Floquet DMFT Analysis of High Harmonic Generation in Mott Insulators

Abstract

We study the high harmonic generation (HHG) in Mott insulators using Floquet dynamical meanfield theory (DMFT). We show that the main origin of the HHG in Mott insulators is the doublonholon recombination, and that the character of the HHG spectrum differs depending on the field strength. In the weaker-field regime, the HHG spectrum shows a single plateau as in the HHG from gases, and its cut-off energy ǫ cut scales linearly with the field strength E 0 as ǫ cut = ∆ gap + αE 0 , where ∆ gap is the Mott gap. On the other hand, in the stronger-field regime, multiple plateaus emerge and the m-th cut-off scales as ǫ cut,m = U + mE 0 . We show that this difference originates from the different dynamics of the doublons and holons in the weak-and strong-field regimes. We also comment on the similarities and differences between HHG from Mott insulators and from semiconductors. This proceedings paper complements our recent work, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 057405 (2018), with additional results and analyses.