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High-order harmonic generation in graphene: Nonlinear coupling of intraband and interband transitions

Shunsuke A. Sato1,2,*, Hideki Hirori3, Yasuyuki Sanari3, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu3, and Angel Rubio2,4,†

  • 1Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
  • 2Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 3Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
  • 4Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA

  • *ssato@ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp
  • †angel.rubio@mpsd.mpg.de
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Phys. Rev. B 103, L041408 – Published 29 January, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L041408

Abstract

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al., Science 356, 736 (2017)]. On the basis of a microscopic decomposition of the emitted high-order harmonics, we find that the enhancement in HHG originates from an intricate nonlinear coupling between the intraband and interband transitions that are respectively induced by perpendicular electric field components of the elliptically polarized light. Furthermore, we reveal that contributions from different excitation channels destructively interfere with each other. This finding suggests a path to potentially enhance the HHG by blocking a part of the channels and canceling the destructive interference through band-gap or chemical potential manipulation.

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Phys. Rev. B 103, L041408– Published 29 January, 2021
  • Received 13 October 2020
  • Revised 4 December 2020
  • Accepted 13 January 2021
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