Ultrafast high-harmonic spectroscopy of solids

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, SRU Haque, S Ghimire - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
High-harmonic spectroscopy, an ultrafast all-optical technique initially conceptualized in
atomic and molecular systems, has now emerged as a powerful platform for studying 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 …

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 …

Following the nonthermal phase transition in niobium dioxide by time-resolved harmonic spectroscopy

Z Nie, L Guery, EB Molinero, P Juergens… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Photoinduced phase transitions in correlated materials promise diverse applications from
ultrafast switches to optoelectronics. Resolving those transitions and possible metastable …

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 …

Light-wave-controlled Haldane model in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

S Mitra, Á Jiménez-Galán, M Aulich, M Neuhaus… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, the stacking and twisting of atom-thin structures with matching crystal
symmetry has provided a unique way to create new superlattice structures in which new …

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 …

Revealing the interplay between strong field selection rules and crystal symmetries

AJ Uzan-Narovlansky, G Orenstein, S Shames… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Symmetries are ubiquitous in condensed matter physics, playing an important role in the
appearance of different phases of matter. Nonlinear light matter interactions serve as a …

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 …

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 …