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We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By adjusting the laser intensity and focusing position, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Lixin He , Pengfei Lan , Qingbin Zhang , Chunyang Zhai , Feng Wang , Wenjing Shi , Peixiang Lu

The atomic response to an ultra-intense driving field produces a characteristic high-harmonic spectrum featuring a rapid drop in intensity for the lower harmonics, followed by a plateau and a sharp cutoff. This response vanishes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Lidija Petrovic , Philipp Stammer , Maciej Lewenstein , Javier Rivera-Dean

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…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG), a robust tabletop source for producing attosecond pulses, has been extensively utilized in attosecond metrology. Traditionally, HHG driven by classical laser fields involves two typical quantum paths…

Electron quantum path interferences in strongly laser-driven aligned molecules and their dependence on the molecular alignment is an essential open problem in strong-field molecular physics. Here, we demonstrate an approach which provides…

Various interference effects are known to exist in the process of high harmonic generation (HHG) both at the single atom and macroscopic levels. In particular, the quantum path difference between the long and short trajectories of electron…

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

This perspective introduces attosecond path qubits: measurement-defined two-level subsystems that arise naturally in strong-field physics from the coherent interference of distinguishable quantum pathways. These effective qubits are…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Oren Cohen

We investigate high-order harmonic spectra from aligned diatomic molecules in intense driving fields whose components have orthogonal polarizations. We focus on how the driving-field ellipticity influences structural interference patterns…

High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hamlet K. Avetissian , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Andreas Knorr

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al, Science…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Hideki Hirori , Yasuyuki Sanari , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Angel Rubio

We investigate the electron quantum path interference effects during high harmonic generation in atomic gas medium driven by ultrashort chirped laser pulses. To achieve that, we identify and vary the different experimentally relevant…

Two-dimensional hexagonal materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit valley degrees of freedom, offering fascinating potential for valley-based quantum computing and optoelectronics. In nonlinear optics, the K and K' valleys…

We experimentally observe longer than long trajectory influence in high order harmonic generation (HHG) by varying the peak intensity of the driving laser field through either direct attenuation, or by chirping the laser pulse. Using a…

We studied the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from 2D solid materials in circularly and bichromatic circularly polarized laser fields numerically by simulating the dynamics of single-active-electron processes in 2D periodic…

High-harmonic spectroscopy driven by circularly-polarized laser pulses and their counter-rotating second harmonic is a new branch of attosecond science which currently lacks quantitative interpretations. We extend this technique to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Denitsa Baykusheva , Simon Brennecke , Manfred Lein , Hans Jakob Wörner

In quantum sideband high harmonic generation (QSHHG), high harmonic generation is perturbed by a bright quantum field resulting in harmonic sidebands, with the intent to transfer non-classical properties from the quantum perturbation to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Neda Boroumand , Adam Thorpe , Graeme Bart , Lu Wang , David N. Purschke , Giulio Vampa , Thomas Brabec

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

We perform a detailed analysis of high-order harmonic generation in diatomic molecules within the strong-field approximation, with emphasis on quantum-interference effects. Specifically, we investigate how the different types of electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

We perform a detailed analysis of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in atoms within the strong field approximation (SFA) by considering spatially inhomogeneous monochromatic laser fields. We investigate how the individual pairs of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Shaaran , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein
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