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We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic…

High-harmonic generation in solids allows probing and controlling electron dynamics in crystals on few femtosecond timescales, paving the way to lightwave electronics. In the spatial domain, recent advances in the real-space interpretation…

We study numerically the Bloch electron wave-packet dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a quasi-classical model in the \emph{k} space combined with the energy band structure to understand the…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-05 Tao-Yuan Du , Xue-Bin Bian

Using real-space view of high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, we develop a physically transparent and gauge-invariant approach for distinguishing intraband and interband HHG mechanisms. Our approach relies on resolving the harmonic…

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

We demonstrate that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids dominantly originates from strongly localized surface states through non-perturbative processes. Measurements reveal that HHG from bulk states is suppressed by at least 1-2 orders…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Seres , E. Seres , C. Serrat , T. Schumm

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

We propose a novel picture of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids based on the concept of temporally changing band structures. To demonstrate the utility of this picture, we focus on the high-order sideband generation (HSG) caused by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-14 Tomohiro Tamaya , Takeo Kato

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…

Solids in an intense laser field show high-harmonic generation (HHG), which can provide information on carrier dynamics and band structures in weakly correlated systems. In strongly correlated systems, a laser field can induce a transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-04 Ryohei Ikeda , Yuta Murakami , Daiki Sakai , Tatsuya Miyamoto , Toshimitsu Ito , Hiroshi Okamoto

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a versatile platform for exploring ultrafast and quantum-coherent phenomena in condensed matter. Recent advances reveal Berry-phase and topological effects in harmonic emission,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Marcelo F. Ciappina

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has recently emerged as a powerful all-optical approach for probing material properties and ultrafast electron dynamics in quantum systems. It has been widely applied for studying two-dimensional and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Eyal Uzner , Ofer Neufeld

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids driven by laser fields with different ellipticities. The HHG spectra show a two-plateau structure within the energy gap between the valence band and the first conduction band.…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-01 Liang Li , Pengfei Lan , Xiaosong Zhu , Tengfei Huang , 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…

High-harmonic generation by a highly non-linear interaction of infrared laser fields with matter allows for the generation of attosecond pulses in the XUV spectral regime. This process, well established for atoms, has been recently extended…

We theoretically investigate correlated electron dynamics in high-harmonic generation (HHG), using all-electron \emph{ab initio} simulations for three-dimensional real alkali-metal atoms. The resulting harmonic spectra exhibit a plateau…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Yang Li , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

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 study high order harmonics generation (HHG) in crystalline silicon and diamond subjected to near and mid-infrared laser pulses. We employ time-dependent density functional theory and solve the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-31 David Freeman , Shunsuke Yamada , Atsushi Yamada , Kazuhiro Yabana , Anatoli Kheifets

We present studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) at laser intensities well above saturation. We use driving laser pulses which present a particular electron dynamics in the turn-on stage. Our results predict an increasing on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. A. Pérez-Hernández , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein , A. Zaïr , L. Roso

Mechanisms of high-harmonic generation from crystals are described by treating the electric field of a laser as a quasi-static strong field. Under the quasi-static electric field, electrons in periodic potentials form dressed states, known…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takuya Higuchi , Mark I. Stockman , Peter Hommelhoff