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We consider a quantum mechanical model for the high-order harmonic generation in bulk solids. The bandgap is assumed to be considerably larger than the exciting photon energy. Using dipole approximation, the dynamical equations for…
In strong field laser physics it is a common practice to use the high-order harmonic cutoff to estimate the laser intensity of the pulse that generates the harmonic radiation. Based on the semiclassical arguments it is possible to find a…
A nonlinear Schrodinger equation arising from light propagation down an inhomogeneous medium is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the non-linear term in the equation. In particular, a…
A periodically inhomogeneous Schrodinger equation is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the linear and non-linear term in the equation. Due to the periodic inhomogeneity of the linear term, the…
High harmonic generation in solids provides us compact and coherent UV sources. Our simulations illustrate abnormal harmonic yield dependence on the intensity of driving or pre-excitation pulses. A multielectron interference model is…
Photovoltaic effect of double quantum dots under nonuniform light field intensity has been studied theoretically. Comparing with the traditional p-n type photovoltaic effect, the inhomogeneous light field provides asymmetric potential…
Based upon the intrinsic symmetries approach to inhomogeneous cosmologies, we propose an exact solution to Einstein's field equations where the spatial sections are flat and the source is a non-perfect fluid such that the dissipative terms…
The asymptotic behavior of a one-dimensional spectral problem with periodic coefficient is addressed for high frequency modes by a method of Bloch wave homogenization. The analysis leads to a spectral problem including both microscopic and…
We consider the spectrum of a second-order elliptic operator in divergence form with periodic coefficients, which is known to be completely described by Bloch eigenvalues. We show that under small perturbations of the coefficients, a…
We study the generation of high harmonic radiation by Bloch electrons in a model transparent solid driven by a strong mid-infrared laser field. We solve the single-electron time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) using a velocity-gauge…
We investigate high-order harmonic generation in inhomogeneous media for reduced dimensionality models. We perform a phase-space analysis, in which we identify specific features caused by the field inhomogeneity. We compute high-order…
The optical phase of the driving field in the process of high harmonic generation and the coherence properties of the harmonics are fundamental concepts in attosecond physics. Here, we consider to drive the process by incoherent classical…
We compute and analyze the dependence of excitonic second- and third-harmonic generation (SHG/THG) as a function of the optical excitation intensity in the presence of static electric fields by solving the semiconductor Bloch equations. Our…
We investigate the role of inhomogeneous field configurations in systems with a spontaneously broken continuous global symmetry. Spontaneous breaking is usually defined as a specific double limit, first infinite volume at finite explicit…
We study numerically the Bloch electron wavepacket dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a new perspective in the coordinate space combined with the motion of the Bloch electron wavepackets…
We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…
The expressions for average densities of currents and charges induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous systems are obtained. The case of finite temperatures is considered. It is shown that average values are…
We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a disk of radius $\epsilon$ and another one outside. We derive sharp estimates of the size of the scattered field…
We present theoretical studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) produced by non-homogeneous fields as resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneity of the…