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We develop a general theory of high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solid-state systems, based on a weak-correlation expansion of photonic and matter degrees of freedom. Unlike standard HHG theories, which treat light-matter dynamics through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Denis Ilin , Alexander S. Solntsev , Ivan Iorsh

In the past two decades high-harmonic generation (HHG) has become a key process in ultra-fast science due to the extremely short time-structure of the underlying electron dynamics being imprinted in the emitted harmonic light bursts. After…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 Markus C. Kohler , Thomas Pfeifer , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Spin-orbit coupling and quantum geometry are fundamental aspects in modern condensed matter physics, with their primary manifestations in momentum space being spin textures and Berry curvature. In this work, we investigate their interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-27 Francesco Gabriele , Carmine Ortix , Mario Cuoco , Filomena Forte

We present the first theoretical results on the generation of short-wavelength attosecond vortex beams in semiconductors through their interactions with an intense Laguerre-Gauss beam, in the limit where non-perturbative high-order…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 C. Granados , B. Kumar Das , Christian Heide , Shambhu Ghimire , M. F. Ciappina

We expose a mechanism for the dynamical generation and control of light states with diverse topologies in spiraling guiding structures. Specifically, we show that spiraling shallow refractive index landscapes induce coupling and periodic…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) carry transverse orbital angular momentum and offer new degrees of freedom for light-matter interactions. Yet conventional focusing of STOVs introduces spatiotemporal astigmatism: the beam diffracts…

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…

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are popular tools for generating structured light fields and have fostered numerous applications in optics and photonics. Here, we explore the limits of what fields these devices are capable of generating and…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Jonathan Pinnell , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Andrew Forbes

We investigate the spatial characteristics of high-order harmonic radiation generated in argon, and observe cross-like patterns in the far field. An analytical model describing harmonics from an astigmatic driving beam reveals that these…

We study intraband high-harmonic generation (HHG) in a crystal driven by quantum light. Previous theoretical studies have developed a framework based on coherent state expansions in terms of P distributions to consider nonclassical driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rasmus Vesterager Gothelf , Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Lars Bojer Madsen

We demonstrate that high-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids dominantly originates from strongly localized surface states through non-perturbative processes. Measurements reveal that HHG from bulk states is suppressed by at least 1-2 orders…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Seres , E. Seres , C. Serrat , T. Schumm

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

Light with spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum (ST-OAM) is a recently discovered type of structured and localized electromagnetic field. This field carries characteristic space-time spiral phase structure and transverse intrinsic OAM.…

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

High order harmonic (HOH) generation by interacting extremely intense electromagnetic waves in the quantum vacuum is investigated within the framework of the Heisenberg-Euler formalism. We consider here the process in the lowest order of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Pavel Sasorov , Sergei Bulanov

The spatiotemporal sculpturing of light beams with arbitrary phase and polarization topologies has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential to advance optical technologies and reveal novel physical phenomena.…

The dimensionality of vortical structures has recently been extended beyond two dimensions, providing higher-order topological characteristics and robustness for high-capacity information processing and turbulence control. The generation of…

Vector beam, with a spatial nonuniform polarization distribution, is important for many applications due to its unique field characteristics and novel effects when interacting with matter. Here through three-dimensional particle-in-cell…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-22 Zi-Yu Chen , Ronghao Hu

We study the high harmonic generation with vortex beams beyond the dipole approximation. To do so we employ the full minimal coupling approach to account for multipolar coupling without truncation and describe the full spatio-temporal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Esra Ilke Albar , Valeriia P. Kosheleva , Heiko Appel , Angel Rubio , Franco P. Bonafé

Optical spatiotemporal vortices with transverse photon orbital angular momentum (OAM) have recently become a focal point of research. In this work we theoretically and experimentally investigate optical spatiotemporal vortices with radial…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-26 Xin Liu , Qian Cao , Nianjia Zhang , Andy Chong , Yangjian Cai , Qiwen Zhan