arXiv:2312.09668

Two-particle correlation effects on nonlinear optical responses in the 1d interacting Rice-Mele model

Akira Kofuji, Robert Peters

Published Dec 15, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

Nonlinear responses in crystalline solids are attracting a great deal of attention because of exciting phenomena, such as the bulk photovoltaic effect in noncentrosymmetric crystals and the third harmonic generation related to Higgs modes in superconductors, and their potential applicability to electronic devices. Recently, nonlinear responses have also been studied in strongly correlated electron systems. Experimental evidence has revealed that correlations play a significant role in nonlinear responses. However, most theoretical calculations only consider excitonic effects or involve numerically demanding approaches, making interpreting the results challenging. In this paper, we adopt another approach, which is based on real-time evolution using the correlation expansion method. Particularly, we focus on the 1d interacting Rice-Mele model. We analyze the impact of the density-density interaction on the linear and nonlinear conductivities and demonstrate that two-particle correlations beyond the mean-field level enhance second-order nonlinear responses, especially the second harmonic generation, while the linear response is not strongly affected. Furthermore, by decomposing the current into a one-particle contribution and six two-particle contributions, we show that the ``biexciton transition" term and its nonlinear oscillations is the most dominant two-particle contribution to the nonlinear response. In addition, we also show that the intercell charge-charge correlation is strongly enhanced when the system is driven with the frequency corresponding to the excitonic peak and can even exceed the intracell correlation. This implies the possibility of manipulating two-particle correlations with external fields.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.09668

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