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 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 …

High-harmonic generation in Weyl semimetal β-WP2 crystals

YY Lv, J Xu, S Han, C Zhang, Y Han, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As a quantum material, Weyl semimetal has a series of electronic-band-structure features,
including Weyl points with left and right chirality and corresponding Berry curvature, which …

Nonlinear photonics with metasurfaces

P Vabishchevich, Y Kivshar - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear optics is a well-established field of research that traditionally relies on the
interaction of light with macroscopic nonlinear media over distances significantly greater …

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 …

High-harmonic generation approaching the quantum critical point of strongly correlated systems

C Shao, H Lu, X Zhang, C Yu, T Tohyama, R Lu - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic
generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the …

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 …

Role of shift vector in high-harmonic generation from noncentrosymmetric topological insulators under strong laser fields

C Qian, C Yu, S Jiang, T Zhang, J Gao, S Shi, H Pi… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
As a promising avenue to obtain a new extreme ultraviolet light source and detect electronic
properties, high-harmonic generation (HHG) has been actively developed in both theory and …

Recent trends in high-order harmonic generation in solids

J Park, A Subramani, S Kim, MF Ciappina - Advances in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High-order harmonic generation in solids, the nonlinear up-conversion of coherent radiation
resulting from the interaction of a strong and short laser pulse with a solid sample, has come …

High harmonic generation in crystals using maximally localized Wannier functions

REF Silva, F Martín, M Ivanov - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
In this work, the nonlinear optical response, and in particular, the high harmonic generation
of semiconductors, is addressed by using the Wannier gauge. One of the main problems in …