High-Harmonic Generation in Mott Insulators

Abstract

Using Floquet dynamical mean-field theory, we study the high-harmonic generation in the time-periodic steady states of wide-gap Mott insulators under AC driving. In the strong-field regime, the harmonic intensity exhibits multiple plateaus, whose cutoff energies ${\epsilon }_{\mathrm{cut}}=U+m{E}_0$ scale with the Coulomb interaction $U$ and the maximum field strength $E_0$. In this regime, the created doublons and holons are localized because of the strong field and the $m$-th plateau originates from the recombination of $m$-th nearest-neighbor doublon-holon pairs. In the weak-field regime, there is only a single plateau in the intensity, which originates from the recombination of itinerant doublons and holons. Here, ${\epsilon }_{\mathrm{cut}}={\Delta }_{\mathrm{gap}}+\alpha E_0$, with ${\Delta }_{\mathrm{gap}}$ the band gap and $\alpha >1$. We demonstrate that the Mott insulator shows a stronger high-harmonic intensity than a semiconductor model with the same dispersion as the Mott insulator, even if the semiconductor bands are broadened by impurity scattering to mimic the incoherent scattering in the Mott insulator.

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