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High harmonic generation (HHG) is a widely explored process in solids, where intense lasers drive attosecond-to-femtosecond electron dynamics within bands, causing high-energy emission. While electrons and photons are considered the main…
We investigate three dimensional anharmonic phonons in tetrahedral symmetry and superconductivity mediated by these phonons. Three dimensional anharmonic phonon spectra are calculated directly by solving Schr\"odinger equation and the…
THz-range dielectric spectroscopy and first-principle-based effective-Hamiltonian molecular dynamics simulations were employed to elucidate the dielectric response in the paraelectric phase of (Ba,Sr)TiO3 solid solutions. Analysis of the…
The terahertz (THz) generation in a dual-color field was investigated experimentally by precisely controlling the relative time delay $\tau$ and polarization $\theta$ of dual-color lasers, where the accompanying third-harmonic generation…
The interaction between soft optic and acoustic phonons was investigated for Sn2P2(Se0.28S0.72)6 proper uniaxial ferroelectrics by Brillouin scattering and ultrasonic pulse-echo techniques. The elastic softening of hypersound velocity of…
Time-resolved two color pump-probe polarization spectroscopy was performed at room temperature on SrTiO3 films grown directly on Si with film thickness varying from 2 nm to 7.8 nm. The E soft mode with a characteristic frequency of 0.2 THz…
The THz Kerr effect measures the birefringence induced in an otherwise isotropic material by a strong THz pulse driving the Raman-active excitations of the systems. Here we provide experimental evidence of a sizable Kerr response in…
The complexity of interactions between the crystal-field and unusual non-collinear spin arrangement in non-trivial magnets demands novel tools to unravel the mystery underneath. In this work, we study such interaction dynamics of…
Temperature-dependent FAR-infrared reflectivity spectra of partially ordered magnetodielectric La2CoMnO6 is presented, from room temperature up to 675 K. A clear first-ordered structural phase transition (SPT) from a monoclinic structure…
Optical harmonic generation on excitons is found in ZnSe/BeTe quantum wells with type-II band alignment. Two experimental approaches with spectrally-broad femtosecond laser pulses and spectrally-narrow picosecond pulses are used for…
Results of the experimental study of the electromagnetic pumping of frequency 0.3 THz upon the soft mode phonons in the (Ba, Sr)TiO3 film are presented. Some features of the phonon state are revealed using the capacitor thermometer and the…
Hybrid dielectric metasurfaces have emerged as a promising approach to enhancing near field confinement and thus achieving high optical nonlinearity using low loss dielectrics. Additional flexibility in design and fabrication of hybrid…
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…
Nonlinear responses to intense terahertz (THz) fields provide unique insights into complex dynamics of contemporary material systems. However, the interpretation of the obtained data, in particular, distinguishing genuine ionic oscillations…
Terahertz (THz) transmission spectra have been measured as function of temperature and magnetic field on single crystals of Cu3Bi(SeO3)2O2Br. In the time-domain THz spectra without magnetic field, two resonance absorptions are observed…
Third-harmonic generation (THG) experiments on superconductors can be used to investigate collective excitations like the amplitude mode of the order parameter known as Higgs mode. These modes are visible due to resonances in the THG signal…
We report on time-resolved ultrafast terahertz third-harmonic generation spectroscopy of nonequilibrium dynamics of Weyl fermions in a nanometer thin film of the Weyl semimetal TaP. Terahertz third-harmonic generation is observed at room…
We study the effect of strong electron-phonon interactions on the damping of the Higgs amplitude mode in superconductors by means of non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field simulations of the Holstein model. In contrast to the BCS dynamics, we…
Incipient ferroelectric KTaO3 with off-center Li impurity of the critical concentration of 2.8 mol% was investigated in order to clarify the dipole glass state under electric field. Using optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscope,…
We theoretically study the THz-induced high-order harmonic generation (HHG) and nonlinear electric transport in graphene based on the quantum master equation with the relaxation time approximation. To obtain microscopic insight into the…