Analog simulation of high-harmonic generation in atoms

The demanding experimental access to the ultrafast dynamics of materials challenges our understanding of their electronic response to applied strong laser fields. For this purpose, trapped ultracold atoms with highly controllable potentials have become an enabling tool to describe phenomena in a sce...

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Autores: Argüello Luengo, Javier|||0000-0001-5627-8907, Rivera Deán, Javier, Stammer, Philipp Maximilian, Maxwell, Andrew, Weld, David M., Ciappina, Marcelo Fabian, Lewenstein, Maciej
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/404680
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/404680
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.010328
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Simulation methods
Atoms
Simulació, Mètodes de
Àtoms
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Física de partícules
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Sumario:The demanding experimental access to the ultrafast dynamics of materials challenges our understanding of their electronic response to applied strong laser fields. For this purpose, trapped ultracold atoms with highly controllable potentials have become an enabling tool to describe phenomena in a scenario in which some effects are more easily accessible and 12 orders of magnitude slower. In this work, we introduce a mapping between the parameters of attoscience platforms and atomic cloud simulators and propose an experimental protocol to access the emission spectrum of high-harmonic generation, a regime that has so far been elusive to cold-atom simulation. As we illustrate, the benchmark offered by these simulators can provide new insights into the conversion efficiency of extended and short nuclear potentials, as well as the response to applied elliptical polarized fields or ultrashort few-cycle pulses.