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Higgs spectroscopy is a new field in which Higgs modes in nonequilibrium superconductors are analyzed to gain information about the ground state. One experimental setup in which the Higgs mode in s-wave superconductors was observed is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-26 Lukas Schwarz , Dirk Manske

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

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

Strong field driven electric currents in condensed matter systems open new frontiers in petahertz electronics. In this regime new challenges arise as the role of the band structure and the quantum nature of electron-hole dynamics have yet…

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 study high-harmonic generation (HHG) from transition metal elements Mn and Mn$^+$, using full-dimensional, all-electron, first-principles simulations. The HHG spectra calculated with the time-dependent complete-active-space…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Imam S. Wahyutama , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

High harmonic emissions from crystalline solids contain rich information on the dynamics of electrons driven by intense infrared laser fields and have been intensively studied owing to their potential use as a probe of microscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-01 K. Uchida , K. Tanaka

We investigated the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) process of diatomic molecular ion $\mathrm{H}_2^+$ in non-Born-Oppenheimer approximations. The corresponding three-dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation is solved with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Mu-Zi Li , Guang-Rui Jia , Xue-Bin Bian

High-harmonic spectroscopy has become an essential ingredient in probing various ultrafast electronic processes in solids with sub-cycle temporal resolution. Despite its immense importance, sensitivity of high-harmonic spectroscopy to…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-07 Navdeep Rana , Gopal Dixit

State-of-the-art experiments employ strong ultrafast optical fields to study the nonlinear response of electrons in solids on an attosecond time-scale. Notably, a recent experiment retrieved a 3rd order nonlinear susceptibility by comparing…

Thermotropic liquid crystals are versatile optical materials that exhibit a state of matter intermediate between liquids and solids. Their properties can change significantly with temperature, pressure, or other external factors, leading to…

High harmonic generation (HHG) from semiconductors and insulators has become a very active area of research due to its great potential for developing compact HHG devices. Here we show that by growing monolayers (ML) of insulators on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Néstor F. Aguirre , Fernando Martín

Time-domain analysis of harmonic fields with sub-cycle resolution is now experimentally viable due to the emergence of sensitive, on-chip techniques for petahertz-scale optical-field sampling. We demonstrate how such a time-domain,…

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 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

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…

As a promising avenue to obtain new extreme ultraviolet light source and detect electronic properties, high-harmonic generation (HHG) has been actively developed in both theory and experiment. In solids lacking inversion symmetry, when…

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a widely explored process in solids, where intense lasers drive attosecond-to-femtosecond electron dynamics within bands, causing high-energy emission. While electrons and photons are considered the main…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Adam Herling , Ofer Neufeld

We present derivation and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Strong-Field Approximation with Gaussian nuclear Wave Packets (MC-SFA-GWP) -- a version of the molecular strong-field approximation which treats all electronic and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Serguei Patchkovskii , Michael S. Schuurman

High-harmonic generation (HHG) provides short-wavelength light that is useful for precision spectroscopy and probing ultrafast dynamics. We report efficient, phase-coherent harmonic generation up to 9th-order (333 nm) in chirped…