Recent progress of the computational 2D materials database (C2DB)

MN Gjerding, A Taghizadeh, A Rasmussen, S Ali… - 2D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Computational 2D Materials Database (C2DB) is a highly curated open
database organising a wealth of computed properties for more than 4000 atomically thin two …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the theory of bulk photovoltaic effect

Z Dai, AM Rappe - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) occurs in solids with broken inversion symmetry and
refers to DC generation due to uniform illumination, without the need of heterostructures or …

[HTML][HTML] GPAW: An open Python package for electronic structure calculations

JJ Mortensen, AH Larsen, M Kuisma… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We review the GPAW open-source Python package for electronic structure calculations.
GPAW is based on the projector-augmented wave method and can solve the self-consistent …

Consequences of time-reversal-symmetry breaking in the light-matter interaction: Berry curvature, quantum metric, and diabatic motion

T Holder, D Kaplan, B Yan - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Nonlinear optical response is well studied in the context of semiconductors and has gained
a renaissance in studies of topological materials in the recent decade. So far it mainly deals …

[HTML][HTML] Pure spin photocurrent in non-centrosymmetric crystals: bulk spin photovoltaic effect

H Xu, H Wang, J Zhou, J Li - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Spin current generators are critical components for spintronics-based information
processing. In this work, we theoretically and computationally investigate the bulk spin …

Imperfect recollisions in high-harmonic generation in solids

L Yue, MB Gaarde - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We theoretically investigate high-harmonic generation in hexagonal boron nitride with
linearly polarized laser pulses. We show that imperfect recollisions between electron-hole …

Ab initio calculation of the shift photocurrent by Wannier interpolation

J Ibañez-Azpiroz, SS Tsirkin, I Souza - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We describe and implement a first-principles algorithm based on maximally localized
Wannier functions for calculating the shift-current response of piezoelectric crystals in the …

Structure gauges and laser gauges for the semiconductor Bloch equations in high-order harmonic generation in solids

L Yue, MB Gaarde - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The semiconductor Bloch equations (SBEs) are routinely used for simulations of strong-field
laser-matter interactions in condensed matter. In systems without inversion or time-reversal …

[HTML][HTML] Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor

J Shi, H Xu, C Heide, C HuangFu, C Xia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical materials possess wide applications, ranging from terahertz and mid-
infrared detection to energy harvesting. Recently, the correlations between nonlinear optical …