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High harmonic generation (HHG) provides a flexible framework for the development of coherent light sources in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft x-ray regimes. However it suffers from low conversion efficiencies as the control of the HHG…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-16 Alberto Castro , Angel Rubio , E. K. U. Gross

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 (HHG) in strongly correlated Mott insulators is investigated using exact diagonalization and time-dependent density-matrix propagation of a laser-driven one-dimensional Hubbard chain. By projecting onto equilibrium…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Tao-Yuan Du , Hui-Ru Li , Bo Li , Ruifeng Lu

We investigate High-Harmonic Generation (HHG) in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with electron-phonon coupling modeled via the Holstein interaction. The system dynamics are simulated using the tight-binding approximation, with local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Gabriel Caceres-Aravena , Dieter Bauer

Recent advancements in the generation of mid-infrared and terahertz laser pulses have enabled us to observe strong-field driven non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors, dielectrics, and semimetals. HHG has added…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-22 M. S. Mrudul

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…

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by simulating the dynamics of a single active electron in periodic potentials. The corresponding time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations (TDSE) are solved numerically by using…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) with relativistically strong laser pulses is considered employing electron ionization-recollisions from multiply charged ions in counterpropagating, linearly polarized attosecond pulse trains. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Markus C. Kohler , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

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

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 theoretically investigate the second harmonic generation (SHG) of topological insulator surface states in a perpendicular magnetic field. Our theory is based on the microscopic expression of the second-order magneto-optical conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Kainan Chang , Muhammad Zubair , Jin Luo Cheng , Wang-Kong Tse

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

The nonlinearity of magnetization precession and spin waves is a cornerstone of contemporary magnonics. We investigate nonlinear magnetization dynamics in a thin epitaxial iron film driven by femtosecond laser pulses in regimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 P. I. Gerevenkov , L. A. Shelukhin , Ia. A. Filatov , P. A. Dvortsova , A. M. Kalashnikova

High-order sideband generation (HSG), as an analogue of the interband processes in high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids, is a nonperturbative nonlinear optical phenomenon in semiconductors that are simultaneously driven by a relatively…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-31 Qile Wu , Mark S. Sherwin

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in isolated atoms and molecules has been widely utilized in extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photonics and attosecond pulse metrology. Recently, HHG has also been observed in solids, which could lead to…

High harmonic generation (HHG) in crystals has revealed a wealth of perspectives such as all-optical mapping of the electronic band structure, ultrafast quantum information and the creation of novel all-solid-state attosecond sources.…

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in doped semiconductors. The HHG is simulated with the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE). The results show that the high-order harmonics in the second…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tengfei Huang , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Xi Liu , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

High-harmonic generation has emerged as a pivotal process in strong-field physics, yielding extreme ultraviolet radiation and attosecond pulses with a wide range of applications. Furthermore, its emergent connection with the field of…

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…

We present a semiclassical model for plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic generation (HHG) in the vicinity of metal nanostructures. We show that both the inhomogeneity of the enhanced local fields and electron absorption by the metal surface play…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-29 A. Husakou , S. -J. Im , J. Herrmann