High harmonic generation in condensed matter

E Goulielmakis, T Brabec - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
When solids are exposed to intense laser fields whose forces are comparable to the binding
forces of valence electrons in crystals, nonlinear optics of solids advances to the …

Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

High-harmonic generation from solids

S Ghimire, DA Reis - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
High-harmonic generation in atomic gases has been studied for decades, and has formed
the basis of attosecond science. Observation of high-order harmonics from bulk crystals was …

Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, DR Baykusheva, D Jain… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The prediction and realization of topological insulators have sparked great interest in
experimental approaches to the classification of materials,–. The phase transition between …

Attosecond science based on high harmonic generation from gases and solids

J Li, J Lu, A Chew, S Han, J Li, Y Wu, H Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

High-harmonic generation from an atomically thin semiconductor

H Liu, Y Li, YS You, S Ghimire, TF Heinz, DA Reis - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in bulk solids permits the exploration of materials in a new
regime of strong fields and attosecond timescales,,,,,. The generation process has been …

Introduction to theory of high-harmonic generation in solids: tutorial

L Yue, MB Gaarde - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged in recent years as a rapidly
expanding and interdisciplinary field, attracting attention from both the condensed-matter …

Anisotropic high-harmonic generation in bulk crystals

YS You, DA Reis, S Ghimire - Nature physics, 2017 - nature.com
The microscopic valence electron density determines the optical, electronic, structural and
thermal properties of materials. However, current techniques for measuring this electron …

All-optical probe of three-dimensional topological insulators based on high-harmonic generation by circularly polarized laser fields

D Baykusheva, A Chacón, J Lu, TP Bailey… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the observation of an anomalous nonlinear optical response of the prototypical
three-dimensional topological insulator bismuth selenide through the process of high-order …