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 …

Observation of light-driven band structure via multiband high-harmonic spectroscopy

AJ Uzan-Narovlansky, Á Jiménez-Galán… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Intense light–matter interactions have revolutionized our ability to probe and manipulate
quantum systems at sub-femtosecond timescales, opening routes to the all-optical control of …

Attosecond technology (ies) and science

J Biegert, F Calegari, N Dudovich… - Journal of Physics B …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Since 2001 and the first demonstrations of the feasibility of generating and measuring
attosecond light pulses, attosecond science has developed into a very active and quickly …

Huygens-Fresnel picture for high harmonic generation in solids

L Li, P Lan, X Zhu, P Lu - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
High harmonic generation (HHG) is usually described by the laser-induced recollision of
particlelike electrons, which lies at the heart of attosecond physics and also inspires …

Ultrafast electron dynamics of graphene quantum dots: High harmonic generation

S Gnawali, R Ghimire, KR Magar, SJ Hossaini… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study theoretically nonlinear optical properties of graphene quantum dots placed in a
field of a short and strong linearly polarized optical pulse. We address the problem of high …

Revealing the nonadiabatic tunneling dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation

R Zuo, X Song, S Ben, T Meier, W Yang - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Field-induced tunneling is one of the most fundamental quantum phenomena. In atoms this
process has been successfully explored by attosecond interferometry based on high …

Witnessing nonequilibrium entanglement dynamics in a strongly correlated fermionic chain

DR Baykusheva, MH Kalthoff, D Hofmann… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Many-body entanglement in condensed matter systems can be diagnosed from equilibrium
response functions through the use of entanglement witnesses and operator-specific …

Spectral control of high order harmonics through non-linear propagation effects

M Hussain, S Kaassamani, T Auguste, W Boutu… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
High harmonic generation (HHG) in crystals has revealed a wealth of perspectives such as
all-optical map** of the electronic band structure, ultrafast quantum information, and the …

Higher harmonics and supercontinuum generated from the Kerr response time in different states of matter from a universal electromagnetic model

RR Alfano, SFB Mazhar - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
There is a need for a universal model to describe higher harmonic generation (HHG) in
different states of matter. Based on an electromagnetic model (EM), the generation of odd …