Ultrafast terahertz emission from emerging symmetry-broken materials

J Pettine, P Padmanabhan, N Sirica… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical spectroscopies are powerful tools for investigating both static material
properties and light-induced dynamics. Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy has …

Resonant second-harmonic generation as a probe of quantum geometry

P Bhalla, K Das, D Culcer, A Agarwal - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Nonlinear responses are actively studied as probes of topology and band geometric
properties of solids. Here, we show that second harmonic generation serves as a probe of …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast investigation and control of Dirac and Weyl semimetals

CP Weber - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Ultrafast experiments using sub-picosecond pulses of light are poised to play an important
role in the study and use of topological materials and, particularly, of the three-dimensional …

High-harmonic generation in graphene under the application of a DC electric current: From perturbative to nonperturbative regime

M Kanega, M Sato - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We theoretically investigate high-harmonic generation (HHG) in honeycomb-lattice
graphene models when subjected to a DC electric field. By integrating the quantum master …

Quantum kinetic theory of nonlinear optical currents: Finite Fermi surface and Fermi sea contributions

P Bhalla, K Das, A Agarwal, D Culcer - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The quantum kinetic framework provides a versatile method for investigating the dynamical
optical and transport currents of crystalline solids. In this paper, starting from the density …

High-order harmonic generation in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry

HK Avetissian, VN Avetisyan, BR Avchyan… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
In this paper the nonlinear interaction of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) with a strong driving
electromagnetic wave field is investigated. In the scope of the structure-gauge-invariant low …

Photocurrent-driven transient symmetry breaking in the Weyl semimetal TaAs

N Sirica, PP Orth, MS Scheurer, YM Dai, MC Lee… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Symmetry plays a central role in conventional and topological phases of matter, making the
ability to optically drive symmetry changes a critical step in developing future technologies …

Charge Conservation beyond Uniformity: Spatially Inhomogeneous Electromagnetic Response in Periodic Solids

RC McKay, F Mahmood, B Bradlyn - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Nonlinear electromagnetic response functions have reemerged as a crucial tool for studying
quantum materials, due to recently appreciated connections between optical response …

Linear and nonlinear optical responses in Kitaev spin liquids

M Kanega, TN Ikeda, M Sato - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We theoretically study THz-light-driven high-harmonic generation (HHG) in the spin-liquid
states of the Kitaev honeycomb model with a magnetostriction coupling between spin and …

Supercurrent-induced topological phase transitions

K Takasan, S Sumita, Y Yanase - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We show that finite current in superconductors can induce topological phase transitions, as
a result of the deformation of the quasiparticle spectrum by a finite center-of-mass (COM) …