Emerging ultrafast techniques for studying quantum materials

A Zong, BR Nebgen, SC Lin, JA Spies… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In quantum materials, emergent functional properties resulting from strong correlations or
electronic topology offer opportunities for new applications. Over the past decade, ultrafast …

Strong–laser–field physics, non–classical light states and quantum information science

U Bhattacharya, T Lamprou, AS Maxwell… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong–laser–field physics is a research direction that relies on the use of high-power lasers
and has led to fascinating achievements ranging from relativistic particle acceleration to …

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 …

Parametric nonlinear optics with layered materials and related heterostructures

O Dogadov, C Trovatello, B Yao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nonlinear optics is of crucial importance in several fields of science and technology with
applications in frequency conversion, entangled‐photon generation, self‐referencing of …

High-Order Harmonic Generation and Its Unconventional Scaling Law in the Mott-Insulating

K Uchida, G Mattoni, S Yonezawa, F Nakamura… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Competition and cooperation among orders is at the heart of many-body physics in strongly
correlated materials and leads to their rich physical properties. It is crucial to investigate …

Anomalous temperature dependence of high-harmonic generation in Mott insulators

Y Murakami, K Uchida, A Koga, K Tanaka, P Werner - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We reveal the crucial effect of strong spin-charge coupling on high-harmonic generation
(HHG) in Mott insulators. In a system with antiferromagnetic correlations, the HHG signal is …

High-harmonic generation approaching the quantum critical point of strongly correlated systems

C Shao, H Lu, X Zhang, C Yu, T Tohyama, R Lu - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic
generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the …

Probing phonon dynamics with multidimensional high harmonic carrier-envelope-phase spectroscopy

O Neufeld, J Zhang, U De Giovannini… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We explore pump-probe high harmonic generation (HHG) from monolayer hexagonal-boron-
nitride, where a terahertz pump excites coherent optical phonons that are subsequently …

High-harmonic spectroscopy of quantum phase transitions in a high-Tc superconductor

J Alcalà, U Bhattacharya, J Biegert… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We report on the nonlinear optical signatures of quantum phase transitions in the high-
temperature superconductor YBCO, observed through high harmonic generation. While the …

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 …