By using the Floquet eigenstates, we derive a formula to calculate the high-harmonic components of the electric current (HHC) in the setup where a monochromatic laser field is turned on at some time. On the basis of this formulation, we study the HHC spectrum of electrons on a one-dimensional chain with the staggered potential to study the effect of multiple sites in the unit cell such as the systems with charge density wave (CDW) order. With the help of the solution for the Floquet eigenstates, we analytically show that two plateaus of different origins emerge in the HHC spectrum. The widths of these plateaus are both proportional to the field amplitude, but inversely proportional to the laser frequency and its square, respectively. We also show numerically that multi-step plateaus appear when both the field amplitude and the staggered potential are strong. arXiv:1807.02525v2 [cond-mat.other]
We consider noninteracting electrons coupled to laser fields, and study perturbatively the effects of the lattice potential involving disorder on the harmonic components of the electric current, which are sources of high-order harmonic generation (HHG). By using the Floquet-Keldysh Green functions, we show that each harmonic component consists of the coherent and the incoherent parts, which arise respectively from the coherent and the incoherent scatterings by the local ion potentials. As the disorder increases, the coherent part decreases, the incoherent one increases, and the total harmonic component of the current first decreases rapidly and then approaches a nonzero value. Our results highlight the importance of the periodicity of crystals, which builds up the Bloch states extending over the solid. This is markedly different from the traditional HHG in atomic gases, where the positions of individual atoms are irrelevant.
Nonequilibrium steady states (NESSs) in periodically driven
dissipative quantum systems are vital in Floquet engineering. We develop
a general theory for high-frequency drives with Lindblad-type
dissipation to characterize and analyze NESSs. This theory is based on
the high-frequency (HF) expansion with linear algebraic numerics and
without numerically solving the time evolution. Using this theory, we
show that NESSs can deviate from the Floquet-Gibbs state depending on
the dissipation type. We also show the validity and usefulness of the
HF-expansion approach in concrete models for a diamond nitrogen-vacancy
(NV) center, a kicked open XY spin chain with topological phase
transition under boundary dissipation, and the Heisenberg spin chain in
a circularly-polarized magnetic field under bulk dissipation. In
particular, for the isotropic Heisenberg chain, we propose the
dissipation-assisted terahertz (THz) inverse Faraday effect in quantum
magnets. Our theoretical framework applies to various time-periodic
Lindblad equations that are currently under active research.
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