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 …

High order harmonic generation in solids: a review on recent numerical methods

C Yu, S Jiang, R Lu - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Interaction of intense lasers with solid materials offers an alternative way to achieve high-
order harmonic generation (HHG). Since the underlying mechanisms of the harmonic …

Control of the electron dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation on ultrafast time scales by a polarization-skewed laser pulse

X Song, S Yang, G Wang, J Lin, L Wang, T Meier… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Since high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms depends sensitively on the
polarization of the driving laser field, the polarization gating (PG) technique was developed …

Light emission from strongly driven many-body systems

A Pizzi, A Gorlach, N Rivera, A Nunnenkamp… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Strongly driven systems of emitters offer an attractive source of light over broad spectral
ranges up to the X-ray region. A key limitation of these systems is that the light they emit is …

High-harmonic generation in solids with and without topological edge states

D Bauer, KK Hansen - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
High-harmonic generation in the two topological phases of a finite, one-dimensional,
periodic structure is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent density functional …

Ultrafast Modification of Hubbard in a Strongly Correlated Material: Ab initio High-Harmonic Generation in NiO

N Tancogne-Dejean, MA Sentef, A Rubio - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Engineering effective electronic parameters is a major focus in condensed matter physics.
Their dynamical modulation opens the possibility of creating and controlling physical …

Imperfect recollisions in high-harmonic generation in solids

L Yue, MB Gaarde - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We theoretically investigate high-harmonic generation in hexagonal boron nitride with
linearly polarized laser pulses. We show that imperfect recollisions between electron-hole …

The quantum-optical nature of high harmonic generation

A Gorlach, O Neufeld, N Rivera, O Cohen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extremely nonlinear effect generating coherent
broadband radiation and pulse durations reaching attosecond timescales. Conventional …

High-harmonic generation in Mott insulators

Y Murakami, M Eckstein, P Werner - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Using Floquet dynamical mean-field theory, we study the high-harmonic generation in the
time-periodic steady states of wide-gap Mott insulators under ac driving. In the strong-field …

Reciprocal-space-trajectory perspective on high-harmonic generation in solids

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, T Huang, Q Zhang, M Lein, P Lu - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We revisit the mechanism of high-harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by comparing
HHG in laser fields with different ellipticities but a constant maximum amplitude. It is shown …