every electronic laser-field-free state, we "observe" the HHG in a time-integrated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Y. J. Chen , J. Liu , Bambi Hu

We calculate high-harmonic generation (HHG) by intense infrared lasers in atoms and molecules with the inclusion of macroscopic propagation of the harmonics in the gas medium. We show that the observed experimental spectra can be accurately…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) results from strong-field laser matter interaction and it is one of the main processes that are used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular targets with…

Optical coherence encodes information about the correlations of the electromagnetic field. In combination with quantum optical approaches, it allows for the study of the correlations between photons. Since the pioneering papers of Glauber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Philipp Stammer , Javier Rivera-Dean , Maciej Lewenstein

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a strong driving field interacts with a material, resulting in the frequency up-conversion of the driver into its high-order harmonics. This process is highly sensitive to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 J. Rivera-Dean , P. Stammer , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in the two topological phases of a finite, one-dimensional, periodic structure is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) approach. For harmonic photon energies…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-26 Dieter Bauer , Kenneth K. Hansen

Light sources based on high-harmonic generation (HHG) underpin ultrafast spectroscopy experiments across a large range of photon energies, spanning from the extreme-ultraviolet to the soft x-ray. To this day their design, implementation and…

We investigate a two-level atom in the field of a strong laser pulse. The resulting time-dependent polarization is the source of a radiation the frequency components of which are essentially harmonics of the driving field's carrier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Ákos Gombkötő , Attila Czirják , Sándor Varró , Péter Földi

To clarify the microscopic origin of chirality-induced optical effect, we develop an analytical method that extracts the chiral part of the Hamiltonian of molecular electronic states. We demonstrate this method in a model chiral molecule…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Akihito Kato , Nobuhiko Yokoshi

We consider the process of high-order harmonics generation (HHG) in the xenon atom enhanced by the inter-shell correlation between the valence 5p and inner 4d shells. We derive the HHG spectrum from a numerical solution of the one-electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alexander W. Bray , David Freeman , Sebastian Eckart , Anatoli S. Kheifets