S02 - Strong-field lightwave electronics in solids

Project description

In project S02, we will investigate the possibility of directly controlling electrons in solids with electric fields of intense laser pulses, which opens up routes for developing lightwave-driven electronics at petahertz rates. Progress along this route requires the understanding of intense laser-solid interactions on sub-cycle time-scale. We will  use of the valley degree of freedom of crystals and the electronic coherence to perform elementary operations at the few-femtosecond time scale. We will apply the highly nonlinear optical response and machine learning to write and read-out the information in solids and to resolve electron dynamics on sub-femtosecond and sub-angstrom scale.

Cooperation projects

S01, S03, S04, S05, S06, W01, W02, W04, W05, W07

Publications

  • Real-space perspective on dephasing in solid-state high harmonic generation
    G.G. Brown, A. Jiménez-Galán, F. Silva and M. Ivanov
    Phys. Rev. Research 6(4), 043005 (2024)
     
  • Chiral topological light for detection of robust enantiosensitive observables
    N. Mayer, D. Ayuso, P. Decleva, M. Khokhlova, E. Pisanty, M. Ivanov, and O. Smirnova
    Nat. Photon. 18, 1155-1160, (2024)
  • Ultrafast dephasing in solid-state high harmonic generation: macroscopic origin revealed by real-space dynamics [Invited]
    G.G. Brown, A. Jiménez-Galán, R.E.F. Silva, and M. Ivanov
    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41(6), B40-B46 (2024)
     
  • Valleytronics in bulk MoS2 with a topologic optical field
    I. Tyulnev, A. Jiménez-Galán, J. Poborska, L. Vamos, P.S.J. Russell, F. Tani, O. Smirnova, M. Ivanov, R.E.F. Silva and J. Biegert
    Nature 628, 746–751 (2024)
     
  • Symmetry-aware deep neural networks for high harmonic spectroscopy in solids
    N.D. Klimkin, A. Jiménez-Galán, R.E.F. Silva and M. Ivanov
    Opt. Express 31(12), 20559-20571 (2023)
     
  • Coherent control of symmetry breaking in transverse-field Ising chains using few-cycle pulses
    N.D. Klimkin, A. Rubtsov and M. Ivanov 
    Nanophotonics 12(14), 2905-2911, (2023)
     
  • Attosecond field emission
    H. Y. Kim, M. Garg, S. Mandal, L. Seiffert, T. Fennel and E. Goulielmakis
    Nature 613, 662-666 (2023)
     
  • Petahertz-scale spectral broadening and few-cycle compression of Yb:KGW laser pulses in a pressurized, gas-filled hollow-core fiber
    Z. Pi, H. Y. Kim and E. Goulielmakis
    Opt. Lett. 47(22), 5865-5868 (2022)
     
  • High harmonic generation in condensed matter
    E. Goulielmakis and T. Brabec
    Nat. Photonics 16(6), 411-421 (2022)

Project leaders

Prof. Eleftherios Goulielmakis
Phone: +49 (0)381 498 6800
Email: eleftherios.goulielmakisuni-rostockde

Prof. Mikhail (Misha) Ivanov
Phone: +49 (0)30 6392 1210
Email: mikhail.ivanovmbi-berlinde

Institutions

University of Rostock
Institute of Physics
Albert-Einstein-Str. 23
18059 Rostock

Max Born Institute
Department A
Max Born Str. 2A
12489 Berlin