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High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear frequency up-conversion process during which extremely short duration optical pulses at very short wavelengths are emitted. A major concern of HHG is the small conversion efficiency at…

We develop a numerical scheme to investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in intense laser-matter interactions. Tracing the time evolution of every electronic laser-field-free state, we "observe" the HHG in a time-integrated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Y. J. Chen , J. Liu , Bambi Hu

We theoretically demonstrate the quenching effect in below-threshold high harmonic generation (HHG) by using the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) and solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE). It is shown…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Xiaosong Zhu , Xi Liu , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Yueming Zhou , Min Li , Peixiang Lu

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in gases has been studied for almost 40 years in many different conditions, varying the laser wavelength, intensity, focusing geometry, target design, gas species, etc. However, no systematic…

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a typical high-order nonlinear optical phenomenon and can be used to probe electronic structures of solids. Here, we investigate the temperature dependence of HHG from Pr_{0.6}Ca_{0.4}MnO_{3} in the range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-27 A. Nakano , K. Uchida , Y. Tomioka , M. Takaya , Y. Okimoto , K. Tanaka

Using numerical simulations, we show that atomic high order harmonic generation, HHG, with a circularly polarized laser field offers an ideal framework for quantum-classical correspondence in strong field physics. With an appropriate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Francois Mauger , A. D. Bandrauk , Adam Kamor , Turgay Uzer , Cristel Chandre

The creation of light-matter hybrid states, polaritons, in a cavity offers new intriguing opportunities to manipulate the electronic structure and electron dynamics of atoms and molecules. Here, we investigate the effect of electronic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Paul A. Albrecht , Eric W. Fischer , Tillmann Klamroth , Peter Saalfrank

We present ab initio calculations using the $R$-matrix with time dependence (RMT) method for high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in argon in a short, intense pulse regime. The calculations employ a $6$-cycle $\sin^2$ pulse at $850$ nm with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Aaron T. Bondy , Klaus Bartschat

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from noble gas clusters in a supersonic gas jet. To identify the contribution of harmonic generation from clusters versus that from gas monomers, we measure the high-order harmonic output…

The past years have witnessed impressive advances in electronic structure calculation, especially in the complexity and size of the systems studied, as well as in computation time. Linear scaling methods based on empirical tight-binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Abduxukur Abdurixit , Alexis Baratoff , Giulia Galli

Because the commonly adopted viewpoint that the Keldysh parameter $\gamma $ determines the dynamical regime in strong field physics has long been demonstrated to be misleading, one can ask what happens as relevant physical parameters, such…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 E. A. Bleda , I. Yavuz , Z. Altun , T. Topcu

The generation of high harmonics is a strongly nonlinear effect that allows to probe properties of the target and to study electron dynamics in matter. It has been investigated in many different kinds of targets, including molecular gases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Lina Bielke , Samuel Schöpa , Falk-Erik Wiechmann , Franziska Fennel , Dieter Bauer

Based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectra obtained from solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for atoms, we established quantitatively that the HHG yield can be expressed as the product of a returning electron wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Anh-Thu Le , Toru Morishita , C. D. Lin

High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme nonlinear process where intense pulses of light drive matter to emit high harmonics of the driving frequency, reaching the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray spectral ranges. So far, the HHG…

High harmonic generation (HHG) from condensed matter phase holds promise to promote future cutting-edge research in the emerging field of attosecond nanoscopy. The key for the progress of the field relies on the capability of the existing…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Hicham Agueny

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by simulating the dynamics of a single active electron in periodic potentials. The corresponding time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations (TDSE) are solved numerically by using…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TDDFT) nonlinear nonperturbative response of the molecular system is studied for photoisomerization reaction. The 1,3-cyclohexadiene photoisomerization is probed by the high-harmonic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Lauren Bauerle , Agnieszka Jaron

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in two-dimensional materials offers a compelling route toward compact extreme ultraviolet sources and probing electron dynamics on the attosecond scale. However, achieving precise control over the emission and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhenjiang Zhao , Zhihua Zheng , Zhiyi Xu , Xing Ran , Xiaolong Yao , Fangping Ouyang

We report the capability to simulate in a quantum mechanical tight-binding (TB) atomistic fashion NW devices featuring several hundred to millions of atoms and diameter up to 18 nm. Such simulations go far beyond what is typically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Aryan Afzalian , Tim Vasen , Peter Ramvall , Matthias Passlack

We present studies of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) at laser intensities well above saturation. We use driving laser pulses which present a particular electron dynamics in the turn-on stage. Our results predict an increasing on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. A. Pérez-Hernández , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein , A. Zaïr , L. Roso