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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 theoretically investigate the spectral caustics of high-order harmonics in solids. We analyze the 1-dimension model of solids HHG and find that, apart from the caustics originated from the van Hove singularities in the energy-band…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-20 Jiaxiang Chen , Qinzhi Xia , Libin Fu

We perform a detailed analysis of high-order harmonic generation in diatomic molecules within the strong-field approximation, with emphasis on quantum-interference effects. Specifically, we investigate how the different types of electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned acetylene molecules interacting with mid infra-red (IR), linearly polarized laser pulses is studied theoretically using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Peter Mulholland , Daniel Dundas

The extreme nonlinear optical process of high-harmonic generation (HHG) makes it possible to map the properties of a laser beam onto a radiating electron wavefunction, and in turn, onto the emitted x-ray light. Bright HHG beams typically…

A quantum optical model for the high-order harmonic generation is presented, in which both the exciting field and the high harmonic modes are quantized, while the target material appears via parameters only. As a consequence, the model is…

We experimentally observe longer than long trajectory influence in high order harmonic generation (HHG) by varying the peak intensity of the driving laser field through either direct attenuation, or by chirping the laser pulse. Using a…

Strong-field high-harmonic generation (HHG) is conventionally described semiclassically, with the driving laser treated as a classical field. This approximation becomes insufficient in nanoscale interaction geometries, where extreme spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Tsendsuren Khurelbaatar , R. T. Sang , Igor Litvinyuk

The creation of light-matter hybrid states, polaritons, in a cavity offers new intriguing opportunities to manipulate the electronic structure and electron dynamics of atoms and molecules. Here, we investigate the effect of electronic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Paul A. Albrecht , Eric W. Fischer , Tillmann Klamroth , Peter Saalfrank

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 develop a general theory of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state systems, based on a weak-correlation expansion of photonic and matter degrees of freedom. Unlike standard HHG theories, which treat light-matter dynamics through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Denis Ilin , Alexander S. Solntsev , Ivan Iorsh

High-order harmonic generation is investigated for H$_2^+$ and D$_2^+$ with and without Born-Oppenheimer approximation by numerical solution of full dimensional electronic time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation under 4-cycle intense laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Hamed Ahmadi , Ali Maghari , Hassan Sabzyan , Ali Reza Niknam , Mohsen Vafaee

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has entered a new phase of intensive research, with envisioned band-structure mapping on an ultrashort time scale. This partly benefits from a flurry of new HHG materials discovered, but so far…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 G. P. Zhang , M. S. Si , M. Murakami , Y. H. Bai , Thomas F. George

We explore the significance of laser-induced correlation effects for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a linear chain model of a generic band gap material for both single-IR-pulse and VUV-pump--IR-probe HHG schemes. We examine various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Simon Vendelbo Bylling Jensen , Lars Bojer Madsen

Halo/Cluster Effective Field Theory describes halo/cluster nuclei in an expansion in the small ratio of the size of the core(s) to the size of the system. Even in the point-particle limit, neutron halo nuclei have a finite charge radius,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 E. Ryberg , C. Forssén , D. R. Phillips , U. van Kolck

In frequently studied two-band models for solid-state high-harmonic generation, interband harmonics in principle can range from the minimum to the maximum bandgap. However, it is known that a laser-intensity dependent cutoff exists that may…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Lina Bielke , Hannah Jürß , Vincent Burgtorf , Dieter Bauer

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of high-order harmonic generation in H$_2^+$ molecular ions within a quantum optical framework. Our study focuses on characterizing various quantum optical and quantum information…

The order of high harmonics emitted by an atom in an intense laser field is limited by the so-called cutoff frequency. Solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, we show that this frequency can be increased considerably by a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Jan-Michael Rost

Recent developments on intense laser sources is opening a new field of optical sciences. An intense coherent light beam strongly interacting with the matter causes a coherent motion of a particle, forming a strongly dressed excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Hidemasa Yamane , Satoshi Tanaka , Michelangelo Domina , Roberto Passante , Tomio Petrosky

Theoretical investigation is conducted of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in silicon thin films to elucidate the effect of light propagation in reflected and transmitted waves. The first-principles simulations are performed of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-23 Shunsuke Yamada , Tomohito Otobe , David Freeman , Anatoli Kheifets , Kazuhiro Yabana