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 …

Lightwave electronics in condensed matter

M Borsch, M Meierhofer, R Huber, M Kira - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Key properties of quantum materials stem from dynamic interaction chains that connect
stable electronic quasiparticles through short-lived coherences, which are difficult to control …

Laser picoscopy of valence electrons in solids

H Lakhotia, HY Kim, M Zhan, S Hu, S Meng… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Valence electrons contribute a small fraction of the total electron density of materials, but
they determine their essential chemical, electronic and optical properties. Strong laser fields …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear clocks for testing fundamental physics

E Peik, T Schumm, MS Safronova… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The low-energy, long-lived isomer in 229 Th, first studied in the 1970s as an exotic feature in
nuclear physics, continues to inspire a multidisciplinary community of physicists. It has …

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 …

Control of the electron dynamics in solid-state high harmonic generation on ultrafast time scales by a polarization-skewed laser pulse

X Song, S Yang, G Wang, J Lin, L Wang, T Meier… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Since high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from atoms depends sensitively on the
polarization of the driving laser field, the polarization gating (PG) technique was developed …

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 …

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 …

Effect of transition dipole phase on high-order-harmonic generation in solid materials

S Jiang, H Wei, J Chen, C Yu, R Lu, CD Lin - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
High-order harmonic spectra from solid materials driven by single-color multicycle laser
fields sometimes contain even harmonics. In this work we attribute the appearance of even …

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 …