Electron-correlation induced nonclassicallity of light from high-harmonic generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08942v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:49:59 GMT
• Title: Electron-correlation induced nonclassicallity of light from high-harmonic generation
• Authors: Christian Saugbjerg Lange, Thomas Hansen, Lars Bojer Madsen
• Abstract summary: We study the effect of electron-electron correlations on the quantum state of the light emitted from high-harmonic generation (HHG) We analytically find that the emitted light is in a classical coherent state. In the Mott-insulating phase, a consideration of the photon statistics and squeezing of the emitted photonic state shows that the inter-Hubbard-subband current generates nonclassical light.
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• Abstract: We study the effect of electron-electron correlations on the quantum state of the light emitted from high-harmonic generation (HHG). The quantum state of the emitted light is obtained by using a fully quantum mechanical description of both the optical modes as well as the electronic system. This is different from the usual semiclassical description of HHG, which only treats the electronic target system quantum mechanically. Using the generic Fermi-Hubbard model, the strength of the electron-electron correlation can be treated as a parameter enabling us to investigate the two limiting cases of a completely uncorrelated phase and a correlated Mott-insulating phase. In the completely uncorrelated phase, the model reduces to a single-band tight-binding model in which only intraband currents contribute to the spectrum. In this limit, we analytically find that the emitted light is in a classical coherent state. In the Mott-insulating phase, a consideration of the photon statistics and squeezing of the emitted photonic state shows that the inter-Hubbard-subband current generates nonclassical light. In this sense, we show that electron-electron correlation can induce the generation of nonclassical states of light.

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