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most citedReciprocal-space-trajectory perspective on high harmonic generation in solids

143 citations · 977 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2025

Complete suppression of the non-dipole drift effect in high harmonic generation

Hailang Wei, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan +1

In high harmonic generation (HHG), non-dipole effects become increasingly significant at long driving wavelengths, as the magnetic field leads to a lateral drift of the continuum e…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

Attosecond All-Optical Retrieval of Valley Polarization via Circular Dichroism in Transient Absorption

Wenqing Li, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan +5

We propose a scheme for retrieving the ultrafast valley polarization (VP) dynamics in two-dimensional hexagonal materials via attosecond circular dichroism (CD) transient absorptio…

physics.optics2024★ 13 cited

Helicity-selected near-circularly polarized attosecond pulses generated from mixed He-Ne gases

Chunyang Zhai, Xiaosong Zhu, Yingbin Li +4

We present and theoretically demonstrate a method for generating helicity-selected near-circularly polarized attosecond pulses in mixed He-Ne gases using bichromatic counter-rotati…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

High-purity valley-polarized currents induced by bichromatic optical fields in two-dimensional materials

Wenqing Li, Xiaosong Zhu, Liang Li +4

Producing currents predominantly from a single valley, namely valley-polarized currents, at optical-cycle timescales is an important aspect of the petahertz valleytronics, yet it r…

physics.optics2023

High Harmonic Generation in Solids: Particle and Wave Perspectives

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Xiaosong Zhu +1

High harmonic generation (HHG) from gas phase atoms (or molecules) has opened up a new frontier in ultrafast optics, where attosecond time resolution and Angstrom spatial resolutio…

physics.optics2020★ 10 cited

Fingerprint of the Interbond Electron Hopping in Second-Order Harmonic Generation

Liang Li, Tengfei Huang, Pengfei Lan +6

We experimentally explore the fingerprint of the microscopic electron dynamics in second-order harmonic generation (SHG). It is shown that the interbond electron hopping induces a…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Strong field induced electron density tide in high harmonic generation from solids

Liang Li, Yinfu Zhang, Pengfei Lan +8

In strong laser fields, the electron density in solids can show up tidal motions caused by the laser ``pulling'' on the electrons, which forms an electron density tide (EDT). Howev…

physics.optics2019★ 54 cited

Molecular rotation movie filmed with high-harmonic generation

Yanqing He, Lixin He, Pengfei Lan +5

Direct imaging of molecular dynamics is a long-standing goal in physics and chemistry. As an emerging tool, high-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) enables accessing molecular dynamics on…

physics.optics2018★ 143 cited

Reciprocal-space-trajectory perspective on high harmonic generation in solids

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Xiaosong Zhu +4

We revisit the mechanism of high harmonic generation (HHG) from solids by comparing HHG in laser fields with different ellipticities but constant maximum amplitude. It is shown tha…

physics.optics2018

High harmonic generation with circularly polarized fields in solid: a quantum trajectory perspective

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Xiaosong Zhu +2

We investigate the high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids driven by laser fields with different ellipticities. The HHG spectra show a two-plateau structure within the energy gap…

physics.optics2018★ 26 cited

Tomography of asymmetric molecular orbitals with one-color inhomogeneous field

Hua Yuan, Lixin He, Feng Wang +4

We demonstrate to image asymmetric molecular orbitals via high-order harmonic generation in a one-color inhomogeneous field. Due to the broken inversion symmetry of the inhomogeneo…

physics.optics2017★ 72 cited

High-order harmonic generation of doped semiconductor

Tengfei Huang, Xiaosong Zhu, Liang Li +3

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in doped semiconductors. The HHG is simulated with the single-electron time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). The resul…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 136 cited

Attosecond probing of nuclear dynamics with trajectory-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy

Pengfei Lan, Marc Ruhmann, Lixin He +8

We report attosecond-scale probing of the laser-induced dynamics in molecules. We apply the method of high-harmonic spectroscopy, where laser-driven recolliding electrons on variou…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 87 cited

Time-dependent population imaging for solid high harmonic generation

Xi Liu, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan +4

We propose an intuitive method, called time-dependent population imaging (TDPI), to map the dynamical processes of high harmonic generation (HHG) in solids by solving the time-depe…

physics.optics2017★ 35 cited

Diffractive molecular orbital tomography

Chunyang Zhai, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan +7

High harmonic generation in the interaction of femtosecond lasers with atoms and molecules opens the path to molecular orbital tomography and to probe the electronic dynamics with…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 35 cited

Scaling law of high harmonic generation in the framework of photon channel

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Lixin He +3

Photon channel perspective on high harmonic generation (HHG) is proposed by quantizing both the driving laser and high harmonics. It is shown that the HHG yield can be expressed as…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 21 cited

Helicity reversion in high harmonic generation driven by bichromatic counterrotating circularly polarized laser fields

Xiaofan Zhang, Liang Li, Xiaosong Zhu +4

We investigate the polarization properties of high harmonics generated with the bichromatic counterrotating circularly polarized (BCCP) laser fields by numerically solving time-dep…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 114 cited

The selection rules of high harmonic generation: the symmetries of molecules and laser fields

Xi Liu, Xiaosong Zhu, Liang Li +4

The selection rules of high harmonic generation (HHG) are investigated using three-dimensional time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). From the harmonic spectra obtained…

physics.atom-ph2016★ 2 cited

Frequency shift in high order harmonic generation from isotopic molecules

Lixin He, Pengfei Lan, Chunyang Zhai +5

We report the first experimental observation of frequency shift in high order harmonic generation (HHG) from isotopic molecules H2 and D2 . It is found that harmonics generated fro…

physics.atom-ph2015

Quenching effect in below-threshold high harmonic generation

Xiaosong Zhu, Xi Liu, Pengfei Lan +4

We theoretically demonstrate the quenching effect in below-threshold high harmonic generation (HHG) by using the time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) and solving the ti…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 10 cited

Probing rotational wave-packet dynamics with the structural minimum in high-order harmonic spectra

Meiyan Qin, Xiaosong Zhu, Yang Li +3

We investigate the alignment-dependent high-order harmonic spectrum generated from nonadiabatically aligned molecules around the first half rotational revival. It is found that the…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 31 cited

Molecular orbital tomography beyond the plane wave approximation

Yang Li, Xiaosong Zhu, Pengfei Lan +3

The use of plane wave approximation in molecular orbital tomography via high-order harmonic generation has been questioned since it was proposed, owing to the fact that it ignores…

physics.atom-ph2013★ 30 cited

Tomographic imaging of asymmetric molecular orbitals with a two-color multicycle laser field

Meiyan Qin, Xiaosong Zhu, Qingbin Zhang +1

We theoretically demonstrate a scheme for tomographic reconstruction of asymmetric molecular orbitals based on high-order harmonic generation with a two-color multicycle laser fiel…

physics.optics2013★ 10 cited

Imprints of the molecular-orbital geometry on the high-harmonic ellipticity

Meiyan Qin, Xiaosong Zhu, Kunlong Liu +2

The influence of the orbital symmetry on the ellipticity of the high-order harmonics is investigated. It is found that the ellipticity maps have distinct shapes for the molecular o…