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High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged in recent years as a rapidly expanding and interdisciplinary field, attracting attention from both the condensed-matter and the atomic, molecular, and optics communities. It has exciting…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Lun Yue , Mette B. Gaarde

Since the discovery of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, much effort has been devoted to understanding its generation mechanism and both interband and intraband transitions are known to be essential. However, intraband…

High-harmonic generation (HHG), an extreme nonlinear effect, introduces an unprecedented paradigm to detect emergent quantum phases and electron dynamics inconceivable in the framework of linear and low-order nonlinear processes. As an…

High-harmonic spectroscopy in solids gives insight into the inner workings of solids, such as reconstructing band structures or probing the topological phase of materials. High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a highly non-linear phenomena and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Asger Weeth , Lars Bojer Madsen

We consider noninteracting electrons coupled to laser fields, and study perturbatively the effects of the lattice potential involving disorder on the harmonic components of the electric current, which are sources of high-order harmonic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-15 Koki Chinzei , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Highly nonlinear optical phenomena can provide access to properties of electronic systems which are otherwise difficult to access through conventional linear optical spectroscopies. In particular, high harmonic generation (HHG) in…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Uchida , V. Pareek , K. Nagai , K. M. Dani , K. Tanaka

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful tool for probing electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics in matter. Traditionally studied in atomic and molecular gases, HHG has recently been extended to condensed matter, enabling…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in crystalline solids have been examined so far on the basis of one-body energy-band structures arising from electron itineracy in a periodic potential. Here, we show emergence of HHG signals which are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Shohei Imai , Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

The long standing issue of separating resonant from non-resonant processes in extreme nonlinear optics is resolved. The theoretical formalism is applied to high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids and reveals a deeper view into the dominant…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-03 A. Thorpe , N. Boroumand , A. M. Parks , E. Goulielmakis , T. Brabec

High-harmonic generation by a laser-driven solid slab is simulated using time-dependent density functional theory. Multiple harmonic plateaus up to very high harmonic orders are observed already at surprisingly low field strengths. The full…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Kenneth K. Hansen , Tobias Deffge , Dieter Bauer

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…

We theoretically investigate the interference effect of high-order harmonics generated from molecules at different alignment angles. It is shown that the interference of the harmonic emissions from molecules aligned at different angles can…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-27 Meiyan Qin , Xiaosong Zhu , Yang Li , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

For the high-order harmonic generation in solids, we find a distinct and clean interference pattern in the high-energy end of the spectrum which can be interpreted as a Michelson interferometer of the Bloch electron. Our results are…

The strong ellipticity dependence of high-harmonic generation in gases enables numerous experimental techniques that are nowadays routinely used, for instance, to create isolated attosecond pulses. Extending such techniques to high-harmonic…

Generation of high-order harmonics in gases enabled to probe the attosecond electron dynamics in atoms and molecules with unprecedented resolution. Extending the techniques developed originally for atomic and molecular gases to solid state…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-04 Mrudul M. S. , Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean , Angel Rubio , Gopal Dixit

High-harmonic generation is typically thought of as a sub-laser-cycle process, with the electron's excursion in the continuum lasting a fraction of the optical cycle. However, it was recently suggested that long-lived Rydberg states can…

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

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is one of the fundamental processes at the heart of attosecond physics. Traditionally viewed as an effective single-particle effect, recent advances have focused on contributions beyond this single-particle…

The propagation-effects reshaping the excitation pulse are known to exhibit a strong influence on the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state media. Previous measurements showed that the mid-infrared pulse dynamics, most importantly…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-22 M. Kolesik

We experimentally observe a new type of quantum-path interference, in two-dimensions (2D-QPI), in high-harmonic generation (HHG) driven by an orthogonally-polarised highly-bichromatic field. This regime is marked by comparable intensities…