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We develop a quantitative mathematical theory that offers new perspectives on nonlinear harmonic generation in plasmonic structures arising from symmetry breaking. Focusing on second harmonic generation--the most fundamental process and the…

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We uncover a new origin of the planar Hall effect - as an intrinsic property of layer coherent electrons - that exists even in bilayer and trilayer atomically thin limit. It reforms the existing theories requiring three-dimensional orbital…

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The generalized Heitler-London (GHL) theory provides a straightforward way to express the potential energy surface of H_3 in terms of Coulomb and exchange energies which can be calculated either by perturbation theory or using the surface…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanja I. Sachse , Ulrich Kleinekathoefer

We study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned molecules in strong elliptically polarized laser fields numerically and analytically. Our simulations show that the spectra and polarization of HHG depend strongly on the molecular…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 F. J. Sun , C. Chen , W. Y. Li , X. Liu , W. Li , Y. J. Chen

We consider the scalar sector of the most general renormalizable two-Higgs-doublet model at non-zero temperature. We calculate the largest finite temperature corrections to the free-energy density and study thermal evolution of the ground…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 I. P. Ivanov

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) has been measured for the first time in reflection from the nanometer-thick films (6 to 40 nm) of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using 1.51 eV (820 nm) Ti:Sapphire laser photons and revealed a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuri D. Glinka , Sercan Babakiray , Trent A. Johnson , Mikel B. Holcomb , David Lederman

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

We construct several examples of genus-one fibered K3 surfaces without a global section with type $I_{n}$ fibers, by considering double covers of a special class of rational elliptic surfaces lacking a global section, known as Halphen…

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We study the second-harmonic generation in left-handed metamaterials with a quadratic nonlinear response. We demonstrate a novel type of the exact phase matching between the backward propagating wave of the fundamental frequency and the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ilya V. Shadrivov , Alexander A. Zharov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We experimentally explore the fingerprint of the microscopic electron dynamics in second-order harmonic generation (SHG). It is shown that the interbond electron hopping induces a novel source of nonlinear polarization and plays an…

The surface sensitivity and probe depth in the x-ray regime of diamond for second harmonic generation (SHG) was investigated both analytically and computationally with velocity gauge real-time time-dependent density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-22 Daniel Schacher , Tod A. Pascal , Keith V. Lawler , Craig P. Schwartz

Soft membranes are commonly employed in shape-morphing applications, where the material is programmed to achieve a target shape upon activation by an external trigger, and as coating layers that alter the surface characteristics of bulk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-05 Alessandro Lucantonio , Luciano Teresi , Antonio DeSimone

On the basis of the Edward-Kornfeld formulation, we study the effective susceptibility of secondharmonic generation (SHG) in colloidal crystals, which are made of graded metallodielectric nanoparticles with an intrinsic SHG susceptibility…

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We study the high-harmonic generation in the Aubry-Andre-Harper (AAH) model. The modulating phase of the AAH model is used as a control parameter while preserving the chiral symmetry hosting the zero-energy edge states. The harmonic yield…

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Air-to-air heat exchangers are vital for energy recovery and thermal management but often suffer from reduced effectiveness, high pressure losses, and increased pumping power in conventional designs. Advances in additive manufacturing have…

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We construct a scattering theory for harmonic one-forms on Riemann surfaces, obtained from boundary value problems involving systems of curves and the jump problem. We obtain an explicit expression for the scattering matrix in terms of…

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We perform an experimental two-color high-order harmonic generation study in argon with the fundamental of an ytterbium ultrashort pulse laser and its second harmonic. The intensity of the second harmonic and its phase relative to the…

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. While several approaches are available for performing wavefront shaping, the one exploiting geometric…

The generalized theory of Stokes Mueller polarimetry is employed to develop the third-order optical polarimetry framework for third-harmonic generation (THG). The outgoing and incoming radiations are represented by 4-element and 16-element…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-30 Masood Samim , Serguei Krouglov , Virginijus Barzda

We investigate the influence of intense, elliptically polarized driving fields on high-order harmonic spectra from aligned diatomic molecules. We derive a generalized two-center interference condition for elliptically polarized fields,…

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