Ultrafast giant enhancement of second harmonic generation in a strongly correlated cobaltite

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Main Authors: Cui, Yuchen, Liu, Qiaomei, Wu, Qiong, Xu, Shuxiang, Huang, Junhan, Wang, Hao, Li, Rongsheng, Han, Shanshan, Xu, Wei, Du, Li, Lu, Ming, Zhang, Chunmei, Wu, Shangfei, Wang, Xinbo, Dong, Tao, Yue, Li, Wu, Dong, Wang, Nanlin
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author Cui, Yuchen
Liu, Qiaomei
Wu, Qiong
Xu, Shuxiang
Huang, Junhan
Wang, Hao
Li, Rongsheng
Han, Shanshan
Xu, Wei
Du, Li
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Chunmei
Wu, Shangfei
Wang, Xinbo
Dong, Tao
Yue, Li
Wu, Dong
Wang, Nanlin
author_facet Cui, Yuchen
Liu, Qiaomei
Wu, Qiong
Xu, Shuxiang
Huang, Junhan
Wang, Hao
Li, Rongsheng
Han, Shanshan
Xu, Wei
Du, Li
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Chunmei
Wu, Shangfei
Wang, Xinbo
Dong, Tao
Yue, Li
Wu, Dong
Wang, Nanlin
contents We report the observation of ultrafast photoinduced giant enhancement of optical second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency in cobaltite YbBaCo4O7. Upon femtosecond pumping at energies above the band gap, the system exhibits an ultrafast enhancement in SHG intensity, reaching up to 60 % higher than the initial value, then decays into a long-lived excited state maintaining the enhancement. The enhancement scales linearly with pump fluence but shows no dependence on pump polarization. A pure electronic process sets in within the first ~200 fs and is accompanied by a pronounced anisotropic amplification of nonlinear susceptibility. We propose this anomalous SHG enhancement originates from ultrafast electronic band renormalization arising from dynamical modification of electron correlations. Our findings open a new avenue for ultrafast optical control of nonlinear properties in strongly correlated materials.
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spellingShingle Ultrafast giant enhancement of second harmonic generation in a strongly correlated cobaltite
Cui, Yuchen
Liu, Qiaomei
Wu, Qiong
Xu, Shuxiang
Huang, Junhan
Wang, Hao
Li, Rongsheng
Han, Shanshan
Xu, Wei
Du, Li
Lu, Ming
Zhang, Chunmei
Wu, Shangfei
Wang, Xinbo
Dong, Tao
Yue, Li
Wu, Dong
Wang, Nanlin
Strongly Correlated Electrons
We report the observation of ultrafast photoinduced giant enhancement of optical second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency in cobaltite YbBaCo4O7. Upon femtosecond pumping at energies above the band gap, the system exhibits an ultrafast enhancement in SHG intensity, reaching up to 60 % higher than the initial value, then decays into a long-lived excited state maintaining the enhancement. The enhancement scales linearly with pump fluence but shows no dependence on pump polarization. A pure electronic process sets in within the first ~200 fs and is accompanied by a pronounced anisotropic amplification of nonlinear susceptibility. We propose this anomalous SHG enhancement originates from ultrafast electronic band renormalization arising from dynamical modification of electron correlations. Our findings open a new avenue for ultrafast optical control of nonlinear properties in strongly correlated materials.
title Ultrafast giant enhancement of second harmonic generation in a strongly correlated cobaltite
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01826