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Coupling between light and material excitations underlies a wide range of optical phenomena. Polaritons are eigenstates of a coupled system with hybridized wave function. Owing to their hybrid composition, polaritons exhibit at the same…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-27 Denis G. Baranov , Christian Schäfer , Maxim V. Gorkunov

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extremely nonlinear effect, where a medium is driven by a strong laser field, generating coherent broadband radiation with photon energies ranging up to the X-ray and pulse durations reaching attosecond…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-20 Alexey Gorlach , Ofer Neufeld , Nicholas Rivera , Oren Cohen , Ido Kaminer

Quantum high-harmonic generation (HHG) is a prominent and growing field of research with potential capabilities of providing high photon-number entangled states of light. However, there is an open debate regarding the theory level required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Sebastián de-la-Peña , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio , Ofer Neufeld

We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic…

Topological materials are of interest to both fundamental science and advanced technologies, because topological states are robust with respect to perturbations and dissipation. Experimental detection of topological invariants is thus in…

The chiral organic-inorganic halide perovskites (OIHPs) are vital candidates for superior nonlinear optical (NLO) effects associated with circularly polarized (CP) light. NLO in chiral materials often couples with magnetic dipole (MD)…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-25 Daichi Okada , Fumito Araoka

Optical coherence encodes information about the correlations of the electromagnetic field. In combination with quantum optical approaches, it allows for the study of the correlations between photons. Since the pioneering papers of Glauber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Philipp Stammer , Javier Rivera-Dean , Maciej Lewenstein

When a high power laser beam irradiates a small aperture on a solid foil target, the strong laser field drives surface plasma oscillation at the periphery of this aperture, which acts as a "relativistic oscillating window". The diffracted…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Longqing Yi

Nonlinear light-matter interaction and, in particular, high-harmonic generation (HHG) are fundamentally interesting and frequently discussed as versatile probes of quantum materials with potential for optical information processing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jessica O. de Almeida , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Mathias S. Scheurer

The atomic response to an ultra-intense driving field produces a characteristic high-harmonic spectrum featuring a rapid drop in intensity for the lower harmonics, followed by a plateau and a sharp cutoff. This response vanishes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Lidija Petrovic , Philipp Stammer , Maciej Lewenstein , Javier Rivera-Dean

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

We analytically describe the strong-field light-electron interaction using a quantized coherent laser state with arbitrary photon number. We obtain a light-electron wave function which is a closed-form solution of the time-dependent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 I. A. Gonoskov , N. Tsatrafyllis , I. K. Kominis , P. Tzallas

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) results from strong-field laser matter interaction and it is one of the main processes that are used to extract electron structural and dynamical information about the atomic or molecular targets with…

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

Circular dichroism is a technologically important phenomenon contrasting the absorption and resultant emission properties between left- and right-handed circularly polarized light. While the chiral handedness of systems mainly determines…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-21 Xiuhu Zhao , Jinxing Li , Mingjun Huang , Satoshi Aya

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an established means of producing coherent, short wavelength, ultrafast pulses from a compact set-up. Table-top high-harmonic sources are increasingly being used to image physical and biological systems…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) by hydrogenlike atoms/ions in the uniform periodic electric field, formed by the two linearly polarized counterpropagating laser beams of relativistic intensities, is studied. The relativistic quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 H. K. Avetissian , A. G. Markossian , G. F. Mkrtchian

We theoretically discover possible dc-current induction and high-harmonic generation from photodriven chiral fermions in B20-type semimetals irradiated with circularly polarized light as nonlinear optical responses with several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-24 Yuya Ominato , Masahito Mochizuki

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a nonlinear process in which a material sample is irradiated by intense laser pulses, causing the emission of high harmonics of the incident light. HHG has historically been explained by theories employing…

Chirality is a universal feature in nature, as observed in fermion interactions and DNA helicity. Much attention has been given to chiral interactions of light, not only regarding its physical interpretation but also focusing on intriguing…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Sunkyu Yu , Hyun Sung Park , Xianji Piao , Bumki Min , Namkyoo Park