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 …

Ultrafast high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, SRU Haque, S Ghimire - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-harmonic spectroscopy, an ultrafast all-optical technique initially conceptualized in
atomic and molecular systems, has now emerged as a powerful platform for studying the …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

High-harmonic generation by a bright squeezed vacuum

A Rasputnyi, Z Chen, M Birk, O Cohen, I Kaminer… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-harmonic generation has been driving the development of attosecond science and
sources. More recently, high-harmonic generation in solids has been adopted by other …

Are There Universal Signatures of Topological Phases in High-Harmonic Generation? Probably Not.

O Neufeld, N Tancogne-Dejean, H Hübener… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
High harmonic generation (HHG) has developed in recent years as a promising tool for
ultrafast materials spectroscopy. At the forefront of these advancements, several works …

Petahertz electronics

C Heide, PD Keathley, MF Kling - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Petahertz, or lightwave, electronics uses tailored optical waveforms to control charge
carriers in an electronic circuit at petahertz frequencies. This may enable faster processing …

Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor

J Shi, H Xu, C Heide, C HuangFu, C **a… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical materials possess wide applications, ranging from terahertz and mid-
infrared detection to energy harvesting. Recently, the correlations between nonlinear optical …

High-harmonic generation in CdTe with ultra-low pump intensity and high photon flux

Z Long, H Yang, K Tian, L He, R Qin, ZY Chen… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
An ultra-low pump intensity and high photon flux have been long pursuits of high harmonic
generation (HHG) in solids. However, there is lack of a criterion to identify a pristine solid …

Strong Self‐Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity in a Topological Insulator with Generation of Tamm State

H Lu, S Shi, D Li, L Hou, S Bo, J Zhao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As new states of matter currently attracting broad attention in the optics field, topological
insulators (TIs) present topologically‐protected conducting surface states surrounding …

Revealing the interplay between strong field selection rules and crystal symmetries

AJ Uzan-Narovlansky, G Orenstein, S Shames… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Symmetries are ubiquitous in condensed matter physics, playing an important role in the
appearance of different phases of matter. Nonlinear light matter interactions serve as a …