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We present theoretical results on the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in bulk diamond induced by intense laser pulse of wavelength 800 nm and duration 15 fs. For laser intensity in the range $1 \le I \le 50 $ TW/cm$^2$ above bandgap…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Tzveta Apostolova , Boyan Obreshkov

The study of high-harmonic generation in confined quantum systems is vital to establishing a complete physical picture of harmonic generation from atoms and molecules to bulk solids. Based on a multilevel approach, we demonstrate how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Xiao Zhang , Tao Zhu , Hongchuan Du , Hong-Gang Luo , Jeroen van den Brink , Rajyavardhan Ray

Recently, the size-dependence of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in quantum dots has been investigated experimentally. In particular, for longer driving wavelengths and QDs smaller than 3\,nm, HHG was strongly suppressed, however,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Martin Thümmler , Alexander Croy , Ulf Peschel , Stefanie Gräfe

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in condensed-matter systems is both a source of fundamental insight into quantum electron motion and a promising candidate to realize compact ultraviolet and ultrafast light sources. Here we argue that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Joel D. Cox , Andrea Marini , F. Javier García de Abajo

We investigate the dependence of the intensity of radiation due to high-harmonic generation (HHG) as a function of the wavelength of the fundamental driver field. Superimposed on a smooth power-law dependence observed previously we find…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Schiessl , K. L. Ishikawa , E. Persson , J. Burgdörfer

A calculation of the high-harmonic generation (HHG) in $\alpha$-quartz using the time-dependent density functional theory is reported. The inter-band process is attributed to the dominant in HHG above the band gap. The photon energy is set…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-04 T. Otobe

Applying time-dependent local density approximation (TDLDA), we study the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) of ethylene subjected to the one-color ($\omega=2.72$ eV) and the two-color ($\omega_1=2.72$ eV and $\omega_2=5.44$ eV)…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-03-31 Z. P. Wang , P. M. Dinh , P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud , F. S. Zhang

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a versatile platform for exploring ultrafast and quantum-coherent phenomena in condensed matter. Recent advances reveal Berry-phase and topological effects in harmonic emission,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Marcelo F. Ciappina

We explore the roles of electronic band structure and Coulomb interactions in solid-state HHG by studying the optical response of linear atomic chains and carbon nanotubes to intense ultrashort pulses. Specifically, we simulate electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sandra de Vega , Joel D. Cox , Fernando Sols , F. Javier García de Abajo

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

We present theoretical studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in rare gases driven by plasmonic field enhancement. This kind of fields appears when plasmonic nanostructures are illuminated by an intense few-cycle laser and have a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. F. Ciappina , T. Shaaran , M. Lewenstein

The generation of high harmonics in laser-irradiated light homonuclear diatomics (H2+, N2 and O2) compared to that in atomic counterparts (of nearly identical binding energy) is studied within the velocity gauge version of conventional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vladimir I. Usachenko , Pavel E. Pyak , Shih-I Chu

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is one of the fundamental processes at the heart of attosecond physics. Traditionally viewed as an effective single-particle effect, recent advances have focused on contributions beyond this single-particle…

We theoretically investigate the effects of long-range disorder and electron-electron interactions on the optical properties of hexagonal armchair graphene quantum dots consisting of up to 10806 atoms. The numerical calculations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Altıntaş , K. E. Çakmak , A. D. Güçlü

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…

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 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 consider the process of high-order harmonics generation (HHG) in the xenon atom enhanced by the inter-shell correlation between the valence 5p and inner 4d shells. We derive the HHG spectrum from a numerical solution of the one-electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Alexander W. Bray , David Freeman , Sebastian Eckart , Anatoli S. Kheifets

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a manifestation of the strongly nonlinear response of matter to intense laser fields and has, as the basis for coherent XUV sources a variety of applications. Recently, HHG from atoms in a phase and…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-20 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of…