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强Laser场下位移矢量在非中心对称拓扑绝缘体高次谐波产生中的作用

The Role of Shift Vector in High-Harmonic Generation from Non-Centrosymmetric Topological Insulators under Strong Laser Fields

Chen Qian, Chao Yu, Shicheng Jiang, Tan Zhang, Jiacheng Gao, Shang Shi, Hanqi Pi, Hongming Weng, Ruifeng Lu

摘要:

高次谐波作为一种获得新的极紫外光源和探测电子性质的有效途径,在理论和实验上都得到了积极的发展。在缺乏反转对称性的固体中,当电子经历非绝热跃迁时,发生定向电荷移位,其特征在于移位矢量,其测量光激发电子和空穴的实空间移位。首次揭示了在强激光场作用下电子三步模型的实空间隧穿机制中,位移矢量起着重要的作用。由于位移矢量是由相关波函数的拓扑性质决定的,我们期望HHG及其贡献可以为非中心对称拓扑绝缘体(TI)的能带拓扑提供直接的知识。在Kane-Mele模型和实际材料BiTeI中,我们发现在正常绝缘体和拓扑绝缘体之间的拓扑相变过程中,当能带反转时,位移矢量发生反转。在振荡强激光场中,位移矢量的反转导致高次谐波的辐射时间完全相反。这使得HHG成为一种可行的全光强场方法来直接识别非中心对称TI中的带反转。

英文摘要:

As a promising avenue to obtain new extreme ultraviolet light source and detect electronic properties, high-harmonic generation (HHG) has been actively developed in both theory and experiment. In solids lacking inversion symmetry, when electrons undergo a nonadiabatic transition, a directional charge shift occurs and is characterized by shift vector, which measures the real-space shift of the photoexcited electron and hole. For the first time, we have revealed that shift vector plays prominent roles in the real-space tunneling mechanism of three-step model for electrons under strong laser fields. Since shift vector is determined by the topological properties of related wave functions, we expect HHG with its contribution can provide direct knowledge on the band topology in noncentrosymmetric topological insulators (TIs). In both Kane-Mele model and realistic material BiTeI, we have found that the shift vector reverses when band inversion happens during the topological phase transition between normal and topological insulators. Under oscillating strong laser fields, the reversal of shift vector leads to completely opposite radiation time of high-order harmonics. This makes HHG a feasible all-optical strong-field method to directly identify the band inversion in non-centrosymmetric TIs.

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