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High-harmonic generation in GaAs beyond the perturbative regime

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-10-04 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We experimentally study the field-intensity dependence of high-harmonic generation in bulk gallium arsenide in reflection geometry. We find the oscillatory behavior at high fields where a perturbative scaling law no longer holds. By constructing a theoretical framework based on the Luttinger-Kohn model, we succeed in reproducing the observed oscillatory behavior. The qualitative agreement between the experiment and theory indicates that field-induced dynamic band modification is crucial in the nonperturbative regime. We consider the origin of the oscillatory behavior in terms of dynamical localization based on the Floquet subband picture.

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@article{arxiv.2004.04492,
  title  = {High-harmonic generation in GaAs beyond the perturbative regime},
  author = {Peiyu Xia and Tomohiro Tamaya and Changsu Kim and Faming Lu and Teruto Kanai and Nobuhisa Ishii and Jiro Itatani and Hidefumi Akiyama and Takeo Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04492},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures

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