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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.177401
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- Villum-Kann Rasmussen (VKR) center of excellence QUSCOPE-Quantum Scale Optical Processes
- Villum Fonden [00007335] Funding Source: researchfish
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High-harmonic generation in the two topological phases of a finite, one-dimensional, periodic structure is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent density functional theory approach. For harmonic photon energies smaller than the band gap, the harmonic yield is found to differ by up to 14 orders of magnitude for the two topological phases. This giant topological effect is explained by the degree of destructive interference in the harmonic emission of all valence-band (and edge-state) electrons, which strongly depends on whether or not topological edge states are present. The combination of strong-field laser physics with topological condensed matter opens up new possibilities to electronically control strong-field-based light or particle sources or-conversely-to steer by all optical means topological electronics.
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