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 …

Tunable non-integer high-harmonic generation in a topological insulator

CP Schmid, L Weigl, P Grössing, V Junk, C Gorini… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
When intense lightwaves accelerate electrons through a solid, the emerging high-order
harmonic (HH) radiation offers key insights into the material,,,,,,,,,–. Sub-optical-cycle …

Build-up and dephasing of Floquet–Bloch bands on subcycle timescales

S Ito, M Schüler, M Meierhofer, S Schlauderer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Strong light fields have created opportunities to tailor novel functionalities of solids,,,–.
Floquet–Bloch states can form under periodic driving of electrons and enable exotic …

Light-induced valleytronics in pristine graphene

MS Mrudul, Á Jiménez-Galán, M Ivanov, G Dixit - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electrons in two-dimensional hexagonal materials have an extra degree of freedom, the
valley pseudospin, that can be used to encode and process quantum information. Valley …

Role of the transition dipole amplitude and phase on the generation of odd and even high-order harmonics in crystals

S Jiang, J Chen, H Wei, C Yu, R Lu, CD Lin - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Since the first observation of odd and even high-order harmonics generated from ZnO
crystals in 2011, the dependence of the harmonic yields on the orientation of the laser …

Attosecond optoelectronic field measurement in solids

S Sederberg, D Zimin, S Keiber, F Siegrist… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The sub-cycle interaction of light and matter is one of the key frontiers of inquiry made
accessible by attosecond science. Here, we show that when light excites a pair of charge …

Propagation induced dephasing in semiconductor high-harmonic generation

I Kilen, M Kolesik, J Hader, JV Moloney, U Huttner… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The influence of propagation on the nonperturbative high-harmonic features in long-
wavelength strong pulse excited semiconductors is studied using a fully microscopic …

SALMON: Scalable ab-initio light–matter simulator for optics and nanoscience

M Noda, SA Sato, Y Hirokawa, M Uemoto… - Computer Physics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract SALMON (Scalable Ab-initio Light–Mattersimulator for Optics and Nanoscience,
http://salmon-tddft. jp) is a software package for the simulation of electron dynamics and …

High order harmonic generation in solids: a review on recent numerical methods

C Yu, S Jiang, R Lu - Advances in Physics: X, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Interaction of intense lasers with solid materials offers an alternative way to achieve high-
order harmonic generation (HHG). Since the underlying mechanisms of the harmonic …