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 …

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 …

Photon-statistics force in ultrafast electron dynamics

M Even Tzur, M Birk, A Gorlach, M Krüger, I Kaminer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In strong-field physics and attosecond science, intense light induces ultrafast electron
dynamics. Such ultrafast dynamics of electrons in matter is at the core of phenomena such …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical insights into ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials

M Guan, D Chen, S Hu, H Zhao, P You, S Meng - Ultrafast science, 2022 - spj.science.org
The last few decades have witnessed the extraordinary advances in theoretical and
experimental tools, which have enabled the manipulation and monitoring of ultrafast …

Structure gauges and laser gauges for the semiconductor Bloch equations in high-order harmonic generation in solids

L Yue, MB Gaarde - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The semiconductor Bloch equations (SBEs) are routinely used for simulations of strong-field
laser-matter interactions in condensed matter. In systems without inversion or time-reversal …

Gate-tunable quantum pathways of high harmonic generation in graphene

S Cha, M Kim, Y Kim, S Choi, S Kang, H Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Under strong laser fields, electrons in solids radiate high-harmonic fields by travelling
through quantum pathways in Bloch bands in the sub-laser-cycle timescales. Understanding …

Probing electron-hole coherence in strongly driven 2D materials using high-harmonic generation

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, AC Johnson, F Liu, TF Heinz… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Under strong electromagnetic excitation, electron–hole (eh) pairs may be generated in
solids, which are subsequently driven to high energy and high momentum, producing high …

High harmonic generation in solids: particle and wave perspectives

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas-phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a
new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and angstrom spatial …