High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a coherent optical process in which the incident photon energy is up-converted to the multiples of its initial energy. In solids, under the influence of a strong laser field, electron-hole (e-h) pairs are generated and subsequently driven to high energy and momentum within a fraction of the optical cycle. These dynamics encode the band structure, including non-trivial topological properties of the source material, through both intraband current and interband polarization, into the high harmonic spectrum. In the course of this process, dephasing between the driven electron and the hole can significantly reduce the HHG efficiency. Here, we exploit this feature and turn it into a measurement of e-h coherence in strongly driven solids. Utilizing a pre-pump pulse, we first photodope monolayer molybdenum disulfide and then examine the HHG induced by an intense infrared pulse. We observe clear suppression of the HH intensity, which becomes more pronounced with increasing order. Based on quantum simulations, we attribute this monotonic order dependence as a signature of ultrafast electron-hole dephasing, which leads to an exponential decay of the inter-band polarization, proportional to the sub-cycle excursion time of the e-h pair. Our results demonstrate the importance of many-body effects, such as density-dependent decoherence in HHG and provide a novel platform to probe electron-hole coherence in strongly driven systems.
Probing of Core Excitons in Solid NaF with Polarization-Selective Attosecond Time-Resolved Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy
University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory（劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室）；University of Regensburg（雷根斯堡大学）；Lund University（隆德大学）
Probing lattice fluctuations using solid-state high-harmonic spectroscopy
Purdue University（普渡大学）；Louisiana State University（路易斯安那州立大学）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Argonne National Laboratory（阿贡国家实验室）；Binghamton University（宾厄姆顿大学）
Probing the Linewidth of the 12.4-keV $^{45}$Sc Isomeric Resonance in Solids by Nuclear Forward Scattering
Argonne National Laboratory（阿贡国家实验室）；Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK)（马克斯·普朗克核物理研究所）；Helmholtz-Institut Jena（耶拿亥姆霍兹研究所）；GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung（GSI重离子研究中心）；Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena（耶拿弗里德里希·席勒大学）；European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility（欧洲X射线自由电子激光设施）；Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY（德国电子同步加速器）
