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 …

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 …

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 …

Anomalous temperature dependence of high-harmonic generation in Mott insulators

Y Murakami, K Uchida, A Koga, K Tanaka, P Werner - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We reveal the crucial effect of strong spin-charge coupling on high-harmonic generation
(HHG) in Mott insulators. In a system with antiferromagnetic correlations, the HHG signal is …

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 …

Determining the optimum thickness for high harmonic generation from nanoscale thin films: An ab initio computational study

S Yamada, K Yabana - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate high harmonic generation (HHG) from silicon thin films with
thicknesses from a few atomic layers to a few hundreds of nanometers, to determine the …

Effect of the interference between interband currents on the crystal harmonic spectra

Y Qiao, J Chen, Y Huo, H Liang, R Yu, J Chen, W Liu… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
By numerically solving the semiconductor Bloch equation, we study the high-order harmonic
emission spectrum of a MgO crystal under the interaction of a linearly polarized laser pulse …

Real-space perspective on dephasing in solid-state high harmonic generation

GG Brown, Á Jiménez-Galán, REF Silva, M Ivanov - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
We develop and demonstrate a fully real-space perspective on high harmonic generation
(HHG) in crystals. Due to the Wannier-Stark localization induced on subcycle timescales in …

Proposal for high-energy cutoff extension of optical harmonics of solid materials using the example of a one-dimensional ZnO crystal

Y Lang, Z Peng, J Liu, Z Zhao, S Ghimire - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We propose a novel approach based on the subcycle injection of carriers to extend the high-
energy cutoff in solid-state high harmonics. The mechanism is first examined by employing …

Numerical discreteness and dephasing in high-harmonic calculations in solids

M Kolesik, JV Moloney - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The issue of quantum dephasing in solids subjected to strong, off-resonant excitation
continues to challenge our current understanding of nonperturbative extreme nonlinear …