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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

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…

The harmonic generation has always been of fundamental interest in studying the nonlinear nature of any physical system. In the present study, Particle - In - Cell (PIC) simulations have been carried out to explore the harmonic generation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Trishul Dhalia , Rohit Juneja , Laxman Prasad Goswami , Srimanta Maity , Amita Das

This work combines theory and experiment to examine the mechanisms underlying the harmonic generation of magnons. We develop a nonlinear spin-wave framework that is directly analogous to harmonic generation in nonlinear optics, and combine…

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 investigate the scaling behavior of high harmonic generation (HHG) driven by magnetic dynamics in spin-orbit coupled systems. In contrast to optically driven HHG--where the harmonic cutoff scales as $\omega^{-3}$ with the driving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Ousmane Ly

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a strong-field phenomenon that is sensitive to the attosecond dynamics of tunnel ionization and coherent transport of electron-hole pairs in solids. While the foundations of solid HHG have been established,…

We theoretically investigated the dependence of higher-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state materials on the ellipticity of the electric field. We found that in the multiphoton absorption and ac Zener regimes, the intensity of HHG…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 T. Tamaya , A. Ishikawa , T. Ogawa , K. Tanaka

High harmonic generation (HHG) has unleashed the power of strong laser physics in solids. Here we investigate HHG from a large system, solid C$_{60}$, with 240 valence electrons engaging harmonic generation at each crystal momentum, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-23 G. P. Zhang , Y. H. Bai

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a highly nonlinear emission process in which systems driven by intense laser pulses emit integer multiples (harmonics) of the driving field. This feature is considered universal to all occurrences of HHG.…

High harmonic generation(HHG) is one of the most commonly studied nonlinear optical phenomena, originating in the ultrafast dynamics of electrons in atomic gasses and semiconductors. It has attracted much attention because of its…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-08 Akira Kofuji , Robert Peters

We present ab initio calculations using the $R$-matrix with time dependence (RMT) method for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in argon in a short, intense pulse regime. The calculations employ a $6$-cycle $\sin^2$ pulse at $850$ nm with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Aaron T. Bondy , Klaus Bartschat

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) in solids has typically been explored in transparent dielectrics and semiconductors. Metals have long been dismissed due to their strong reflectivity at infrared wavelengths. Here, we demonstrate HHG from…

We theoretically investigate the piezo-optic effect of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in shear-strained semiconductors. By focusing on a typical semiconductor, GaAs, we show that there is optical activity, meaning different responses to…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 Tomohiro Tamaya , Takeo Kato

We compute and analyze the dependence of excitonic second- and third-harmonic generation (SHG/THG) as a function of the optical excitation intensity in the presence of static electric fields by solving the semiconductor Bloch equations. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Ruixin Zuo , Matthias Reichelt , Cong Ngo , Xiaohong Song , Weifeng Yang , Torsten Meier

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a striking phenomenon, which reflects the ultrafast dynamics of electrons. Recently, it has been demonstrated that HHG can be used to reconstruct not only the energy band structure but also the geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Atsushi Ono , Shun Okumura , Shohei Imai , Yutaka Akagi

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…

In high harmonic generation (HHG), non-dipole effects become increasingly significant at long driving wavelengths, as the magnetic field leads to a lateral drift of the continuum electron, which disrupts the electron recollision and…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Hailang Wei , Xiaosong Zhu , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear process where intense pulses of light drive matter to emit high harmonics of the driving frequency, reaching the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray spectral ranges. So far, the HHG…