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Analytical WKB theory for high-harmonic generation and its application to massive Dirac electrons (2105.12446v2)

Published 26 May 2021 in cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall, hep-ph, physics.optics, and quant-ph

Abstract: We propose an analytical approach to high-harmonic generation (HHG) for nonperturbative low-frequency and high-intensity fields based on the (Jeffreys-)Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation. By properly taking into account Stokes phenomena of WKB solutions, we obtain wavefunctions that systematically include the repetitive dynamics of production and acceleration of electron-hole pairs and quantum interference due to phase accumulation between different pair production times (St\"{u}ckelberg phase). Using the obtained wavefunctions without relying on any phenomenological assumptions, we explicitly compute electric current (including intra- and inter-band contributions) as the source of HHG for a massive Dirac system in (1+1)-dimensions under an ac electric field. We demonstrate that the WKB approximation agrees well with numerical results obtained by solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation and point out that the quantum interference is important in HHG. We also predict in the deep nonperturbative regime that (1) harmonic intensities oscillate with respect to electric-field amplitude $E_0$ and frequency $\Omega$, with a period determined by the St\"{u}ckelberg phase; (2) the cutoff order of HHG is determined by $2eE_0/\hbar \Omega2$, with $e$ being the electron charge; and that (3) non-integer harmonics, controlled by the St\"{u}ckelberg phase, appear as a transient effect. Our WKB theory is particularly suited for a parameter regime, where the Keldysh parameter $\gamma=(\Delta/2)\Omega/eE_0$, with $\Delta$ being the gap size, is small. This parameter regime corresponds to intense lasers in the terahertz regime for realistic massive Dirac materials. Our analysis implies that the so-called HHG plateau can be observed at the terahertz frequency within the current technology.

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