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Successful phase-matching methods for Third Harmonics Generation (THG) include phase-matching in birefringent crystal and quasi-phase-matching (QPM) in crystal with periodically poled domains. However, these methods are not feasible in some…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-25 Tan Yizhou , Yang Yisheng , Liao Jiali , Zhang Ming

We investigate collective excitations in magnetic topological insulators (TIs) and their impact on axion detection. In the three-dimensional TI model with the Hubbard term, the effective action of magnons and amplitude modes is formulated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Koji Ishiwata , Kentaro Nomura

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

Achieving efficient, high-power harmonic generation in the terahertz spectral domain has technological applications, for example in sixth generation (6G) communication networks. Massless Dirac fermions possess extremely large terahertz…

We employ mean-field approximation to investigate the interplay between the nontrivial band topology and the formation of excitonic insulator (EI) in a one-dimensional chain of atomic $s-p$ orbitals in the presence of repulsive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Zahra Khatibi , Roya Ahemeh , Mehdi Kargarian

Excitonic insulators (EI) arise from the formation of bound electron-hole pairs (excitons) in semiconductors and provide a solid-state platform for quantum many-boson physics. Strong exciton-exciton repulsion is expected to stabilize…

Multiband superconductors can host collective excitations with marked differences with respect to their single-band counterpart. We first study the spectrum of collective amplitude fluctuations in a clean two-bands superconductor, showing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-26 Jacopo Fiore , Mattia Udina , Marco Marciani , Goetz Seibold , Lara Benfatto

Third-order harmonic generation (THG) plays a vital role in microscopy, optical communications etc. Conventional methods of obtaining efficient THG in macroscopic crystal is already mature; however, they will finally limit the…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-28 Tun Cao , Kuan Liu , Yutao Tang , Junhong Deng , Kingfai Li , Guixin Li

We theoretically study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solid-phase systems in spatially inhomogeneous strong laser fields originated by resonant plasmons within a metallic nanostructure. The intensity of the second plateau in HHG…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

We investigate second harmonic generation (SHG) from hexagonal periodic arrays of triangular nano-holes of aluminum using a self-consistent methodology based on the hydrodynamics-Maxwell-Bloch approach. It is shown that angular polarization…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Maxim Sukharev , Adi Salomon , Joseph Zyss

The exciton insulator (EI) is a unique many-body ground state of condensed, spontaneously formed excitons (electron-hole pairs) in equilibrium, distinct from conventional band or Mott insulators. Originally proposed over half a century ago,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Yande Que , Clara Rebanal , Liam Watson , Michael Fuhrer , Michał Papaj , Bent Weber , Iolanda Di Bernardo

We study nonlinear effects in two-dimensional photonic metasurfaces supporting topologically-protected helical edge states at the nanoscale. We observe strong third-harmonic generation mediated by optical nonlinearities boosted by…

We investigate High-harmonic generation (HHG) in a dimerized Kitaev chain. The dimerization in the model is introduced through a site-dependent modulating potential, determined by a parameter $\lambda \in [-1:1]$. This parameter also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-06 Nivash R. , S. Srinidhi , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay , Amol R. Holkundkar

An excitonic insulator (EI) phase is a consequence of collective many-body effects where an optical band gap is formed by the condensation of electron-hole pairs or excitons. We report pressure-dependent optical pump optical probe…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-28 Vikas Arora , Victor S Muthu , Arijit Sinha , Luminita Harnagea , U V Waghmare , A K Sood

The spontaneous condensation of excitons in the excitonic insulating phase has been reported in Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ below 325 K. In this context, we present the temperature-dependent optical pump optical probe spectroscopy of Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-02 Vikas Arora , Sukanya Pal , Luminita Harnagea , D. V. S. Muthu , A K Sood

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-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metasurfaces are essential for enhancement of the otherwise small…

We develop a generalized Ginzburg-Landau theory for second harmonic generation (SHG) in magnets by expanding the free energy in terms of the order parameter in the magnetic phase and the susceptibility tensor in the corresponding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Debanand Sa , R. Valenti , C. Gros

We investigate the equilibrium state and the collective modes of an excitonic insulator (EI) in a Fabry-P\'erot cavity. In an EI, two bands of a semiconductor or semimetal spontaneously hybridize due to the Coulomb interaction between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-30 Katharina Lenk , Martin Eckstein

Recently, detailed calculations of the excitonic insulator phase model adapted to the case of 1\textit{T}-TiSe$_2$ have been presented. Through the spectral function theoretical photoemission intensity maps can be generated which are in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Monney , H. Cercellier , F. Clerc , C. Battaglia , E. F. Schwier , C. Didiot , M. G. Garnier , H. Beck , P. Aebi