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The recent observation of high-harmonic generation from solids creates a new possibility for engineering fundamental strong-field processes by patterning the solid target with subwavelength nanostructures. All-dielectric metasurfaces…

We present a high harmonic generation theory which generalizes the strong-field approximation to the resonant case, when the harmonic frequency is close to that of the transition from the ground to an autoionizing state of the generating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. V. Strelkov , M. A. Khokhlova , N. Yu. Shubin

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

Using numerical simulations, we show that atomic high order harmonic generation, HHG, with a circularly polarized laser field offers an ideal framework for quantum-classical correspondence in strong field physics. With an appropriate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk , Adam Kamor , Turgay Uzer , Cristel Chandre

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases leads to short-pulse extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation useful in a number of applications, for example, attosecond science and nanoscale imaging. However, this process depends on many…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids - the frequency up-conversion of an optical signal - is governed by symmetries. At terahertz (THz) frequencies, HHG is a key technology to access high frequency spectral windows that are…

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

We consider several aspects of high-order harmonic generation in solids: the effects of elastic and inelastic scattering; varying pulse characteristics; and inclusion of material-specific parameters through a realistic band structure. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-07 A. F. Kemper , B. Moritz , J. K. Freericks , T. P. Devereaux

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a strong driving field interacts with a material, resulting in the frequency up-conversion of the driver into its high-order harmonics. This process is highly sensitive to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 J. Rivera-Dean , P. Stammer , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

We studied the multi-plateau high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solids numerically. It is found that the HHG spectrum in the second or higher plateau is redshifted in short laser pulses due to the nonadiabatic effect. The…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Guang-Rui Jia , Xue-Bin Bian

We investigate the multielectron effects on high-harmonic generation from solid-state materials using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. We find qualitative change in harmonic spectra, in particular, multiple-plateau formation at…

Non-perturbative high-harmonic generation (HHG) has recently been observed in the liquid phase, where it was demonstrated to have a different physical mechanism compared to gas and solid phases of matter. The currently best physical picture…

We revisit the mechanism of high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by comparing HHG in laser fields with different ellipticities but constant maximum amplitude. It is shown that the cutoff of HHG is strongly extended in a circularly…

The selection rules of high harmonic generation (HHG) are investigated using three-dimensional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). From the harmonic spectra obtained with various real molecules and different forms of laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Xi Liu , Xiaosong Zhu , Liang Li , Yang Li , Qingbin Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Peixiang Lu

We present a variational augmentation procedure to optimize the exponents of Gaussian continuum basis sets for simulating strong-field laser ionization phenomena such as higher harmonic generation (HHG) in atoms and ions using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Sai Vijay Bhaskar Mocherla , Raghunathan Ramakrishnan

In the framework of time-dependent density functional theory, we obtain high-order harmonics of photon energies up to 10 Up from bilayer crystals with an interlayer spacing d = 70 {\AA}. At grazing incidence, a clear double-plateau…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Chao Yu , Shicheng Jiang , Tong Wu , Guanglu Yuan , Yigeng Peng , Cheng Jin , Ruifeng Lu

We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By adjusting the laser intensity and focusing position, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Lixin He , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Chunyang Zhai , Feng Wang , Wenjing Shi , Peixiang Lu

We extend our recently developed semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator (SFHK) method to calculate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) for atoms in intense lasers. We show that our method, based on a combination of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Phi-Hung Tran , Hao Quan Truong , R. Esteban Goetz , Anh-Thu Le

Strong-field methods in solids enable new strategies for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy and provide all-optical insights into the electronic properties of condensed matter in reciprocal and real space. Additionally, solid-state media…

High-harmonic generation in solids has emerged as a powerful probe of ultrafast electron dynamics and lattice motion, and recent theoretical work has suggested that thermally driven lattice fluctuations can act as an effective source of…