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High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids reflects the underlying nonperturbative nonlinear dynamics of electrons in a strong light field and is a powerful tool for ultrafast spectroscopy of electronic structures. Photo-carrier doping allows…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged in recent years as a rapidly expanding and interdisciplinary field, attracting attention from both the condensed-matter and the atomic, molecular, and optics communities. It has exciting…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Lun Yue , Mette B. Gaarde

Highly nonlinear optical phenomena can provide access to properties of electronic systems which are otherwise difficult to access through conventional linear optical spectroscopies. In particular, high harmonic generation (HHG) in…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Uchida , V. Pareek , K. Nagai , K. M. Dani , K. Tanaka

High harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has recently emerged as a powerful all-optical approach for probing material properties and ultrafast electron dynamics in quantum systems. It has been widely applied for studying two-dimensional and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Eyal Uzner , Ofer Neufeld

We analytically and numerically investigate the emission of high-harmonic radiation from model solids by intense few-cycle mid-infrared laser pulses. In single-active-electron approximation, we expand the active electron's wavefunction in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-26 Francisco Navarrete , Marcelo F. Ciappina , Uwe Thumm

We theoretically study the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in one-dimensional spin systems. While in electronic systems the driving by AC electric fields produces radiation from the dynamics of excited charges, we consider here the situation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-24 Shintaro Takayoshi , Yuta Murakami , Philipp Werner

We propose an analytical approach to high-harmonic generation (HHG) for nonperturbative low-frequency and high-intensity fields based on the (Jeffreys-)Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation. By properly taking into account Stokes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Hidetoshi Taya , Masaru Hongo , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

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

An optical Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) allows to probe various structural and symmetry-related properties of materials, since it is sensitive to the inversion symmetry breaking in the system. Here, we investigate the SHG response from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 M. Vandelli , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

We perform a Bohmian-trajectory analysis of high-order harmonic generation (HHG), focusing on the fact that typical HHG spectra are best reproduced by the Bohmian trajectory starting at the innermost part of the core [Phys. Rev. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 J. Wu , B. B. Augstein , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

High-harmonic generation (HHG) from solid state offers promising potential for attosecond optics with enhanced efficiency and compact configurations. However, Current implementations face critical limitations imposed by material damage…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Qing-Guo Fan , Kang Lai , Wen-hao Liu , Lin-Wang Wang , Jun-Wei Luo , Zhi Wang

Third-harmonic generation (THG) is a key nonlinear optical process for ultrafast imaging, terahertz (THz) signal generation, and symmetry-sensitive probes, often dominating in centrosymmetric materials where lower-order responses vanish.…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 Sanjay Sarkar , Debottam Mandal , Amit Agarwal

We study numerically the Bloch electron wave-packet dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a quasi-classical model in the \emph{k} space combined with the energy band structure to understand the…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-05 Tao-Yuan Du , Xue-Bin Bian

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

Using the Hubbard model we study how the process of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) is modified by beyond mean-field electron-electron correlation for both finite and bulk systems. A finite-size enhancement of the HHG signal is found…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Thomas Hansen , Simon Vendelbo Bylling Jensen , Lars Bojer Madsen

We present theoretical studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) driven by plasmonic fields in two-electron atomic systems. Comparing the two-active electron and single-active electron approximation models of the negative hydrogen ion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 A. Chacón , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

If we stack up two layers of graphene while changing their respective orientation by some twisting angle, we end up with a system that has striking differences when compared to single-layer graphene. For a very specific value of this twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Eduardo B. Molinero , Anushree Datta , María J. Calderón , Elena Bascones , Rui E. F. Silva

The observation of non-perturbative harmonic emission in solids from ultrashort laser pulses [1] sparked a wave of studies [2,3] as a probe of charge carrier dynamics in solids under strong fields and a route to extreme ultraviolet (XUV)…

We theoretically study high-harmonic generation (HHG) from solids driven by intense laser pulses using a one-dimensional model periodic crystal. By numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation directly on a real-space…

A quantum theory of the third-harmonic generation in graphene is presented. An analytical formula for the nonlinear conductivity tensor $\sigma^{(3)}_{\alpha\beta\gamma\delta}(\omega,\omega,\omega)$ is derived. Resonant maxima of the third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 S. A. Mikhailov