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We study high-order harmonic generation by optically driven one- and two-dimensional hydrogenlike atoms formed by Coulomb imurities in graphene. The time-dependent Dirac equations with Coulomb plus time-periodic monochromatic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 S. Rakhmanov , K. Matchonov , H. Yusupov , K. Nasriddinov , D. Matrasulov

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 study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) resulting from the illumination of plasmonic nanostructures with a short laser pulse. We show that both the inhomogeneities of the local electric field and the confinement of the electron motion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , Srdjan S. Acimovic , T. Shaaran , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

We show that the Floquet approach with a Sturmian basis means an efficient description of high-order harmonic generation with monochromatic excitation. This method, although involves numerical calculations, is close to analytic approaches…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Jozsef Kasza Peter Dombi , Peter Foldi

High-harmonic generation (HHG) normally requires a careful adjustment of the driving laser intensity (typically $10^{14} - 10^{15}$ W/cm$^2$) and gas medium parameters to enable good phase matching conditions. In contrast with conventional…

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

High-harmonic generation by a highly non-linear interaction of infrared laser fields with matter allows for the generation of attosecond pulses in the XUV spectral regime. This process, well established for atoms, has been recently extended…

High-order harmonic generation by a bicircular field, which consists of two coplanar counter-rotating circularly polarized fields of frequency $r\omega$ and $s\omega$ ($r$ and $s$ are integers), is investigated for a polyatomic molecule.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Senad Odžak , Elvedin Hasović , Dejan B. Milošević

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 M. F. Ciappina , J. Biegert , R. Quidant , M. Lewenstein

Highly nonlinear optical phenomena can provide access to properties of electronic systems which are otherwise difficult to access through conventional linear optical spectroscopies. In particular, high harmonic generation (HHG) in…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Uchida , V. Pareek , K. Nagai , K. M. Dani , K. Tanaka

The order of high harmonics emitted by an atom in an intense laser field is limited by the so-called cutoff frequency. Solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, we show that this frequency can be increased considerably by a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Jan-Michael Rost

We derive an elegant solution for a two-level system evolving adiabatically under the influence of a driving field with a time-dependent phase, which includes open system effects such as dephasing and spontaneous emission. This solution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ingo Kamleitner , James D. Cresser , Barry C. Sanders

We investigate the effect of dynamic electron correlation on high-harmonic generation in helium atoms using intense visible light (\lambda=390nm). Two complementary approaches are used which account for correlation in an approximate manner:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 G. A. McKenna , R. Nepstad , J. F. McCann , D. Dundas

We theoretically study multielectron effects in high-harmonic generation (HHG), using all-electron first-principles simulations for a one-dimensional (1D) model atom. In addition to usual plateau and cutoff (from a cation in the present…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Iliya Tikhomirov , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

High-harmonic generation in solids allows probing and controlling electron dynamics in crystals on few femtosecond timescales, paving the way to lightwave electronics. In the spatial domain, recent advances in the real-space interpretation…

We present results of relativistic calculations of even order harmonic generation from various atomic targets. The even order harmonics appear due to the relativistic non-dipole effects. We take these relativistic effects into account by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 I. A. Ivanov , Kyung Taec Kim

In this work, the nonlinear optical response, and in particular, the high harmonic generation of semiconductors is addressed by using the Wannier gauge. One of the main problems in the time evolution of the Semiconductor Bloch equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 R. E. F. Silva , F. Martín , M. Ivanov

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a versatile platform for exploring ultrafast and quantum-coherent phenomena in condensed matter. Recent advances reveal Berry-phase and topological effects in harmonic emission,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Marcelo F. Ciappina

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…

High-harmonic generation is one of the most extreme nonlinear-optical processes observed to date. By focusing an intense laser pulse into a gas, the light-atom interaction that occurs during the process of ionising the atoms results in the…